Tag: Ian Conningham

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 Doctor Who LGBTQ+ Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat TV

Countdown to new Who: Doctor Who Series 9

“Time will tell, it always does” Phew, the Doctor Who rewatch comes to an end with the…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Cast Recordings Music

Album Review: Stephen Ward (2013 Original Cast Recording)

  “Part of me is saying I should go” Like many others, I imagine, I did not…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 1

“War has always been the handmaiden of progress” From its opening moments of buttocks and blood (both…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Shakespeare

Album Review: Merry Wives the musical (2006 RSC Cast)

  “He stinks of drink and urine And thinks he’s so alluring” One might have hoped that…

Posted in Film Moira Buffini Musicals Theatre

Film Review: London Road (2015)

“Everybody’s very very nervous” The theatrical production of London Road was a major success for the National…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Stephen Ward The Musical, Aldwych Theatre

“Manipulation, that’s the technique,  This conversation must not leak”  It’s a curious thing, to take a relatively…

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

Preview: Stephen Ward The Musical

“I invented a new way of lie, some might call it unconventional, All that stuffy post-war Englishness,…

Posted in Jermyn Street Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre

Review: All That Fall, Jermyn Street Theatre

“I’m left-handed on top of everything else!” It is not surprising that the Jermyn Street Theatre’s production…