- Venue: National Theatre (Lyttleton)
- Date: 27th April 2023
- Directed by: Sam Mendes
- Staring: Johnny Flynn (Burton); Mark Gatiss (Gielgud); Tuppence Middleton (Taylor)
Genesis of a hit
It may still be in preview, but The Motive and the Cue at the Lyttleton is already looking polished.
- Venue: Wilton's Music Hall
- Date: 19th April 2023
- Directed by: Hal Chambers
- Staring: Richard Marsh
What have you done to our favourite film?
Wilton's Music Hall provides a strangely appropriate setting for Yippee Ki Yay
- Venue: Jermyn Street Theatre
- Date: 4th April 2023
- Directed by: Stephen Unwin
- Staring: Alan Cox (HEISENBERG); Forbes Masson (HAHN); David Yelland (VON LAUE); Archie Backhouse (BAGGE); Daniel Boyd (WEIZSÄCKER); Julius D’Silva (DIEBNER).
That’s just not possible, the Americans must be lying…
I'm a newbie at the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre to see Farm Hall.
- Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Date: 30th March 2023
- Directed by: Dominic Dromgoole
- Staring: Anne Reid; Nancy Carroll; Richard Fleeshman; Tony Jayawardena
What is identity?
At the Menier to see, well the really quite strange, Marjorie Prime
- Venue: Bridge Theatre
- Date: 15th March 2023
- Directed by: Nicholas Hytner (Choreographers: Arlene Phillips with James Cousins)
- Staring: Daniel Mays (Nathan Detroit); Marisha Wallace (Miss Adelaide); Celinde Schoenmaker (Sarah Brown); Andrew Richardson (Sky Masterson); Cedric Neale (Nicely-Nicely Johnson)
Best yet...
Still buzzing from Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre.
This has had rave reviews from its Press Night (last night) and thoroughly deserves them.
- Venue: London Coliseum (ENO)
- Date: 23rd February 2023
- Directed by: Richard Jones
- Staring: Frederick Ballentine (Loge); John Relyea (Wotan); Leigh Melrose (Alberich); Simon Bailey (Fasolt); James Creswell (Fafner)
Just so much more fun than Valkyrie…
Despite all the gloomy news about ENO funding, they still managed to stage their Rhinegold (Das Rheingold) at the Coliseum – the first in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the second to form part of the ENO’s planned Cycle (!?) – Valkyrie was last year.