In June 1988, Bob Dylan set off on what has become known as ‘The Never-Ending Tour’ and apart from a break due to the pandemic, it’s still going 33 years later. Well, that title could also be applied to the Kander & Ebb musical Chicago which seems to have been on tour in the UK…
THE ONE YOU WANT. THE ONE YOU NEED. OH YES INDEED! Grittier and more electrifying than ever before, the world’s best-loved musical makes a triumphant return to London’s Dominion Theatre. After a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can…
If you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s like this reviewer, then you probably would have gone to the kind of awful parties depicted in Mike Leigh’s 1977 play Abigail’s Party but more importantly, you probably would have watched the TV version (there were only three channels at the time) which was shown…
Producer Runaway Entertainment is delighted to announce the first casting news for the transfer of Danny Robins’ edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller 2:22 – A Ghost Story for a new season at the Gielgud Theatre. Stephanie Beatriz will play the role of Lauren. Stephanie Beatriz stars as the lead character Mirabel in Disney’s forthcoming animated motion picture…
This is the musical history-mix that many of my friends have raved about, and obsessively re-booked for, telling me there is no way I won’t fall in love with the good time vibes of this show. I’m as suggestible as I am sceptical – so I went along hoping it wasn’t going to be one…
Confession: I was lucky enough to have seen the original American touring production of ‘Night, Mother in the mid-80s shortly after it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, with Kathy Bates’ Broadway understudy, Phyllis Somerville, in the lead as Jessie Cates. Possibly an inappropriate choice for someone as young as I was at the time (not…
