139 stories by "Stephen Collins"
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 unstoppable, extraordinary Cynthia Erivo proved, twice, what a potent combination Brown's music and lyrics can be in the hands of a singer whose voice can electrify ev…
By Stephen Collins
It is genuinely delightful to be able to report that anyone, child, adult, theatre sceptic or theatre lover, should have no hesitation in snaffling a ticket to the one man…
By Stephen Collins
Blanche McIntyre, whose revival of As You Like It now at the Globe, uses every trick in the book to make Shakespeare's play clear (it is, very), risqué (it is, very), eng…
By Stephen Collins
Of all the cast, it is the gifted Susannah Fielding who comes closest to the right style of acting. She really is a tremendous performer, winning in her winsome style, wit…
By Stephen Collins
Tony, Tony, Tony… On June 7, the 69th Annual Tony Awards will be presented in a glittering ceremony hosted by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming. As, arguably, the most …
By Stephen Collins
Despite its trappings and narrative, this is not a play about Anzac Day, the public holiday in Australia where attention is paid to those who fought for their country in w…
By Stephen Collins
On the strength of this first, tentative outing, concerts like this could come to rival those staged in the Encores! series in New York or by the Production Company in Aus…
By Stephen Collins
This is a genuinely terrific night in the musical theatre. Gypsy aside, there is nothing to touch it currently playing in London in terms of value for money and sheer, unr…
By Stephen Collins
The first fifteen minutes or so of Act Two are as good as, if not the equal of, any fifteen minutes of any musical currently playing on the West End (the final fifteen min…
By Stephen Collins
The play strikes one as more comic, at least in the first Act, than it is played here under James Grieve's direction. More Thin Blue Line and less Z Cars might have helped…
By Stephen Collins
What is most admirable about Gary Lloyd's directorial vision here is that no attempt is made to recreate the film, the book or even the way this musical has been produced …
By Stephen Collins
Felicity Kendal is a triumph as the effervescent, self-indulgent diva that is Judith. Her throaty, raspy tones; the endless lighting and stubbing out of cigarettes; the ca…
By Stephen Collins
It has everything: dirty, jazzy songs sung lustily; knob jokes; fake brawls; knickers tossed to the audience; knob jokes; sex scenes of all kinds; an altercation with a ga…
By Stephen Collins
There is something undeniably fascinating about watching strangers find common ground, about seeing a team form in adverse circumstances, especially where, as here, the pa…
By Stephen Collins
American Buffalo Wyndham’s Theatre 2 May 2015 3 Stars Book Tickets His whole body is a snarl of anger, resentment, pain. His shaved head suggests an innate meanness,…
By Stephen Collins
There is no complaint about the writing. Frayn creates situations and conveys ideas quickly and cleverly. His knowledge of human kind and its foibles, the things which int…
By Stephen Collins
Directed by Robert Shaw, this fifty minute satirical monologue is well worth seeing for Olivia Poulet's gifted comic turn. She extracts the humour rather as a surgeon lanc…
By Stephen Collins
10 Best New Plays in London 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 –…
By Stephen Collins
Set firmly in its time, circa 1597, with costumes and accoutrements which establish an exotic, far away and, most importantly, bygone era, Munby avoids the great questions…
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 combination of sand, water, and romantic moon makes for a touching image towards the end of the play. It is beautifully lit by the talents of Charles Balfour and, for …
By Stephen Collins
Rufus Norris throws everything at the production. The result is garish, adolescent and intolerably dull. Too much show and too little style and substance. As Everyman, Chi…
By Stephen Collins
In the case of Betty Buckley as Carlotta, the casting was inspired. Her powerful and joyful rendition of I'm Still Here stopped the show. But it was Anita Dobson's self-de…
By Stephen Collins
Wicked Apollo Victoria Theatre 11 February 2015 5 Stars What are the chances of getting large audiences to come eight times a week to a musical about political propaganda,…
