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The Glass Menagerie leads January’s Top 10 new London shows
From a visionary Tennessee Williams revival to Wayne McGregor and a Dahl musical adaptation. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here Advertisements
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Tagged adelphi theatre, best, billy wilder, book tickets, broadwayworld, burt bacharach, caryl churchill, cherry jones, duke of york's, escaped alone, fantastic mr fox, hampstead theatre, january, john tiffany, london, lyric hammersmith, making a murderer, musical, national theatre, neil simon, new, orange tree theatre, promises promises, roald dahl, royal court, royal opera house, sex with strangers, southwark playhouse, tennesse williams, the apartment, the glass menagerie, the kite runner, top 10, us/them, virginia woolf, wayne mcgregor, west end, winter solstice, woolf works, wyndhams theatre
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Side Show, Southwark Playhouse
Composer Henry Krieger’s highly anticipated Dreamgirls arrives later this month, but first up is the UK premiere of his less well-known but thoroughly likeable Side Show, based on the real story of a pair of conjoined twins who became 1930s … Continue reading
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Tagged laura pitt-pulford, louise dearman, musical, review, side show, southwark playhouse, theartsdesk
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BWW Interview: Damian Buhagiar
The actor discusses meeting Lin-Manuel Miranda and returning to hit musical In the Heights. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged broadwayworld, damian buhagiar, dancing, drew mconie, hamilton, in the heights, interview, kings cross theatre, lin-manuel miranda, music, rap, sonny, southwark playhouse, west end
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Groundhog Day Leads August’s Top 10 New London Shows
From Tim Minchin’s latest musical adaptation and Shakespeare in a department store to a highly anticipated Branagh performance. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Tagged 946, allegro, almeida theatre, ambassadors theatre, august, best, billie piper, broadwayworld, children, family, found111, garrick theatre, groundhog day, kenneth branagh, kids, kneehigh, lee hall, london, matthew lewis, michael morpurgo, much ado about nothing, musical, national theatre, old vic, our ladies of perpetual succour, rodgers and hammerstein, selfridges, shakespeare, shakespeares globe, southwark playhouse, summer, the entertainer, the secret garden, they drink it in the congo, thom southerland, tim minchin, top 10, unfaithful, west end, yerma, young vic
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BWW Interview: Thom Southerland on reviving Allegro
The director talks about his career of reviving classic musicals in fringe venues, and bringing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s lost masterpiece to a European stage for the first time. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Florian Zeller’s latest leads this week’s Top 10 new London shows
From the French playwright’s highly anticipated The Truth to Kenneth Branagh’s hitman farce and an atomic musical, here are some of this week’s most eye-catching openings. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
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Xanadu, Southwark Playhouse
It trashed Olivia Newton-John’s film career, halted the movie-musical revival, and was so critically reviled it led to the creation of the Razzies. How, then, could the stage version of hubristic 1980 flop Xanadu become a 2007 Broadway hit? The answer, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, america, ancient greece, andrew lloyd webber, andrews sisters, art, artist, australian, broadway, california, calliope, camp, christmas, clio, comedy, dancing, disco, drama, eighties, elo, evil woman, festive, film, gene kelly, greek, jazz, jeff lynne, leg warmers, london, mount olympus, movie, muse, musical, Nathan M Wright, olivia newton-john, pastiche, physical, play, pop, review, rock, roller skate, rolling skating, satire, singing, skating, southwark playhouse, swing, tap, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, venice beach, vogue, xanadu, zeus
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In the Heights, King’s Cross Theatre
Rents are going up, local businesses priced out, and the rich folk and hipsters are invading. That’s in Washington Heights, New York’s largely Dominican-American quarter, but it could as easily describe King’s Cross, one of multiple London areas undergoing gentrification. … Continue reading
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Tagged america, dance, dancing, development, dominican, drama, drew mconie, gentrification, hamilton, hip hop, hipster, hispanic, immigrant, in the heights, kings cross, kings cross theatre, latin, lin-manuel miranda, london, music, musical, new york, pop, rap, rent, review, salsa, sing, singing, song, southwark playhouse, the railway children, theatre, tony award, washington heights, west end, west side story
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Strictly’s newbies and the same-sex debate
My articles in the October issue of the new Dancing Times magazine, out now: Strictly Speaking The class of 2015 assessed, from ringers and dark horses to marmite celebs and comedy acts. Stepping Out Is it time for a same-sex couple on Strictly? New in the Dance … Continue reading
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