How many creatives does it take to make a one-man musical? The answer can be "quite a few". And that it is in the case of SUPERHERO, the British one-man - or rather "one-dad" - musical now receiving its world premiere at London's Southwark Playhouse.
My theatre diary: West End Live, Lady Day, Hamlet and Quentin Dentin
My theatre diary w/c Sunday 25 June 2017: Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &
Q&A photos and podcast: Swinging Sixties-style with new musical Pete ‘n’ Keely
A string of hits, a cast of two, ‘Forever Plaid’ meets ‘I Do, I Do’. James Hindman's 2000 Off-Broadway musical two-hander Pete ‘n’ Keely gets its European premiere at Tristan Bates Theatre. The production, directed by Matthew Gould, stars David Bardsley and Katie Kerr as the titular stars in a primetime TV bust-up.
Photos, video & podcast: Creating a musical out of wartime prejudice in Miss Nightingale
What a great way to get the Bank Holiday weekend off with a swing. Last night, I hosted a post-show Q&A at Miss Nightingale. This original British musical is now in its sixth iteration - musicals, as Sondheim says, aren't written but re-written - since starting life as a short piece in Ipswich and at the King's Head Theatre in 2011.
Bra-waving, toe-tapping and female solidarity: The Girls and Stepping Out
Joanna Riding in The Girls; Dominic Rowan and Tracy-Ann Oberman in Stepping Out
My theatre diary: Off-West End plays Diary of a Teenage Girl, In Other Words and La Ronde
Clockwise: In Other Words, Diary of a Teenaged Girl and La Ronde Two
Lizzie Q&A podcast and photos: Why axe murderer Lizzie Borden is a feminist icon
The American gothic rock musical Lizzie, which is now receiving its UK premiere in a limited season at London's Greenwich Theatre, opens and closes with a nursery rhyme I memorised in my own American youth about the real-life 19th-century crime.
Musicals diary: Death Takes a Holiday, Promises and Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Gabriel Vick and Daisy Maywood in Promises, Promises A few thoughts on musical
Musicals (in SE1 1RU) diary: She Loves Me and Muted
Scarlett Strallen and Mark Umbers in She Loves Me at the Menier Chocolate Factory;
My musicals diary: Her Aching Heart and Another Night Before Christmas
Rachael Wooding and George Maguire in Another Night Before Christmas; Naomi Todd and Colette









