Genre: Musical Theatre
Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice sings out of damage into heartbreak and redemption. Those who don’t know the play or its outcome should see this, even those who have.
Review: The Paradis Files
Not so much an event as a concentration of Errollyn Wallen’s genius celebrating the life of blind composer Maria Theresia van Paradis, in Graeae’s world-class production
Review: Beautiful
Outstanding, and outstandingly transferred as a tour that brings its stature with it.
Review: Heathers
Sometimes the dark is light enough. Meanwhile enjoy an exceptional cast and talent you’ll long to see again in something finer.
Review: Hamilton and Me: An Actor’s Journal
In rapid, elegant, idiomatically kerned language, Giles Terera proves himself a superb expositor of where it happens.
Review: Tom Lehrer
Another sovereign tribute. Stefan Bednarczyk brings Tom Lehrer swaggering out of retirement.
Review: Bette: Bathhouse to Broadway!
One of the most musically satisfying, funny, filthy and inclusive tribute acts of its kind.
Review: Glenda and Rita Live at The Rialto
Alexander Joseph and Ro Robertson team return in triumph.
Review: Sitting Pretty
When you see this show return, it’ll be outstanding, and in the frame for awards.
Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: … and Helen
Comedy musical, a slice of G&S history through parody and song - uplifting!
Review: I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical
Flawless, a stunning pocket-sized musical you really must see.
Review: Living Newspaper #7
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch a group of young dramatists take on the future
Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
Review: Living Newspaper #5
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: Before After
A pristine, heartwarming Valentine of a musical, starring a pair of real-life lovers, it deserves a real-life run
Review: The Official Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020
It’s a joyous confection out of thin lockdown.
Review: Being Posy
A solo performance which is written large in visible ink and all the more truthful for it.
Review: Beauty and the Beast
Nothing so convincing has been done with this legend. It deserves many revivals.
Review: The Sound of Music
Phenomenal singing all round. A more than solid recommendation for that alone.
Review: Andrew Lloyd-Webber 50th Birthday Live from the Royal Albert Hall, 1998
The great discovery was the multi-roling Marcus Lovett, sexy and lethal, able to attack several roles and convince you he was born for them, even into them.
Review: The Phantom of the Opera
The Albert Hall’s sovereign production, unlikely to be surpassed particularly with the special encore.
Review: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
A salutary reminder of how a great musical talent and collaboration started
Review: We Are In Time
A heart jumping exploration of transplants with a majesty of the music at its heart and a subtle theatricality expanding it all
Review: Blood Brothers
The blend of definitive and new cast members in a recent classic has overwhelming impact: as story, as lyric fable, as terrible moral for these distracted times.
Review: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The three lead actors, divas and a superb cast give this production its beating pink heart.
Review: What Girls Are Made Of
Cora Bissett’s set the bar thrillingly high for a new genre. Who could follow her?
Review: Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody
Voldemort the Musical Parody is back, funnier and slicker with all our favourite characters and songs.
Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
It couldn’t be done any better and puts several touring shows to shame.
Review: Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
a stunning 70 minutes of a romp through a traditional fairy tale, but with very edgy presentation.
Review: Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents Nae Bother
Hilarious night with 4 guys, 2 guitars and a Casio.
Review: Frisky and Mannish: Poplab
An hour inside Frisky & Mannish’’s ‘Poplab’ is a complete crowd-pleasing riot. Feel-good vibes only!
Review: Baby Wants Candy: The Completely Improvised Full Band Musical
A fully improvised live musical in an hour
Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical : Less Miserables
Dazzling ditties in a tale with a twist
Review: Fiver
An enchanting speed-read of our connectedness, a reminder that a fiver can change your life. Irresistible.
Review: Little Miss Sunshine
It’s a quiet heartbreaker, with stoicism and love the only answers. Do see it.
Review: My Left Right Foot The Musical
An Outrageous and Genius Explosion of What Inclusion Actually Means in the Arts Carried on the Heroic Chariot of Musical Theatre
Review: Return to the Forbidden Planet
It’s a must-see. Whatever warp factors you have to go through.
Review: The Dark Carnival
An underground plot with other worldly twists and live turns in a carnival of music and stories that has massive over ground appeal
Review: Hole
Wow drama, the original Greek tragoidia. It invokes the same powers, almost the same gods.
Review: Madagascar The Musical
Highly Recommended for monkeys and lemurs of all ages – quite apart from lions, zebras, hippos and giraffes.
Review: Dirty Dancing
There’s a fitting heart-warming climax to a dream of production. And a surprise to those who think they know the film.
Review: Mao That’s What I Call Music!
Des Kapital presents a strange brew of pop karaoke and Communist China
Review: The Mould That Changed the World
A creative attempt to develop a new musical that integrates a public health message within an interesting, true story.
Review: We’ve Got Each Other
The Bon Jovi Musical that has it all, except everything that is a tour de force, with lights, an incredible Sir Jon sound track and a narrator that brings it all together without the glitz and aplomb but all the flair.
Review: 89 Nights: An Original Musical
An exciting, fast-paced new musical - creatively staged using minimal set.
Review: A Fair Tale About a Fairy Trade
A brave attempt to tackle a serious issue, from an ambitious, enthusiastic and passionate young company.
Review: A Man’s A Man
Celebrate the life and death of the acclaimed poet Robert Burns, with marvelous music and daring prose
Review: Timpson The Musical
A pair of star-crossed lovers out to out-invent their foe, one Keypulet, the other Montashoe.
Review: A Gallant Life
An engaging and memorable performance, recounting motor-racing champion Muriel Thompson’s remarkable First World War experiences.
Review: Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody
An hour of delightful escapism for muggles, witches and wizards
Review: Holy Moses
A charming retelling of the Moses story through two young people who may win the prize for show furthest travelled and certainly tell this tale with confidence.
Review: The Red Shoes
Sizzling reimagining of the Hans Christian Anderson tale in the context of Weimar Germany that brims full of artistic value
