Read more about the article REVIEW: Company, Gielgud Theatre (2018)
Rosalie Craig as Bobbie (centre) with the cast of Company - Photo: Brinkhoff/Mogenberg

REVIEW: Company, Gielgud Theatre (2018)

Stephen Sondheim's Company gets a meaningful and invigorating makeover with an inspired gender flip "Everythings differentNothings changedOnly maybe slightly rearranged"Harry - from the song, Sorry-Grateful Rosalie Craig as Bobbie (centre)…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Six – The Musical, Arts Theatre (2018)  <br>at the Vaudeville from 29th September 2021
Jane Seymour (Natalie Paris), Katherine Howard (Aimie Atkinson), Catherine of Aragon (Jarneia Richard-Noel), Anne Boleyn (Millie O'Connell), Anne of Cleves (Alexia McIntosh), and Catherine Parr (Maiya Quansah-Breed) - Photo: Idil Sukan

REVIEW: Six – The Musical, Arts Theatre (2018)
at the Vaudeville from 29th September 2021

Henry VIII's famous succession of six wives form the basis for this feminist, satirical and thrilling musical peopled by pop princesses... "My name's Catherine of Aragon. Was married 24 years,…

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at the Vaudeville from 29th September 2021
Read more about the article REVIEW: The Prince of Egypt, Dominion  (2020)<br> Closing 8th January 2022
The Burning Bush (Photo Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: The Prince of Egypt, Dominion (2020)
Closing 8th January 2022

I loved the singing voices of the main women, Christine Allado, Alexia Khadime as Miriam and Tanisha Spring as Queen Nefertari and the tunes would be better appreciated with a better book and less razzmatazz. The hit song "When You Believe" is sung superbly by Alexia Khadime and Christine Allado. The stage briefly lights up with the burning bush scene, the flames are dancers, the waters of the Nile turn red with blood and the Red Sea parts to let the Hebrews through. The number of plagues are very reduced but Hotep is hit badly with red, oozing pustulent boils. Let's move on!

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Closing 8th January 2022