139 stories by "Stephen Collins"
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
The dancing is really the one area here where there is a consistent, utterly stylish, utterly camp, utterly "too much" approach. The cast are all accomplished dancers and …
By Stephen Collins
Nadia Fall has misunderstood the play and, by seeking to make her mark on it, has come dangerously close to obliterating its impact. Bad casting and bad direction, however…
By Stephen Collins
There is no doubt that Mrs Henderson Presents should transfer to the West End. The material is first-rate and superior to many new musicals that have played there in recen…
By Stephen Collins
Hamlet Barbican Theatre 14 August 2015 It has been two hours. The dreary Claudius has just dispatched his son-in-law, Hamlet, to England and confided to the audience that …
By Stephen Collins
I doubt anyone could hope for a finer, more delicate production of this great play. It is genuinely funny in parts, full of melodramatic touches which are not silly but in…
By Stephen Collins
It is difficult to remember a recent production of a drama where the design elements played so profoundly important a role in the understanding of the production that it i…
By Stephen Collins
This gender, race and sexual politics canvas stretches across the entire platform of the performances, from the sharp opening patter of Fez Fa'anana which happily offends …
By Stephen Collins
Regardless of how it is characterised, Michael Strassen's production of Tommy is a genuine triumph, practically perfect in every way. From the first note, it grabs you by …
By Stephen Collins
Christian James is a wonderful Pinocchio. He completely captures the sense of the character's otherness and separation (being living wood) as well as a newcomer's desire t…
By Stephen Collins
Proud's choreography is redolent with an acute understanding of all this and everything he does aims to help involvement in and understanding of the work's intent. The hot…
By Stephen Collins
The Globe is not really a space for claustrophobic intense drama and this production really brings that home. This production would look and feel very different in the Sam…
By Stephen Collins
The utterly reliable Laura Pitt-Pulford brings strength, warmth and thoughtfulness to Milly - frankly, she outdoes Jane Powell by some distance. Her Milly is completely be…
By Stephen Collins
Vocally, Madeleine Haynes was more than a match for the requirements of Strouse's score. She handled the plaintive "Maybe" like a seasoned trooper, and belted out "Tomorro…
By Stephen Collins
This is Whishaw's show - no question. He is a force of nature, fiercely unearthing every moment of nuance, humour and purpose from the text and giving a totally committed,…
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 …
By Stephen Collins
The comic performance of the night, and the source of most consistent pleasure, came from the very talented Tom Edden who made an acting masterclass out of the portrayal 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
Rachel Kavanaugh presents us with a wily, almost feral Aunt Eller, a metrosexual Curly, a tomboy Laurey, an arch but staunchly feminine Ado Annie, a profoundly stupid but …
By Stephen Collins
Happily, Oh! Carol provides a thoroughly entertaining and exuberant cross-section of Sedaka's work. There are the hits but also lesser remembered works, and truly no numbe…
By Stephen Collins
The Spitfire Grill is a musical treat. James Valco's score is richly rewarding and creates a genuinely engaging musical atmosphere which helps shape and drive the narrativ…
By Stephen Collins
In Jenna Russell, Damian Humbley and Cynthia Erivo, Lenson has assembled three of the best, most exciting performers of musical theatre in London. Each performer turns in …
By Stephen Collins
The result here is that this is more the Comedy of Richard II than the Tragedy of Richard II. There is an unseemly pursuit of laughter " characterisations are extreme, lan…
