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Old Friends

  • Venue: Gielgud Theatre
  • Date: 31st October 2023
  • Written by: Stephen Sondheim (and put together by Cameron Macintosh)
  • Directed by: Cameron Macintosh (Production and Concept); Stephen Mear (choreography); Matthew Bourne (staging - with Julia McKenzie)
  • Staring: Bernadette Peters; Lea Salonga; Janie Dee; Christine Allado; Clare Burt; Bonnie Langford; Damian Humbley; Bradley Jaden; Gavin Lee; Jason Pennycooke; Joanna Riding; Jeremy Secomb; Jac Yarrow, Marley Fenton; Beatrice Penny-Touré.

 

What friends, what a night. What fun!

Halloween at the Gielgud, to see Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ – compiled and produced by Cameron Macintosh in honour of his old friend Sondheim, and made up extensively of excerpts from Cameron Macintosh’s Sondheim productions.

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A Voyage Round my Father

  • Venue: Richmond Theatre
  • Date: 13th October 2023
  • Written by: John Mortimer
  • Directed by: Richard Eyre
  • Staring: Rupert Everett; Julian Wadham

...worth the trip!

Back at Richmond to catch John Mortimer’s A Voyage Round My Father.

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Anthropology

  • Venue: Hampstead Theatre
  • Date: 2nd October 2023
  • Written by: Lauren Gunderson
  • Directed by: Anna Ledwich
  • Staring: Myanna Buring; Dakota Blue Richards; Yolanda Kettle; Abigail Thaw

It's not all about AI, it's about us

Good seats at The Hampstead Theatre to see  Anthropology, Lauren Gunderson’s new play.

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Close-up – The Twiggy Musical

  • Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
  • Date: 23rd September 2023
  • Written by: Ben Elton
  • Directed by: Ben Elton
  • Staring: Elena Skye; Steven Serlin; Hannah-Jane Fox ; Matt Corner

A woke take on Twiggy, what's not to like?

Another Ben Elton (Writer and Director) musical mash-up, choosing popular or relevant and timely songs from Twiggy’s life (actually, from her parent’s marriage) until, broadly, her Royal Variety Performance of her Broadway Gershwin extravaganza in the 1980s.

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Pygmalion

  • Venue: Old Vic
  • Date: 7th September 2023
  • Written by: George Bernard Shaw
  • Directed by: Richard Jones
  • Staring: Bertie Carvel; Patsy Ferran; John Marquez; Michael Gould; Sylvestra Le Touzel

Talk about speed dating!

Tonight at a preview of Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

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Vanya

  • Venue: Richmond Theatre
  • Date: 29th August 2023
  • Written by: Simon Stephens, after (quite a long way after) Anton Chekhov
  • Directed by: Sam Yates
  • Staring: Andrew Scott (one man show)

A great acting journey...but reaching the right destination?

Firs show this year for me at Richmond, to see Vanya, the second preview of a play due to open at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 15th September after a further period of West End Previews.

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