Tag: Stephen Matthews

Posted in Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Theatre West End

One Show More – good news for theatre but…

Casts of Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables take to the stage of…

Posted in Lockdown Treats Musicals Theatre West End

Lockdown review: Les Misérables – The Staged Concert

Les Misérables – The Staged Concert is released on digital download, along with a bonus featurette which…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: Strictly Ballroom the Musical, Piccadilly

Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom the Musical may not be the strongest musical in the world, but it’s…

Posted in Leeds Playhouse Musicals Not-London Terry Johnson Theatre UK

Review: Strictly Ballroom, West Yorkshire Playhouse

“I don’t know if you are illusion” Hoping for a ten from Len and to avoid the dreaded…

Posted in Leeds Playhouse Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, West Yorkshire Playhouse

“Scrumptious as the breeze across the day” Who knew that Leeds would be a musical theatre hotspot…

Posted in Musicals Sheffield Theatres Theatre

Review: Anything Goes, New Wimbledon Theatre

“If love affairs you like  with young bears you like why nobody will oppose” Sheffield Theatre’s production…

Posted in Alice Birch Barbican Theatre Caryl Churchill Curve Theatre Enda Walsh fosterIANs Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove James Graham Laura Wade Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett Musicals Nick Payne Not-London Orange Tree Theatre Rona Munro Sarah Kane Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Looking ahead to 2015

I realise I’m just adding (belatedly) to the plethora of 2015 features already published but so many…

Posted in Christmas Theatre

Review: Puss in Boots, Hackney Empire

“Do you want to join the pussycat chorus” Though its position at other times of the year…

Posted in Film Musicals Theatre

Film Review: Les Misérables (2012)

“Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap” For many people, myself included, it is…