Grand Hotel | Southwark Playhouse | Review

Grand Hotel | Review I saw the musical Grand Hotel in the early 1990s when it did a short run at the Dominion Theatre. I admit didn’t come away with any lasting memories. I recalled that it was about the Read More …

Calamity Jane | Touring Production | Review

The good old fashioned musical is having a comeback! Top Hat and Oklahoma have successfully toured the regional theatres, and London isn’t immune either this summer with High Society at the Old Vic and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Read More …

Hollywood and Beyond | Bullfrog Productions | Review

BULLFROG Productions promised a trip to Hollywood and Beyond at Chequer Mead last night and with the theatre sold out, they delivered a fantastic show to a very appreciative audience. The cast was drawn from Bullfrog’s students in East Grinstead and Sevenoaks who Read More …

Orson’s Shadow | Southwark Playhouse | Review

Southwark Playhouse | until July 25th 2015. Austin Pendleton’s play Orson’s Shadow is a fictional account of when theatre critic Kenneth Tynan suggests that his friend Orson Welles revitalise his failing career by directing Laurence Olivier and his mistress Joan Read More …

The Dreamers | St James Theatre | Review

The Dreamers

Running at the lovely St James’ Theatre in London until July 11th is a new musical set at the beginning of World War I called ‘The Dreamers’. It is the story of ordinary men, woman and children and how their Read More …