Tag: Lara Pulver

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 3

“People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them, they went out and happened…

Posted in Albums Cast Recordings Curtain Up Show Album of the Year Howard Goodall Joe DiPietro Music Musicals Scott Alan Theatre awards

The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2015 nominees

Best Cast Recording Bend It Like Beckham (Original London Cast Recording) Cool Rider (Original Studio Recording) Gypsy…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Andrew Lloyd Webber Arthur Miller Barbican Theatre Chichester Festival Theatre Cyndi Lauper Duncan Macmillan Howard Goodall Jerry Herman Lin-Manuel Miranda Mark Gatiss Martin McDonagh Menier Chocolate Factory Musicals National Theatre Old Vic Oscar Wilde Robert Icke Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre awards Tom Morton-Smith What's On Stage Awards

2016 What’s On Stage Award nominations

Best Actor In A Play Sponsored By Radisson Blu Edwardian: Benedict Cumberbatch, Hamlet James McAvoy, The Ruling Class Bradley…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

TV Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 3, episodes 1 + 2

  “This chemistry sounds much too sophisticated for a horde of heathens” In this world of Netflix…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 2

“This could be the gateway to extraordinary things” The second series of Da Vinci’s Demons continues the…

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 Musicals Theatre West End

Not-really-a-re-review: Gypsy, Savoy

A third trip to Gypsy? My reaction on finding out it was being recorded for the BBC…

Posted in Cast Recordings Jason Robert Brown Music

Album Review: Parade (Original London Cast 2007)

  “Call for justice! We need justice! Beat the bastard! Kill the bum!” Based on historical events…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stephen Sondheim

Album Review: Gypsy (2015 London Cast Recording)

  “I had a dream, a wonderful dream” From the moment Imelda Staunton shook the very foundations…