512 stories by "Caroline Hanks-Farmer"
42nd Street was made famous by the 1933 film based on the 1932 novel by Bradford Ropes. This glitzy, glamorous revival of 42nd Street is set to make your heart soar, and have you tap dancing…
I first remember seeing Dave Willetts playing The Phantom in The Phantom of The Opera; it was my first real experience of live theatre. So it was nice to catch up and have a chat with this h…
"I'm sick of poor people" shouts one of the thrusting young men seated around a table groaning with empty wine and champagne bottles. Uniformed buttons have been unfastened, waistbands loose…
It is springtime and in a rural farm, the feathered inhabitants are getting ready to meet the new generation. For Ida (Ellie Nunn) this means sitting for hours on end on the nest while her p…
We're in a familiar setting. At the dawn of time, God is tinkering about with his new toys and creating some humans. But there's a twist.
Scott Reid is currently touring with The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time playing Christopher Boone. I caught up with Scott and we had a chat about "Curious" and his journey so …
The Life was described by the New York Times as "Broadway's best kept secret". Well, some secrets cannot and should not be kept, this is certainly true of, The Life. This sassy, sizzling, th…
I first saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time when it was at the Mayflower last year. Winner of 7 Olivier's and 5 Tony awards on Broadway the bar is set exceptionally high f…
Delving into themes ranging from euthanasia to this generation's inability to detach themselves from a mobile phone, Dog Ends focuses on the life of an average British family as they deal wi…
Two parallel narratives, set ten years apart, introduce us to the anonymous siblings. We first meet the teenage Her and the ten-year-old Him.
This exhilarating adaptation by Sir Matthew Bourne OBE is based on the Academy Award winning 1948 Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes, which is renowned for its Technicolour cinematogr…
Tales of plague-ridden London were Christine Foster's inspiration to write the play, so it's no surprise that this is where the story's strongest. Because we never leave the cell, we " like …
Seeing An American in Paris made me ponder the question what constitutes the perfect musical? If I'm honest, I haven't got the answer, but I'm pretty sure having seen this production, that t…
That is the Garland I want my play to celebrate. Let's not ignore the troubles she had, but let's also not become solely transfixed by them.
Aristophanes' The Frogs, originally adapted by Burt Shevelove and later adapted by Nathan Lane is a modern retelling of Dionysus' journey to Hades to retrieve the great dramatist Euripides i…
I had high expectations for The Miser with a cast that boasts Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack and Mathew Horne. It promised to be full of wit and mirth but if anything by trying too hard it conse…
I can safely say that there were no 'weak links' in the performances of this show but there were highlights. Carolyn Maitland, as Molly Jensen was stunning.
It is both Amanda Holden and Tracy-Ann Oberman who for me totally steal the show as busybody Vera and Maxine respectively. Holden is delightfully over the top only to crushingly bring you to…
Honeymoon in Vegas ★★★★★ Review by Soraya Scrivener Freddie Tapner, London Musical Theatre Orchestra’s founder and principal conductor introduced th…
The London premiere of an overlooked gem from the back pages of the playbook of a genius; a Nobel winning, genre defining, mould breaking titan of 20th century drama. One was Nude & One…
Being obsessed with crime drama, I was interested to see how something that would usually be a six part television series would adapt to the stage. I was surprised and delighted to find that…
In Other Words " A lifetime of love and loss is condensed into this touching play about the pain and confusion of losing yourself, and those around you, to Alzheimer's.
You'll enjoy a retelling of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night whilst being served an Elizabethan inspired five course feast by chef Annie McKenzie.
"It's really hard to find the words to describe it " I've been lucky to be in it since I left drama school. I went in as second cover and then progressed to lead role."
In 1998 a husband of one of the wives in a WI branch in Yorkshire was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The close-knit picture postcard village was rocked by this devastating news.
