News About A Midsummer Night s Dream at The National Theatre
July 20, 2021
Meet the cast of HAMILTON in the West End for the return performances which begin on 19 August 2021 at the Victoria Palace Theatre.
July 08, 2021
The 5th Avenue Theatre has announced that The Lamplighter, a new musical with a book by Sara Porkalob, music and lyrics by Justin Huertas, and story by Kirsten “Kiki” deLohr Helland, Huertas, and Porkalob, concludes the trio of Musical Radio Plays it will produce in its 2020/21 digital season.
July 06, 2021
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
This play is a wonder: Bach & Sons at the Bridge Theatre reviewed spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rating:
Hairspray could be the musical fix we ve all been waiting for.
Starring Michael Ball, Les Dennis and Lizzie Bea, it will be dismissed by some as 1960s escapism.
But the crowd s roar at the end of the show this week damn near blew the actors off stage.
Clearly moved, Ball s pantodame mum, Edna, thanked the audience. You ve no idea what it feels like to hear that after so long! , sighed the man who won an Olivier Award for the role in 2008.
The show s story is of plus-size school girl Tracy Turnblad (Bea) taking on racial inequality in suburban Maryland.
Tue 29 Jun 2021 19.01 EDT
It is tempting to compare Bach & Sons with Peter Shafferâs Amadeus, as Nina Raine unpicks the difficult personality of another composer with genius in his veins who died, at least as it is portrayed here, with his musical light undimmed but as a failure in other ways.
The similarities end there. Raine presents a middle-aged Bach (Simon Russell Beale) with studiousness and teases out power battles between him and his sons Wilhelm (Douggie McMeekin) and Carl (Samuel Blenkin), but her research hangs heavily and leaves the drama often inert, speaking its ideas rather than enacting them.
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