504 stories by "Jonathan Baz"
Robert J. Sherman (he of the illustrious songwriting line of Shermans and no relation to Rory) has scored the reflective Mondays, recorded by Rosemary Ashe. There's an innate sense of wisdom…
Sides is Nadim Naaman's second album and it is a pleasure to catch up with this talented young man's vocal interpretations of some of Disney's and the West End's greats along with a selectio…
The Watermill has cast the show perfectly, with Tom Chambers and Caroline Sheen leading the Crazy For You company.
There are some imaginative touches in Iris Theatre's Treasure Island " the trouble is, in a play that is 2 ½ hours long, they are too few and far between. Daniel Winder has taken Robert L…
The show's truly impressive feature is Lindon Barr's choreography. The ensemble were incredibly tight and despite the ever changing story line, the movement in each scene was perfect. Barr s…
The original numbers have been reworked by Stiles and Drewe with a few new songs added too, in what is a light-hearted and delightfully dated snapshot of the English class system and its soc…
could a stage presentation of the latest episode(s) of the Harry Potter series match the buzz of the books or the hype and hysteria that has surrounded the much loved movies? The answer is m…
There's an aura of timeless quality that pervades the touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, currently in its second week at Wimbledon. Ian Fleming's wonderfully imaginative tale, so…
Superman and Me is a short, (if not so) sweet, two-handed snapshot of domestic dysfunctionality. Focusing on journalists Lois and Clark (geddit?) who met while working on the same newspaper,…
Florian Zeller is a precocious writing talent. The Truth is his third play to enthral London theatregoers in a year. While the French playwright's breakthrough import The Father reduced some…
In what is unquestionably a Superstar for the 21st century, Timothy Sheader's Jesus is no long-haired prophet. In an electrifying performance that captures both Christ's charisma and his fla…
There can truly be no finer night to visit Martin Lloyd-Evans' new production of Die Fledermaus than the hottest day of the year. As the sun set over the Opera Holland Park arena, west Londo…
Stalking The Bogeyman is a brave and challenging play. Co-written with Markus Potter who directs, David Holthouse tells his very personal and true story of having been raped at the age of se…
The show, however, is driven by the astonishing performances of Lucy Williamson as Violet and Ken Christiansen's Grahame. Williamson's performance is a powerhouse.
Green Day's anarchic and rebellious, teen-angst filled musical, American Idiot is back on the London stage with a star-studded cast who battle, and floor, the age-old scepticism of putting c…
What better way to showcase Ceili O'Connor's cabaret than as The Understudy - treating a packed audience at the Century Club to a whirl through many of the numbers that she had evidently hon…
Frank Sinatra famously said, "The rest of us will be forgotten " Never Judy." This is a quote that has lasted the test of time and Through the Mill gives but a handful of the many examples a…
Claudio Macor's Savage is a brave play examining yet another facet of the depravity that was Hitler's regime, where along with other minorities in Nazi occupied Europe, homosexuals were roun…
Seeing Bugsy Malone not long after having re-visited The Untouchables (Brian de Palma's Al Capone gangster movie) and the West End's revival of Guys and Dolls makes one realise just how clas…
After a dramatic Friday of tears and fears, agony and ecstasy and the resignation of a prime minister, a late-night cabaret of debauched unreality at the Hotel Black Cat proved to be quite t…
As Ray Rackham's Through the Mill prepares to open at the Southwark Playhouse, Paul Vale takes a look at this play based around Judy Garland and the men she loved.There can be no doubt…
The final production at the Union Theatre's old residence has been an absolute cracker. Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a brilliantly observed study of life in a northe…
Where Taylor's recent Sheffield outing flooded the stage with talent, albeit with no big star on board, the casting feature of The Go-Between is of course England's grand-daddy of musical th…
Unlike its ill-fated namesake, Thom Southerland's production of Titanic has now made a triumphant trans-Atlantic return crossing, tying up at London's Charing Cross Theatre for a ten-week se…
Richard Eyre, in one of the bravest and most visionary casting decisions ever, chose Hoskins to play Frank Loesser's low-life Nathan Detroit in what was to be the National Theatre's groundbr…
