Loserville is unashamedly cheesy, but it's the kind of cheese that we all enjoy every once in a while!
After a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Without You has transferred to the Menier Chocolate Factory till the 15th of September. It is a performance which reminds you just how powerful theatre can be.
In the crumbling surrounds of a music hall in London's East End beautiful young creatures in fringed and sequinned flapper dresses are dancing on table tops while dapper gents, who might have emerged from a 1920s copy of Vanity Fair, quaff G&Ts at the bar.
Back in 1972 Stephen Schwartz, the man behind every teenage girl's musical delight Wicked, teamed up with Bob Fosse to create Pippin, a show that ran for just under 2000 performances. Cabaret, Grease and A Chorus Line were around at the same time and have recently had hugely successful revivals, but till now Pippin has been pretty much lost.
Curve, a theatre located smack-bang in the city centre, provides visitors with an experience usually associated with only some London-based theatres. ...
'Masked balls.' These were the only words uttered by the London Sunday Times drama critic when he review The Phantom of the Opera 25 years ago today. Most composers, let alone producers, would be suicidal to receive a review like that in a major newspaper.
