News, reviews, controversies and interviews of the week from London to Broadway, by way of Edinburgh, including the ‘banning’ of Mazz Murray from singing a song from Dreamgirls, Edinburgh venue pay rates, & a 70-year-old Broadway understudy getting the lead.
My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c April 25)
New entry this week is Show Boat, transferred from Chichester to the New London.
My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c April 11)
New entries this week are Les Blancs at the National and How the Other Half Loves in the West End.
Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 28)
After re-visiting The Book of Mormon, it makes it into this week’s Top Ten; so does People, Places and Things, newly transferred from the National to the West End.
My Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 21)
After three one-star shows in a row last week, there’s a guaranteed hit opening this week when People, Places and Things transfers from the National.
Theatre openings and my Top Ten Choices of the Week (w/c March 14)
Top ten of the week, plus new openings at the St James, Young Vic and Garrick.