What do West Side Story, Gypsy and Follies all have in common? They were all penned by musical theatre doyen Stephen Sondheim. Side By Side is a jovial celebrat...
Of all the productions currently showing on the West End, there are very few that opened there without previewing or transferring from somewhere smaller. It may...
Catharsis is a Greek word meaning ‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’. Aristotle explains catharsis as the "purging of the spirit of morbid and base ideas or emotio...
‘Lovable’ is not a word often used in connection with the work of Stephen Sondheim. In fact the prevailing critical view seems to be that entertainment value ...
If you study musical theatre in any sort of depth you will come to realise that nearly every show falls into one of two categories: either a book musical or a...