Tonight is the first anniversary of the last performances that were given on a Broadway stage; a year ago tomorrow, Six was due to open on Broadway, but that afternoon the governor of New York State, the currently beleaguered Andrew Cuomo, announced that public gatherings of more than 500 people would be immediately suspended.
‘A place where truly anything goes’: Mark chooses his dozen (or so) best shows in P-town & beyond this summer
Summer theatre highlights in Provincetown, Cape Cod and Boston, including appearances by Audra McDonald, Marilyn Maye, Randy Rainbow, drag bingo and music at Herring Cove beach — plus Moulin Rouge in Boston.
‘If you love musical theatre, it’s unmissable’: THE RINK – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
Yet again, Southwark Playhouse is delivering an outstanding musical for a fraction of the price of a West End ticket. If you love the genre, it’s unmissable.
‘You will want to return to the Coloured Lights again and again’: THE RINK – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
For a technically brilliant show with performances that will leave you wanting to return to the ‘Coloured Lights’ again and again, go see The Rink. This is musical theatre at it’s best – let’s just hope that the rink keeps rolling in London.
‘This is a revival to treasure’: THE RINK – Southwark Playhouse
The Rink is one of those musicals that history hasn’t treated too kindly, despite a premiere that starred Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli but with Adam Lenson’s expert hand at the tiller, this is a revival to treasure.
NEWS: Gemma Sutton is cast alongside Caroline O’Connor in London revival of The Rink
Gemma Sutton will star as Angel, alongside Caroline O’Connor in the first London revival in 20 years of Kander and Ebb’s The Rink.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Ragtime at Charing Cross Theatre
Thom Southerland directs this new production of the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime, which runs at Charing Cross Theatre until 10 December 2016. But does it still fit with the times or is it slightly dated? Here is what critics have been saying.
RAGTIME – Charing Cross Theatre
You begin to run out of superlatives when it comes to Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento’s touch with small scale musicals. Having seen three of their previous ones at Southwark Playhouse, it should comes as no surprise that even though they’ve now shifted over to the Charing Cross Theatre, the same spirit of élan and bravura staging in confined spaces continues unabated.
RAGTIME – Charing Cross Theatre
A dozen of Thom Southerland’ excellent cast of triple threats also play the entire score as actor-musicians seamlessly blended into the action: I have never seen this done better. In a word, Ragtime is faultless.
RAGTIME – Charing Cross Theatre
A dozen of Thom Southerland’ excellent cast of triple threats also play the entire score as actor-musicians seamlessly blended into the action: I have never seen this done better. In a word, Ragtime is faultless.
NEWS: Earl Carpenter & Anita Louise Combe lead Ragtime, Full cast
Earl Carpenter, who starred in the West End and on Broadway as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, and West End star Anita Louise Combe, Tessie Tura in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre and both Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago, are to head the cast of a major new actor-musician production of RAGTIME.