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Cast of Be More Chill (Photo Matthew Crockett)

REVIEW: Be More Chill, Shaftesbury Theatre (2021)
Closing 5th September

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 7 July 2021
Post category:Currently Running Musical Review West End
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Be More Chill the musical has been a phenomenon on Broadway after Ned Vizzini's "young adult novel" captured the imagination of American teenagers in New Jersey and beyond. For a show to be sold out in the States before it opens is remarkable. So Be More Chill comes to London with an impressive amount of downloads on Spotify and the like. There have been 350 million streams of the original cast recording.

Simon Russell Beale as Johann Sebastian Bach (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Bach & Sons, The Bridge Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 5 July 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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We hear about the precarious life of a musician dependent on patronage and the whims of the German nobility. We hear Bach's acerbic wit and cut to his conducting a choir where we realise he is not just a perfectionist, he has low levels of tolerance. We see he has a bad temper and is stubborn, so will fall out with those he depends on financially and get into petty quarrels. We also appreciate the humour of Bach's witty lines and put downs.

Esh Alladi (Photo by Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: Out West, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published: 24 June 2021
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Out West is a collection of three one actor plays by three renowned playwrights, linked by each play illustrating differing aspects of racism and alluding to the area where the Lyric Theatre is today. One is about a mixed race marriage, one about a black woman's fight for self esteem and one about a law student from overseas arriving in Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria.