-
Recent Posts
- The BBC fails to give Rev Richard Coles the send-off from Saturday Live he deserves
- All the songs in Six the Musical
- Get tickets to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre summer 2023 shows
- A complete guide to all the Temptations’ songs in Ain’t Too Proud
- Sam Neill’s memoir delves into cancer, Jurassic Park – and some painful celebrity tales
Tags
Archives
-
Follow me on Twitter
- Stupendous @streetcarplay https://t.co/YJhnSahrK3 1 day ago
- RT @MusicalsMag: Could @sixthemusical be on its way to global domination? With the show opening in Korea we speak to its creators and produ… 1 day ago
- Wordle 647 3/6 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1 day ago
Links
Tag Archives: on the town
BWW Interview: Drew McOnie
The director/choreographer on reviving On the Town at Regent’s Park Open Air. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged bernstein, book tickets, broadwayworld, choreographer, dance, dancer, dancing, danny mac, director, drew mconie, interview, jerome robbins, jesus christ superstar, london, love, musical, new york, on the town, open air theatre, regents park, romance, sailor, singing, strictly come dancing, theatre
Leave a comment
Woyzeck leads May’s Top 10 new London shows
From new takes on Brecht and Büchner to Jez Butterworth’s latest and a classic musical. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged best, book tickets, brecht, comedy, danny mac, donmar warehouse, duke of yorks theatre, felicity kendal, hampstead theatre, hitler, jack thorne, jez butterworth, joe wright, john boyega, lee hall, lenny henry, lettice and lovage, life of galileo, london, maureen lipman, may, menier chocolate factory, musical, national theatre, occupational hazards, old vic, on the town, our ladies of perpetual succour, play, regents park, royal court, salome, sam mendes, star wars, the ferryman, the resistible rise of arturo ui, theatre, ticket deal, top 10, trevor nunn, trump, west end, woyzeck, young vic
Leave a comment
Talking tap on Mark Forrest’s show
I joined Mark Forrest on his BBC radio show to talk La La Land and the tap revival. Click here to listen to the interview (I’m on at about 2hr 42min)
Posted in Dance, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged 42nd Street, an american in paris, bbc, class, dance, dancing, emma stone, interview, la la land, learn, mark forrest, musical, on the town, radio, ryan gosling, stepping out, tap, tap dance, theatre, west end
Leave a comment
theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Stephen Mear
From Singin’ in the Rain and Anything Goes to Hello, Dolly! and Mary Poppins, Olivier Award winner Stephen Mear has done more than any other British choreographer to usher classic musicals into the modern era. But adept as he is … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Theatre
Tagged 42nd Street, acorn antiques, adam garcia, anything goes, arlene phillips, ballet, betty blue eyes, bob avian, broadway, busby berkeley, cats, chicago, chichester festival theatre, choreographer, city of angels, crazy for you, dance, dancing, disney, donmar warehouse, drama, english national opera, eno, evita, gershwin, gillian lynne, gypsy, gypsy rose lee, hello dolly, imelda staunton, interview, jerome robbins, jonathan kent, josie rourke, julie walters, kiss me kate, lara pulver, london, mama rose, mary poppins, matthew bourne, musical, national theatre, new york, Oklahoma, old vic, olivier awards, on the town, play, regents park open air, richard eyre, rob marshall, sadlers wells, singin in the rain, steam heat, stephen mear, stephen ward, strictly come dancing, strip, stripper, stripping, striptease, susan stroman, tap, the little mermaid, the pajama game, the producers, theatre, trevor nunn, victoria wood, west end
Leave a comment
Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse
It is no mean feat to turn an audience against idealistic, painfully young marines heading for the nightmarish hell of Vietnam, but Dogfight comes perilously close to achieving that undesirable goal in the manner of their introduction. The band of … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged 1960s, dogfight, film, folk, hippy, jarhead, jfk, london, marine, movie, musical, off broadway, on the town, once, protest, review, river phoenix, romance, san francisco, soldier, southwark playhouse, the arts desk, theatre, vietnam, war, woody guthrie
2 Comments
MARIANKA SWAIN ~ WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW 