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‘A pleasure to watch’: PIPPIN – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★

In Features, London theatre, Musicals, News, Opinion, Plays, Press Releases, Reviews by Emma Clarendon12th July 2021Leave a Comment

This bright and colourful production of the musical Pippin at the Charing Cross Theatre is dazzling to watch – even if the story feels a bit flimsy.

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‘Why is this show being revived now?: PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly8th March 2018Leave a Comment

I want to like the fantasy and the colours of Pippin, to totally give in to the world of the play, but its problems are too many. Though I’m likely to be the humming the opening number for at least the next fortnight.

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‘Unmissable musical theatre’: PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Jonathan Baz5th March 2018Leave a Comment

This Pippin is one of those productions rarely seen on the fringe. It captures the sparkle of Broadway, transporting it to south London in a whirl of unmissable musical theatre.

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‘Barrel-scraping wit’ – PIPPIN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Johnny Fox3rd March 2018Leave a Comment

What shafts this production of Pippin royally in its fishnet and suspender-clad buttocks is its slavishly dated adherence to Fosse style costume and choreography as though no other interpretation could flatter the music or illuminate the story.

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PIPPIN – Manchester ★★★★★

In Musicals, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews by Jonathan Baz25th September 2017Leave a Comment

Pippin closed this weekend at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre with, yet again, this Northern powerhouse of fringe theatre delivering a stunning take on a Broadway Tony-winner.

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GUYS & DOLLS – West End

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Johnny Fox7th January 2016Leave a Comment

History-Boy-made-good Jamie Parker is beyond excellent, refining Sky Masterson with a crisp intelligence and occasional glimpses of hesitant motive and the inner workings of a genuinely three dimensional character that completely escaped Brando in the movie.

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