Tag: Craig Stein

Posted in Film Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals

Film Review: The Little Mermaid (2023)

DIsney’s live-action remakes continue apace with The Little Mermaid but for little substantive reward “I’m trying to…

Posted in Film Lin-Manuel Miranda

Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

54 years is quite the wait for a sequel but Mary Poppins Returns is full of nostalgic…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Barbican Theatre Blanche McIntyre Chichester Festival Theatre Conor McPherson fosterIANs Hope Theatre Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove LGBTQ+ Lin-Manuel Miranda Martin Sherman Mike Bartlett Musicals National Theatre New Diorama Old Vic Shakespeare Stiles + Drewe Theatre Tony Kushner Top moments

11 of my top moments in a theatre in 2017

As ever, the wait for the end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances has to continue until…

Posted in LGBTQ+ National Theatre Readings Theatre Theatre review

Queer Theatre – a round-up

“There’s nowt so queer as folk” Only about a week behind schedule, I wanted to round up…

Posted in LGBTQ+ National Theatre Readings Theatre

Review: Queer Theatre – Wig Out, National Theatre

  #2 in the National Theatre’s Queer Theatre season of rehearsed readings “Here Where one night can…

Posted in Christopher Marlowe Jamie Lloyd Theatre West End

Review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre

“The hot whore of celebrity” Jon Snow is dead. Isn’t he? I suspect there’ll be a twist…

Posted in Christopher Marlowe Jamie Lloyd Theatre West End

(P)review: Doctor Faustus, Duke of York’s Theatre

“Hell is within”  (As are production spoilers)  As Jamie Lloyd’s Doctor Faustus is currently previewing but doesn’t open…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+

Film Review: Soft Lad (2015)

“It’s your choice to play happy families” Produced, written and directed by Leon Lopez, Soft Lad is…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #41

Working Lunge from Ross Aitken on Vimeo. Tania Emery’s Working Lunge may only be short but it…