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TV Review: Anatomy of a Scandal

Premier-grade schlock and watchable with it. Who knows how much longer Netflix can afford stuff like this…

Posted in Arrows & Traps Barn Theatre Digital Finborough Theatre LGBTQ+ Offie Awards Oscar Wilde Soho Theatre Theatre Theatre awards

The finalists of The ONCOMMs 2022

The OnComm is the new award for online shows from across the UK (and beyond) and was…

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…

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Film Review: Cruella (2021)

Emma Stone and Emma Thompson have lots of fun in the entertaining Cruella, which is only just…

Posted in Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Philip Pullman Phoebe Waller-Bridge TV

TV Review: His Dark Materials, Series 2

No spoilers, but the second series of His Dark Materials is a continued absolute triumph “Your duty…

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 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 –…

Posted in Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre West End

Review: Half A Sixpence, Noël Coward Theatre

“I’d let him strum my banjo” It was no surprise to discover that Half A Sixpence would…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Musicals Not-London Stiles + Drewe Theatre

Review: Half A Sixpence, Chichester Festival Theatre

“Don’t forget your banjo” Take a deep breath… the 1963 musical Half A Sixpence by Beverley Cross…