Everyone deserves a happy ending, and as we head towards the festive season, messages of hope and forgiveness start to provide us with a real sense of magic.
‘Hopeful & joyful without being sickly sweet’: THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT – Stratford-upon-Avon (RSC) ★★★★
My first time back in Stratford-upon-Avon since February 2019, and roughly three years since I’d last stepped foot in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre – and after seeing some rehearsal footage of this new show, I was excited to see what this had turned into.
Puppetry, top casting & other reasons you should see The Magician’s Elephant
The RSC’s brand-new musical, an adaptation of The Magician’s Elephant, started performances this week at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Earlier this month, the company opened its rehearsal room doors for a sneak peek. Why should you add this show to your list of autumn treats?
‘Sams’ adaptation is excellent’: WHAT’S IN A NAME – Touring ★★★★
What’s In A Name is a comedy-drama that’s packed full of great one-liners while maintaining a dark edge – the cast is uniformly excellent.
Intra Muros Q&A video: What compelled director Ché Walker to take to the stage himself for the first time in 11 years?
What does theatre mean to you? How do actors marry up the dual emotional demands of their chosen profession? How many ‘characters’ or versions of ourselves to the rest of us play in our own lives?
Is Alexis Michalik the new Florian Zeller? How did a prison visit inspire his new play Intra Muros?
The multi-Moliere Award-winning writer Alexis Michalik has been hailed as the golden boy of French theatre. He’s now making major inroads into the UK, his mother’s homeland, with back-to-back premieres of Edmond and Intra Muros.
‘We love doing new writing here’: WATCH Park Theatre artistic director Jez Bond, Ché Walker & Alexis Michalik on Intra Muros
Why is London’s Park Theatre so excited about premiering the English-language translation of French playwright Alexis Michalik’s Intra Muros? Watch our video interviews with artistic director Jez Bond – who yesterday announced his new season, including no fewer than seven more premieres – as well as director Ché Walker and Michalik himself. Time to get booking!
FEATURED SHOW: Alexis Michalik follows Edmond with Intra Muros, ★★★★ reviews are in!
“I can’t recommend this show enough!” Joining Edmond in the UK, award-winning French playwright AlexisMichalik’s Intra Muros has just premiered at London’s Park Theatre, where it runs until 4 May 2019. What have Mark Shenton and other reviewers been saying?
PHOTOS: Olivier nominee Summer Strallen & Ché Walker premiere Alexis Michalik’s Intra Muros
Hot on the heels of the star-studded UK premiere of Edmond, Intra Muros, the latest from multi Moliere Award-winning French playwright Alexis Michalik, is received its UK premiere at London’s Park Theatre with a cast including Olivier Award nominee Summer Strallen. Scroll through our photo galleries – and then get booking!
‘Expect to be amused, scared, shocked & moved’: Summer Strallen stars in Intra Muros at the Park Theatre
Summer Strallen chatted to Love London Love Culture’s Emma Clarendon about swapping musicals for her latest role in the UK premiere of multi-award-winning French writer Alexis Michalik’s play Intra Muros at the Park Theatre.
‘Hilariously brilliant night at the theatre’: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End ★★★★
This show is funny beyond belief and a real joy to watch. If it’s a feel-good show you want, then Young Frankenstein is the one for you.
‘Madcap success & monstrous consequences’: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End ★★★★★
If you want thoroughly entertaining, which requires no thought, just the ability to laugh, then this is the show for you. Young Frankenstein is a monstrously fun night out.
‘Lovers of the original movie will be thrilled’: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End
A decade after the mega-budget follow-up to The Producers flopped on Broadway, Mel Brooks is back with a scaled down Young Frankenstein, this time on London’s West End. The sets may be smaller, but the laughs are just as big.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End ★★★★★
It might be too early for pantomime, but it’s never too soon to see Mel Brooks’ ingenious updating of Young Frankenstein delivered as a spoof both of the horror movie genre and of the theatricality of stage musicals.
What do revivals of Hair & Five Guys Named Moe have in common?
Terri Paddock rounds up three musicals she’s seen recently: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein in the West End, Five Guys Named Moe in the specially erected Marble Arch Theatre and the 50th-anniversary revival of Hair at The Vaults.
What do revivals of Hair & Five Guys Named Moe have in common?
Terri Paddock rounds up three musicals she’s seen recently: Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein in the West End, Five Guys Named Moe in the specially erected Marble Arch Theatre and the 50th-anniversary revival of Hair at The Vaults.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End ★★★★
Like The Producers before it, Young Frankenstein hails from a Brooks movie of some 40 years earlier with the veteran writer/director reframing the comedy-horror flick around his own composition of words and music.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End ★★★★
This cult movie-cum-musical is a smash hit with those who don’t take themselves too seriously – and who appreciate that same quality in musical theatre. Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is outrageously funny and devilishly naughty.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – Garrick Theatre ❤❤❤❤❤
Mad and bizarrely brilliant, this musical based on the classic 1974 film is a great way to cure the blues. If there is a more madly brilliant show than Young Frankenstein in the West End then I have yet to see it.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN – West End
It’s alive…barely. Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein staggers into the West End after some more time on the operating table since its 2007 Broadway opening. But for a piece of new musical theatre, it is so desperately old-fashioned that you half expect Russ Abbot and Bella Emberg to pop up and do a turn.
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