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Review: Bare: A Pop Opera, The Vaults
A poignant musical that gradually builds to a powerful climax, Bare: A Pop Opera is a show that explores the difficulties of being gay in a religious society. ...
Julie Atherton
4.0
Review: Pure Imagination, St James Theatre
Leslie Bricusse is one of the big names in both stage and screen. Some may recognise Charlie and the Chocolate Factory classics such as 'Pure Imagination' or 'T...
Review: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Arts Theatre
Musicals are a genre I love to hate, or sometimes hate to love. I have to be in the mood for one. In general that which niggles me about them is the same as wha...
Review: Shock Treatment, King’s Head Theatre
Shock Treatment is like The Rocky Horror Show’s underachieving younger sibling. Sure, it has its own charm and can be quite entertaining but it will never leave...
Review: Thérèse Raquin, Park Theatre
The forces of society and the drives of the individual are not the best bedfellows in this racy take on Émile Zola’s classic, from adapter/director Nona Sheppha...
The Wicked Stage: “Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk” – My excitement at a musical theatre chat show
One of the week’s biggest musical theatre news items is that Sky Arts has commissioned a musical theatre chat show with Elaine Paige as its host. I was super ex...