Groundhog Day The Old Vic Booking until August 19th 2023 A third musical based on an iconic film from a few decades ago is currently enthralling theatre goers in London, not in the traditional West End but at the Old Read More …
The Sound of Music Chichester Festival Theatre Summer 2023 Casting that’s clever and exquisite lighting Songs that are catchy, the Nazis need fighting. Well-drilled young children and nuns who can sing These are a few of my favourite things! I Read More …
Men of the World Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne Preparing for a mystery trip to Scarborough three northern coach drivers pass the time remembering more exciting trips from the past, such as the one down the Rhine Valley. Stick hates his Read More …
Gaslight Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne July 2023 Gas Light or Gaslight was written in 1938 by Hassocks-born Patrick Hamilton. Written during a dark period in his life, Hamilton’s thriller set in London in the 1880s is a dark tale of a Read More …
Mrs Doubtfire Shaftesbury Theatre June 2023 Following the musical version of the 1985 film Back to the Future comes a similar treatment of the hit 1993 Robin Williams film Mrs Doubtfire The show had a rough old time of it Read More …
Absent Friends Devonshire Park Theatre June 2023 Eastbourne Theatres have followed last week’s production of Abigail’s Party with another suburban situation comedy of manners written just 3 years earlier in 1974. Scheduling the two plays one after another makes comparison Read More …
Abigail’s Party Devonshire Park Theatre June 2023 Abigail’s Party is a play for stage and television, devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes Read More …
The Ladykillers Brighton Open Air Theatre May 2023 EXEMPLARY EALING COMEDY REVIVAL Despite a chilly May night – this superb adaptation of the nineteen fifty-five Ealing classic ‘The Ladykillers’ keeps its audience on the edge of their seats until the Read More …
Blood Brothers The Hawth Crawley April 2023 “And do we blame superstition for what has come to pass? Or is it what we, the English, have come to know as class?” I love a Top 20, a Top 10 or Read More …
The Unfriend Criterion Theatre While on holiday Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She’s less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do Read More …