Henry V at The Barn Theatre, Cirencester is an exceptionally well conceived production, with a clear focus on storytelling and great visuals – a Henry V for our times.
‘Inventive & entertaining treat’: HENRY V – Cirencester ★★★★
The Barn Theatre’s Henry V is an inventive and entertaining treat. A strong, well directed cast bring a classic to life with a verve and energy that should be seen and appreciated.
Album Review: Girlfriends – London Musical Theatre Orchestra ★★★★
Musically, Girlfriends is a richly diverse score that is beautifully delivered by the London Musical Theatre Orchestra and the cast performances on this album.
NEWS: Aaron Sidwell & Lauren Samuels lead the cast in Barn Theatre’s production of Henry V
From musical theatre to Shakespeare, Aaron Sidwell and Lauren Samuels will star as Henry and Katherine respectively in The Barn Theatre’s upcoming production of the Bard’s Henry V.
‘The leading ladies were on top form vocally’: WEST END WOMEN – Cadogan Hall ★★★★
Lambert Jackson Productions brought together three powerful female voices for this stunning concert, West End Women.
‘No denying the wealth of talent on offer’: GIRLFRIENDS – Bishopsgate Institute ★★★
The melodic, complex music in LMTO’s Girlfriends at the Bishopsgate Institute does provide moments of power and, if anything, this show serves as a fantastic celebration of women and the crucial roles they had in the Second World War.
‘It’s a truly important & inspiring piece’: Lucie Jones on being part of LMTO’s concert staging of Howard Goodall’s Girlfriends
Singer and actress Lucie Jones spoke to Emma Clarendon about starring in the London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s upcoming concert production of Howard Goodall’s musical Girlfriends.
NEWS: Camelot, Girlfriends & A Christmas Carol all feature in London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s new season
London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s 2018 season features three musicals in concert: Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot at the London Palladium; Girlfriends, composed by Howard Goodall and starring Lucie Jones and Lauren Samuels, at Bishopsgate Institute; and the return of festive favourite A Christmas Carol at the Lyceum Theatre.
‘I loved it. I really really loved it’: ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS – Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Emma Rice scores one of her biggest hits on Bankside with a musical that couldn’t be more Emma Rice if it tried. As it is, it fits perfectly into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, shaking up the established order once again.
ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS – Shakespeare’s Globe
Frankly, you can’t ignore the fact that every time you see it you get a free piece of chocolate. As long as you have the patience to wait for “le moment de magique” before you eat it.
Album Review: Noel Sullivan – Here I Go Again (2014)
Noel Sullivan will forever be a member of Hear’say first and foremost to me, the product of one of first of this generation of Saturday night music talent show – Popstars – but since then, a career in musical theatre has beckoned and it is on that, rather than his pop star life, that his debut album concentrates.
NEWS: Cast announced for Emma Rice musical Romantics Anonymous at the Globe
Carly Bawden, Dominic Marsh, Joanna Riding, Gareth Snook and Lauren Samuels join the cast for new Emma Rice musical Romantics Anonymous at the Globe.
Off-West End plays: Diary of a Teenage Girl, In Other Words & La Ronde
Two Off-West End plays have recently inspired my other half Peter Jones to compile Spotify playlists of his youth
LA RONDE – The Bunker
‘Wheel of Fortune’ gimmick and great performances distract the audience from the pedestrian storylines. This play must have been bold and daring in its 1920 premiere but for a 21st century audience it fails to shock.
LA RONDE – The Bunker
Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 play of 10 interlinked intimate encounters has proven enduringly popular over the years – adapted for the gays, for fans of musicals, for Charlie Spencer’s libido – and now Max Gill has taken a decidedly 21st century gender-neutral approach to La Ronde for the opening salvo in the Bunker’s second season.
LA RONDE – The Bunker
Everything that happens in this wonderfully quirky and raunchy production is put in the hands of fortune – meaning that the actors are also never sure which direction the show is going to take…
3000 possibilities: Staging La Ronde for the 21st century
“Over three months, I trawled through London interviewing everyone from sex workers, adulterers, fetishists, lovers to the desperately bored and married, asking them about their sex lives.”
VANITIES THE MUSICAL – Trafalgar Studios
With Racky Plews’ production, and some 40 years after Jack Heifner’s play premiered in New York, Vanities in its musical iteration finally crosses the Atlantic to make its London debut. A three-handler, Kathy, Mary and Joanne are Texan women who we meet as teenage high school cheerleaders on the day of what was to be Kennedy’s assassination.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Vanities the Musical at Trafalgar Studios
Vanities The Musical, about three girls growing up in Dallas, is receiving its European premiere at the Trafalgar Studios. The premiere production is directed by Racky Plews and stars Ashleigh Gray, Lauren Samuels and Lizzy Connolly. Here is what critics have been saying about it.
Cheerleaders get a bad rap: Vanities and four other musicals with pep
Watching Vanities The Musical made me remember a cheerleader from my own all-American high school who got her comeuppance – but did she really deserve it? And how many other musicals with cheerleaders can you name?
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