New British musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was due to premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse at the start of this year, but the run had to be cancelled following the announcement of the most recent lockdown. Thankfully the show has been filmed and is now available to watch online at stream.theatre.
‘Creatively it is a show that is firing on all cylinders’: THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE – Southwark Playhouse (Online review)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice brushes up well as a classy and confident new British musical.
‘Lively & entertaining show’: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE! – Pleasance Theatre ★★★
Night of the Living Dead Live, the stage production based on George A Romero’s classic horror film, is a lively and surprisingly funny show to watch – even if the plot is a bit thin.
‘One of my favourite shows this year so far’: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE! – Pleasance Theatre ★★★★
Night of the Living Dead is an instantly recognisable title; George Romero basically kick-started the zombie genre in his 1968 flick, though they were just ‘ghouls’ then, a moniker adhered to in this: Night of the Living Dead Live.
‘A comedy sprinkled with horror & splashes’: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE! – Pleasance Theatre
The play Night of the Living Dead is not quite like the eponymous B movie cult classic on which it is based. It’s very much a comedy sprinkled with horror and splashes of gore and I love it.
‘A quality & innovative piece of theatre’: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE! – Pleasance Theatre ★★★★
George A Romero’s 1968 movie Night Of The Living Dead not only unleashed zombies upon an unsuspecting world, but was also one of the first movies to fuse horrific gore with political allegory and just a spattering of satire.
‘Heartfelt & hilarious’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
Imaginative, witty and beautiful – Seussical at the Southwark Playhouse will make you feel like a five-year-old again.
‘You can’t help but be entertained’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
Seussical is a bundle of feelgood fun that also incorporates some important and relatable themes, all set to a terrific score with a dazzling backdrop – Marc Pickering’s performance steals the show.
’Seventy-five minutes of loud noises & bright colours’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse
It’s difficult to work out who the musical Seussical is for and why it’s been revived. Trying to imagine how a 10-year-old might watch this show doesn’t help answer these questions.
‘Utterly bonkers but ultimately heartwarming’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse
Colourful, feel-good and more than a little bit mad: Seussical is pretty much everything you’d expect from a musical based on the stories and characters created by Dr Seuss.
‘Utterly & completely charming’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
Seussical the Musical is so utterly and completely charming I’m not ashamed to say it brought me to happy tears of joy at the end. Fast-paced – frenetic even – the action never stops, but it never gets in the way either of the drama or the heart or the show.
‘Sure to delight & enthral from start to finish’: SEUSSICAL – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Captivating and innovative, Seussical is a musical for all the family that is sure to delight and enthral from start to finish.
‘Truly moving & meaningful’: THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER – Manchester ★★★
The Return of the Soldier is a melancholy musical adaptation of Rebecca West’s novel and tells the story of wounded soldier Christopher Baldry’s return home.
‘Packed with lively songs’: BANANAMAN – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
All generations must have their superheroes; for children in the 1980s, tea-time television presented awe-struck audiences with the adventures of Bananaman, a particularly dim-witted super-hero who started life on the back pages of the DC Thomson comic, Nutty.
‘Fresh & a-peel-ing’: BANANAMAN – Southwark Playhouse
Armed with “the muscles of twenty men and the brains of twenty mussels”, Bananaman is here to save the residents of Acacia Road, and Bananaman the Musical is here to save off-West End theatregoers who are craving fresh and a-peel-ing new material.
‘Just like a cartoon strip’: BANANAMAN – Southwark Playhouse 🍌🍌🍌
This bold musical based on the beloved cartoon character has plenty of good ideas but is in need of some reworking to make it a stronger show.
‘Just like a cartoon strip’: BANANAMAN – Southwark Playhouse 🍌🍌🍌
This bold musical based on the beloved cartoon character has plenty of good ideas but is in need of some reworking to make it a stronger show.
NEWS: Matthew McKenna takes title role in Beano’s Bananaman musical, Full cast announced
Matthew McKenna has been unmasked today as the star and “handsome hero” of Bananaman the Musical, which runs at London’s Southwark Playhouse from 15 December 2017 to 20 January 2018, with a press night on 4 January. Full casting is announced today.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING – Wilton’s Music Hall
Sadly, their current revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – the first major one in this country since its 1963 premiere – falls on the side of the fatally old-fashioned. Director Benji Sperring’s sure touch has seen him work wonders with shows like The Toxic Avenger but here, an inconsistency of tone and performance level means that it sits awkwardly on this august stage.
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING – Wilton’s Music Hall
I had high hopes for this first-full-London-staging-in-50-years production of How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
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