Tag: Mark Umbers

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Leading Man of the Year 2012

With perhaps some predictability, the two most popular posts ever on this blog are the Leading Men…

Posted in Best Actor in a Play & in a Musical fosterIANs Theatre awards

2012 Best Actor in a Play + in a Musical

Best Actor in a Play Luke Treadaway, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time I…

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2013 What’s On Stage Award nominations

THE DIGITAL THEATRE BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Sheridan Smith – Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic Billie Piper…

Posted in Menier Chocolate Factory Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: Merrily We Roll Along, Menier Chocolate Factory

“We go way back, never forward” Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along famously flopped on Broadway when it…

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DVD Review: The Turn of the Screw

“The children – strange, shadowy creatures” Starting in London in 1921 in a hospital for the war…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre David Hare Terence Rattigan Theatre West End

Re-review: South Downs/The Browning Version, Harold Pinter Theatre

“I may have been a brilliant scholar, but I was woefully ignorant of the facts of life.”…

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Album Review: My Fair Lady Original 2001 London Cast

  “An average man am I, of no eccentric whim” Unless you can’t buying all sorts of…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre David Hare Not-London Terence Rattigan Theatre UK

Review: South Downs/The Browning Version, Minerva

“You’re 14 and you know what effeminate means, this does not bode well for you Blakemore.” There…

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2011 What’s On Stage Award nominations

THE SPOTLIGHT BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Zoë Wanamaker – All My Sons at the Apollo  Helen McCrory – The Late…