Review: Blood Brothers, Grand Opera House, York
What was the first musical you saw? Or more importantly, what was the first musical you saw that completely engrossed you? I’m proud to say that mine was Willy ...
Blood Brothers
Review: Evita, Dominion Theatre
Apart from last fortnight’s excellent outing to King Charles III, I rarely venture into the West End. I kind of know what I’m going to get. And if I was trying ...
Blog: The Wicked Stage: “It’s what got him into musical theatre, after all – how bad could it be?!”
One of my biggest frustrations as a musical theatre dork is snobbery about which musicals are better. This is an argument that continues in any art form of low ...
Filskit Blog: Is theatre etiquette dead?
Are theatre goers guilty of treating performances like a trip to the local Odeon? Rustling sweet wrappers, slurping on fizzy drinks, taking pictures and even ...
The Wicked Stage: Another Op’nin’, Another Show – A West End Round-Up
During my 10 months of writing this blog I have often wondered over the future and state of musicals and what it means for the genre. I and many people have com...
In the Pit: What happens when there’s no room for the band?
Have you ever turned up to a musical and thought, where’s the band? Perhaps there was an empty pit, or no pit at all? No appearance on stage? They are probabl...