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Review: how to live a jellicle life, Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Are you living a jellicle life? Wait, no – I have to backtrack to the question: What exactly is a jellicle life? That is the question that comedian Linus Karp ...
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Review: Assassins, Menier Chocolate Factory
Another musical revival in the wake of British classics Evita and Cats comes from the other side of the Pond. Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, first performed in 1...
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 ...
Blog: The Wicked Stage – Why Judi Dench is my favourite female musical theatre performer
I know that anyone who only knows Dame Judi Dench for her Shakespeare roles and as ‘M’ in James Bond may think this is a crazy statement. For me, it is beca...
The Wicked Stage: Why is A Chorus Line a singular sensation?
A Chorus Line makes a triumphant return to the West End for the first time since it premiered in the UK in the late seventies, which ties in with research I h...
Review: The Lady’s Not For Walking Like an Egyptian
In celebration of its fiftieth birthday, Kennington’s OvalHouse has been holding a season called Counterculture 50: a series of five theatrical works, each comm...