The vultures were swirling on press night. They had come to scavenge the wreckage of a sure-fire car crash: a musical about Ernest Hemingway – an idea so ridiculous it might give ‘The...
Well, how’s that for timing? The same week The Guardian blows the lid on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, new theatre company Lucid Muse stages the first major revival of Steve...
Jordan Herskowitz is a professional mascot with a large costume, complete with bull’s head, but inside it he’s all human heart. He has a story worth sharing and if his delivery...
Writer Benjamin Askew has Renaissance aspirations. He has played fast and loose with Roman source material to write a lyrical drama packed with modern referents.The eponymous Messalina was a former...
‘You smell of menopause,’ Hildy’s twentysomething, ex-addict son comes home to tell her. And then, ‘I hope you die.’ It proves one insult too many, both for put-upon,...
As part of the Tricycle’s South African season, this musical follows the legend of Koos Sas, the last ‘bushman robber’ who, in 1917, escaped jail after being wrongfully accused of...
This game, peppy production of a disappointingly flawed musical from Irving Berlin originally boasted Broadway belter Ethel Merman in the outsize central role when it premiered in 1950. Without...
A show about three world-famous cyclists performed on a couple of plastic chairs may not sound like everyone’s idea of a good time, but you needn’t be a cycling nerd to enjoy...
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