Sheila Hancock has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours list 2021 with actors Toby Jones (OBE), Nina Wadia (OBE), Lesley Manville (CBE) and Sally Dynevor (MBE) also recognised.
‘Captivating, funny & exuberant’: THIS IS MY FAMILY – Chichester ★★★★
Tim Firth’s charming and warm-hearted musical This Is My Family has opened Festival 2019 at Chichester Festival Theatre and it’s impossible not to leave the show with a cheesy grin on your face.
‘Blindsided me with its warmth and sense of fun’: THIS IS MY FAMILY – Chichester ★★★★
This Is My Family is a little gem from Calendar Girls/Neville’s Island writer Tim Firth which blindsided me with its warmth and sense of fun, even when dealing with painful situations.
‘Funny, truthful, wise & bravely original in form’: THIS IS MY FAMILY – Chichester ★★★★★
This is gorgeous. Funny, truthful, wise, and bravely original in form. Anyone with a a family – past, present, remembered, or merely observed in cautious auntly incredulity – should see Tim Firth’s musical This Is My Family.
NEWS: John Simm, Dervla Kirwan Hugh Bonneville, James Nesbitt & Sheila Hancock all feature in Chichester Festival Theatre’s new season
Chichester Festival Theatre’s Festival 2019 has been announced by artistic director Daniel Evans. It includes John Simm & Dervla Kirwan in Macbeth, Hugh Bonneville in Shadowlands & Tim Firth’s first solo musical starring James Nesbitt.
NEWS: Linda Marlowe & Patrick Walshe McBride take over as Harold & Maude as run extends six weeks
Thom Southerland’s acclaimed London premiere of Harold and Maude has added six weeks to its limited run at Charing Cross Theatre. Linda Marlowe and Patrick Walshe McBride are announced today as the production’s new title stars.
NEWS: Linda Marlowe & Patrick Walshe McBride take over as Harold & Maude as run extends six weeks
Thom Southerland’s acclaimed London premiere of Harold and Maude has added six weeks to its limited run at Charing Cross Theatre. Linda Marlowe and Patrick Walshe McBride are announced today as the production’s new title stars.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Harold & Maude at the Charing Cross Theatre
Thom Southerland directs Bill Milner and Sheila Hancock in this new adaptation of Harold & Maude based on the film (playing until 31 March 2018). Here is what critics have had to say about it so far…
‘So full of happiness and magic’: HAROLD & MAUDE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★★
Harold and Maude is so full of happiness and magic. This gem cannot stay hidden, it is too special to stay hidden, it needs the recognition it deserves. In a dreary winter, treat yourself to this ray of light.
‘Charmingly absurd’: HAROLD & MAUDE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★
Harold & Maude at the Charing Cross Theatre is not dangerous or daring, but a light few hours of frivolous fun.
‘A third dimension of pure class’: Harold & Maude – Charing Cross Theatre
This new stage version of Harold & Maude says more about modern attitudes to ageing, about feminism, migration and seizing opportunities than the current slew of angry Fringe diatribes. And it says it more elegantly.
‘Too mainstream but still a desperately needed dose of life affirmation’: HAROLD & MAUDE – Charing Cross Theatre
Maybe this Harold & Maude isn’t a show for fans of the movie – it doesn’t match up, but that’s ok. It does still do a pretty good job in delivering a desperately needed dose of life affirmation on a cold February evening.
‘Hopeful, joyous and hilarious’: Harold & Maude – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
When told well, coming of age stories are very often a reminder of the fragility and beauty of life, inspiring a carpe diem attitude tempered with immense gratitude. That the ‘Harold and Maude effect’ delivers this message completely liberated of any subtleties is a shining beacon of hope for humanity in otherwise trying times.
‘An absolute delight’: Harold & Maude – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★★
Directed by Thom Southerland, Harold and Maude is an absolute delight. True to the book, but with a few diversions taken out, it will keep fans happy and introduce many more to Maudism and the movie.
NEWS: Bill Milner stars opposite Sheila Hancock in Harold & Maude
British film star Bill Milner (Dunkirk, X-Men: First Class, Son of Rambow) will appear opposite Olivier Award-winning West End star Sheila Hancock in the London premiere of Colin Higgins’ 1971 American black comedy romantic drama Harold and Maude.
NEWS: Sheila Hancock stars in London premiere of Harold & Maude, TICKETS ONSALE
Olivier Award-winning West End star Sheila Hancock is to star in the London premiere of the black comedy romantic drama Harold and Maude. The show will run at Charing Cross Theatre from Monday 19 February and run for a strictly limited run of 6 weeks only to Saturday 31 March, 2018.
Album Review: Cabaret (2006 London Cast Recording)
Cabaret is a show which has had many a revival and many a cast recording made from those productions but it is Rufus Norris’ 2006 interpretation that seems to have lingered the longest; a new touring version starring Louise Redknapp and Will Young starts at the New Wimbledon in late September.
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations + this week’s openings (1 Feb)
Mark Shenton’s top ten of the week, including Florian Zeller’s The Mother that has followed his play The Father (soon to return to the West End) to London from Bath. Plus, this week’s biggest openings.
TICKETS: Mark’s Top Ten recommendations + this week’s openings (25 Jan)
Top ten of the week, including Bend it Like Beckham, Close to You and In the Heights, three shows I’ve already re-visited again and again, and intend to yet again!
Weekly Theatre Podcast: The Dazzle, Grey Gardens, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Every week, a group of regular, dedicated, independent theatre bloggers gather together for intelligent discussion “from the audience’s perspective” about plays and musicals they’ve recently seen in London. Lively, informed and entertaining. My Theatre Mates is delighted to syndicate the (still) As Yet Unnamed London Theatre Podcast (AYULTP). Shows discussed (with timings) in this edition’s podcast: The Dazzle – Found111, …
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