It doesn’t transfer well from celluloid to the stage and much of the action is not shown but spoken about. The scarcely veiled propaganda doesn’t wash with today’s audience and just descends to cheap laughs.
It doesn’t transfer well from celluloid to the stage and much of the action is not shown but spoken about. The scarcely veiled propaganda doesn’t wash with today’s audience and just descends to cheap laughs.
Richie’s early career as a holiday camp entertainer and later game show host sets him in good stead for the constant inane patter that is Archie’s hallmark, and he works an audience like an old pro.
It’s a bold re-imagining and like the monster , it has its flaws but it’s a novel creation.
Joe McFadden, winner of Strictly, star of TV’s Heartbeat and Holby City talks to Brian Butler about his forthcoming lead role in Priscilla, dancing with Katya, and learning the hard way.
13 years ago in the West End, and due to the hype, an actor friend and I felt obliged to see the ‘flavour of month’ the award – winning musical Avenue Q.
John Gay’s Beggars Opera was an 18th century sensation – an opera about the lowest murkiest levels of English society, featuring the popular songs of the day.
Although highly informative, certainly from this Cis reviewers perspective, it’s also deeply human and authentic and although the gender transition narrative seems to drive the play, as it comes to a close we see if for what it is, a play about unconditional love, acceptance and the need for change to keep us true to ourselves.
Author Peter James invited Brighton Hove and District Samaritans to make collections at the end of all performances of his recent production The House On Cold Hill at the Theatre Royal Brighton.
This is a great show, a feel good love story of tragedy and the ultimate redemption of loss, a rather hefty narrative done with such a light touch and segue of emotive realism that the audience were both laughing and crying.
Apollo Theatre Company presents the first ever major UK tour of the classic radio comedy. Tony Hancock fans will be in their element this autumn as the first ever UK tour of the classic radio comedy Hancock’s Half Hour comes to Theatre Royal Brighton on Thursday, February 7 at 7.30pm.