504 stories by "Jonathan Baz"
Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Written by Willy RussellDirected by Bob TomsonA heart-wrenching tale of a family ruthlessly torn apart by society and yet intrinsically linked by fate, Blood Br…
Transferring from a sell-out run at Hampstead's Downstairs theatre last year, Phil Davies' Firebird tackles the ghastly undercurrent of child sexual exploitation that blights so many of this…
In a world that sees the phrase "legend" used far too freely, Ennio Morricone defines the word.
The maestro has been composing film scores since the 1960s and (whilst his name may possibly …
As the Shrek UK tour draws to a close, it was fun to catch up with the show's final week at Manchester's Lowry Theatre. Long long ago, before Shrek became a stage musical, it was an award wi…
Fresh out of the 'Bath' as it were and straight into London's West End comes the eagerly anticipated transfer of last year's adaptation of the film Mrs Henderson Presents. Perhaps most commo…
Much of what makes The RSC great is embodied in Maria Aberg's Doctor Faustus, now playing in Stratford's Swan Theatre. A classic Elizabethan text that is given an invigorating and challengin…
Stephen Sondheim's Road Show pulls in to Union Street this week for a February residency. It's a curiously intriguing tale, part fact part fiction, inspired by the real life architect Addiso…
There really is such a thing as the perfect murder, so the audience is informed by a gleeful Victor Smiley near the beginning of this play: it's the one you've never heard of.
I Loved Lucy is Lee Tannen's "autobiographical" biography of the final chapters of Lucille Ball's life. An age gap of 40 years separated Ball and Tannen, who had been a devoted fan of Americ…
Kander & Ebb's repertoire is famously bleak with musicals that have focused on the rise of Nazism, torture and misery in a Latin American jail, racism in the Deep South and celebrity cr…
Slow down Mr Baz!We all know that moment in The Railway Children….there’s been a landslide, the track is strewn with rocks and rubble that can only spell disaster for the train w…
Marty Feldman was a unique comedy turn who could have been a giant. His distinctive boggled eye face and wild hair set him apart visually and as a peer of some of the late 20th century comed…
Jonathan Larson died tragically young, aged just 35. A writer who touched so many lives, it was an inspired idea that saw Katy Lipson and Guy James mark the twentieth anniversary of his pass…
Churchill Theatre, Bromley****Music and lyrics by The BeatlesDirected by John MaherThe bandLet It Be, kicking off its tour in Bromley this week, serves as a remarkable reminder of The Beatle…
Alan Ayckbourn's latest play sees this most prolific of playwrights fire off yet another salvo of domestic dysfunction. Hero's Welcome, set in a northern English town, treats his audience to…
Pleasing on the eye and ear, this 1930s Noël Coward script is brought to life for 2016 by director Tom Attenborough and a cast of five. Telling the story of two newly married divorcees wh…
The RSC's opening to Shakespeare's 400th anniversary year could neither have been more extraordinary nor ambitious: the full cycle of the Henriad performed as an entire historical epic.
Much has been made of McDonald's six Tony wins and she is typically spoken of with reverence. But with it having been nigh on 15 years since she last performed in London, it has only been th…
Muted, being staged in a concert performance in early February, looks like an interesting and exciting venture, with the gig being timed to mark its album's launch. Penned by the double-hyph…
The Big Brother House is no stranger to fevered egos, control freaks and folk in pursuit of fame. But right now at the King's Head Theatre it is being graced with the presence of one particu…
There's an irrepressible sugary charm that surrounds Legally Blonde. Late into the show's run and on a cold January night too, the Gatehouse Theatre was packed with a grinning audience picki…
It is a sound idea that has seen Chichester Festival Theatre send their acclaimed 2014 production of Guys and Dolls on the road. The UK tour that commenced in Manchester in November last yea…
The Christmas decorations may be taken down - but at Leicester's Curve the seasonal family show has another two weeks to run and judging by Friday's packed, cheering audience it is continuin…
Making its European premiere, Grey Gardens is a blend of fact and fiction that tells of Edith Bouvier Beale, aunt to and her daughter Edie. What sets this family apart is that the two women …
London may have been sweltering under the warmest December since records began, but deep in a Piccadilly basement it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas the other night as Gary Willia…
