Tag: Ian Bartholomew

Posted in Film

Film Review: Wonka (2023)

With more than a little debt to the aesthetics of Paddington, Timothée Chalamet leads musical romp Wonka…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre TV West End

TV Review: Kipps, the new Half A Sixpence Musical

The musical formerly known as Half A Sixpence re-emerges on TV as Kipps but not quite enough…

Posted in Spooks TV Zinnie Harris

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 5

Full of shocks that actually mean something, Series 5 of Spooks is one of its absolute best…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Take Flight (2007 Original Cast Recording)

  “What is this impulse that drives otherwise sane men to attempt the impossible?”  Take Flight was…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stiles + Drewe

Album Review: Half A Sixpence (2016 London Cast Recording)

  “Um-tiddly-um-pum-um-pum-pum Stick it in your fam’ly album” With Half A Sixpence due to close in the…

Posted in Albums Alexander S Bermange Music

Album Review: Wit and Whimsy – Songs by Alexander S Bermange

“If only I were famous from the telly” Across its two discs and twenty-three tracks, there’s an…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Annie Baker Florian Zeller Jack Thorne James Graham Kenneth Branagh Lee Hall Musicals Nick Payne Olivier Awards Simon Stone Tennessee Williams Theatre Theatre awards Tom Stoppard West End

2017 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Palace Elegy – Donmar Warehouse The Flick…

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2017 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor in a Play, sponsored by Radisson Blu Edwardian Ian Hallard for The Boys in the Band…

Posted in Albums Broadway Cast Recordings Curtain Up Show Album of the Year Cyndi Lauper Duncan Sheik Lin-Manuel Miranda Music Musicals Not-London Sara Bareilles Stiles + Drewe Terry Johnson Theatre awards

The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 nominees

Best UK Cast Recording American Psycho – Original London Cast Recording Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined –…