From the audience at the Duke of York’s Theatre, it’s clear that Shirley Valentine is a much loved story and after seeing Sheridan Smith’s performance, I think it’s only going to receive further love and praise.
NEWS: The Educating Rita 2020 tour returns
Following the success of the run in August at the Minack Open Air Theatre in Cornwall, Olivier and Tony Award-winning producer David Pugh has announced that the acclaimed 40th anniversary production of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is coming back from 28 October 2020.
NEWS: Stephen Tompkinson will star in Educating Rita at the Minack Theatre in August 2020
Stephen Tompkinson (Frank) and Jessica Johnson (Rita) will star in the 40th anniversary production of Willy Russell’s Educating Rita at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall from 18-29 August 2020, directed by Max Roberts.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring ★★★★
Blood Brothers is one of Break A Leg’s favourites and it’s always a due to review the show, the dynamics are different each time and yet the overall drama, comic timing and splendour of the production never waivers.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE – Touring
Written after Educating Rita and Blood Brothers, and very much in a similar tone, Shirley Valentine is the feel-good, feel-sad tale of a woman who realises that the best bits of life have passed her by. Here is regret and self-doubt written in the life a 42 year-old woman with grown-up kids – and a husband who uses the fact that he loves her to ignore her.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE – Touring
Jodie Prenger makes a perfect Shirley in this one woman play about rediscovering yourself and regaining a sense of freedom, told in a lively production.
NEWS: ‘Definitive Mrs Johnstone’ Lyn Paul leads 30th anniversary Blood Brothers tour
2017 marks 30 years since Bill Kenwright’s production of the international smash hit musical Blood Brothers first toured the UK. Lyn Paul leads the cast on the show’s continuing tour.
NEWS: Jodie Prenger stars in 30th anniversary tour of Shirley Valentine
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, the first major revival of this national treasure will embark on a UK tour in 2017. Opening on Thursday 2 March 2016 in Bromley, Shirley Valentine will star much-loved actress Jodie Prenger as Shirley.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring
It was my third visit to see Willy Russell’s much loved production of Blood Brothers, and it’s telling when after a hat-trick of trips, I could return again and watch it another three times, at least.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring
A heart-wrenching tale of a family ruthlessly torn apart by society and yet intrinsically linked by fate, Blood Brothers has evolved into a classic modern British musical.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring
Every musical needs a great soaring tune to call its own. And Blood Brothers certainly has that.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring
Every musical needs a great soaring tune to call its own. And Blood Brothers certainly has that.
BLOOD BROTHERS – Touring
Have you heard the story of the Johnstone twins…….? Sometimes as a reviewer, you finish watching a show thinking this is going to be the easiest review I’ve ever written and then you start to write it and hit a block? Why? Just because sometimes a performance that receives a full house standing ovation, is so incredible that its hard to find the words to do it justice! This is one of those occasions.
From Down Under: Blood Brothers in Melbourne
The West End’s third longest-running musical, Blood Brothers is a dramatically charged potboiler with a poetic book and lyrics by Willy Russell (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita). Russell’s simple music is highly hummable and well matched to the lively working-class characters.
Interview with Willy Russell: As Educating Rita returns home to Liverpool for its 35th birthday
My former Northwest Editor at WhatsOnStage.com, Glenn Meads, recently met up with Willy Russell, whose iconic play Educating Rita has “come home” to Liverpool Playhouse this month to celebrate its 35th birthday. The anniversary production of Russell’s two-hander is directed by Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and stars native Liverpudlians Leanne Best […]
Review: Shirley Valentine (Menier Chocolate Factory)
There can be scarcely a Chardonnay-drinking woman on the planet who failed to be inspired by the story of Shirley Valentine, a Liverpool housewife whose confidence and personality were so submerged by her marriage until she rediscovered them on holiday in the Greek Islands, fulfilling an ambition to ‘drink a glass of wine in the […]
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