122 stories by "Matt Merritt"
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s great treats and, for
this writer at least, contains some of his most beautiful writing as well as
one of the more fascinating storylines in the cano…
It won’t shock any of our readers to hear we’re very excited about The RSC presenting Henry V as part of their winter season. Their Henry IV was a highlight of 2014 and both prod…
Mack and Mabel has long been known as a troublesome musical. Various reasons have been given for why it has repeatedly failed to secure itself a spot as a permanent favourite of the theatreg…
I can finally tick it off the list, and if I waited longer than I should have, I can reassure myself that I made a fantastic choice in my first show there. I've followed Lazarus Theatre's ex…
Check out this gorgeous take on “Girl In The Mirror” from Grand Hotel. A lovely vocal from Victoria Serra!GRAND HOTELBook by Luther Davis Music and Lyrics by George Forrest and R…
Take a blockbuster movie, add a bunch of songs and some sparkly costumes and stick it on a stage… A tried and tested recipe for success and one that seems to be a guarantee of success. It …
Measure For Measure is one of Shakespeare’s problematic
plays, a comedy that can be difficult to come to terms with for modern
audiences. The mix of bawdy banter and religious fervour …
Cider with Rosie
is one of those plays… you know, the
ones you’ve definitely heard of and you think you know a bit about but that you’ve
somehow never seen. Determined to r…
REBECCA is
timeless; the book beloved by generations and the iconic Alfred
Hitchcock Oscar winning film a classic. Now REBECCA arrives on the stage! Emma
Rice, the award winni…
The forthcoming UK tour of Terence Rattigan's FLARE PATH, directed by Justin Audibert, has today announced the full cast, headed by the previously announced Leon Ockenden as Peter Kyle, Oliv…
It has been said that 'You won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews'. Broadway wouldn't be what it
is today without the Jewish composers and writers whose melodies we so greatl…
We’ve always been fascinated by those shows that never make it… the ones that arrive in a furore of excitement and almost immediately disappear again. So as you can imagine, this…
It’s consistently hailed as one of the greatest musicals, topped Mark Shenton’s list of favourites and was one of the best things we saw last year… and now Chichester Festi…
In recent years Chichester
Festival Theatre has had a knack of creating hit after hit from fresh takes
on classic musicals. I suppose it was inevitable then that they would
eventually come t…
Final casting is announced today for the European premiere of Orson’s Shadow, a critically acclaimed comedy by Austin Pendleton, about the time when Hollywood giants Orson Welles and L…
I’m constantly amazed that these days if I miss a major
production of a play in the West End I can generally pop along to the local
cinema and watch it there or even in some cases but …
Beverley Knight is to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical Cats to play the role of Grizabella. Returning to the London Palladium from 23 October 2015, Lloyd We…
Tom Bateman, Jessie Buckley, Jack Colgrave Hirst, Hadley Fraser, Michael Pennington, Zoe Rainey, Miranda Raison, John Shrapnel, Kathryn Wilder and Jimmy Yuill join the cast of the Kenneth Br…
Onstage seating for the West End transfer of Claire van Kampen’s critically-acclaimed new play Farinelli and the King, starring Mark Rylance, will be released to the general public on …
If you’ve ever taken time to listen to Andrew Keates talking about being diagnosed as HIV positive, if you’ve read his tweets or impassioned blog posts or in any way been influen…
Antic Disposition are renowned for their fascinating site-specific productions of classic stories, whether it’s a visually striking Shakespeare or some of the best loved tales in Briti…
Okay, I’ll admit it, I went to the theatre to see an
award-winning actor perform in a way you’d never expect of him… Not Bradley
Cooper in the Elephant Man (though I did se…
