139 stories by "Stephen Collins"
By Stephen Collins
Holland Taylor is in exceptional form as the coiled, steely Abby. She manages to humanise a thoroughly inhuman creature, making her likeable despite Abby's more loathsome …
By Stephen Collins
Director Andy Blankenbuehler has achieved something remarkable and electrifying here. Together with David Korins (Scenic design), Jeff Croiter (Lighting design) and Paloma…
By Stephen Collins
Now playing at the Laurie Beecham Theatre is a remarkable piece of musical theatre, Club Gelbe Stern, written by Alexis Fishman and James Miller, and directed by Sharone H…
By Stephen Collins
While the tunes and harmonies for the new material might not be memorable, the orchestrations and playing is first rate. Kenny Seymour and Joseph Church, together with the…
By Stephen Collins
Where Hodge does elect for difference is in the manner of playing. No low-key, slow boil quiet broiling here. No, the parts are played with vigour, brasher than you would …
By Stephen Collins
Quite simply, it is one of the most perfectly conceived, cast and executed productions of a musical on any stage anywhere in the world. It's shocking, brutal, brilliant an…
By Stephen Collins
Central to the power of the the production is the exquisite casting of the two doomed lovers, Eddie and May. Nina Arianda, a fan of this play since her very youngest days,…
By Stephen Collins
The book is laid out like a sorta-score. There is an Overture, large chapters which form 'the key changes of (Bricusse's) life' - from A Minor to G Undiminished and a Coda…
By Stephen Collins
Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging and subtly preac…
By Stephen Collins
Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs that most 30…
By Stephen Collins
It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a particular form o…
By Stephen Collins
What play should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one ̵…
By Stephen Collins
What Musical should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone has one &#…
By Stephen Collins
If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails, a door doesn…
By Stephen Collins
Bricusse's output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find something to enjoy …
By Stephen Collins
When the climax to Act One involves a slapstick shovel-on-head knockout blow, a suit splitting across the central character's back, and Steven Berkoff finally making his e…
By Stephen Collins
The Hampstead season has all but sold out, if not actually sold out. Make every effort to grab a return. The production really ought to transfer to the West End and run an…
By Stephen Collins
Lennox is sensational as Lauren, the whacky factory girl who flirts with and eventually wins the heart of the Boss. It is a comic tour-de-force from Lennox who doesn't mis…
By Stephen Collins
As directed by Luke Sheppard, Casa Valentino is a play about a marriage. Everything turns on the central relationship between George (Edward Wolstenholme) and Rita (Tamsin…
By Stephen Collins
There are many extraordinary moments from Keenan. Highlights include his improvisation of horse-racing victories; the powerful sequence which opens the second Act when Edw…
By Stephen Collins
It feels like a farce as it plays out. Yet, it is described as "a raucous family drama about the cost of living the life of our dreams". Bizarre and incomprehensible thing…
By Stephen Collins
It is important to be clear about Kidman's failures because the character she plays, Rosalind Franklin, at least in the version of history which Ziegler endorses in her sc…
By Stephen Collins
Marc Elliott is the one cast member who seems to understand this and he completely subsumed himself in his dual roles of Thief and Reporter. Sinewy, handsome, bristling wi…
By Stephen Collins
Stephens shares writing credits for Song From Far Away with Mark Eitzel who provides the lyrics and music for a haunting, quite beautiful song, pieces of which punctuate t…
By Stephen Collins
What long running show should you see first in London? We have compiled this list to save you the trouble of working it out! It’s just our view – and everyone …
