The new teaser of the film version of “The Little Mermaid” shows for the first time the sea witch Ursula played by Melissa McCarthy
Disney has released a new teaser for The Little Mermaid, Rob Marshall’s musical reimagining of the original 1989 animated film. In the new adaptation, Ariel (Holly Bailey),…
Bonnie & Clyde: they shoot, you snore
“London’s most wanted musical” runs the tagline to this West End premiere of a Broadway flop (it ran for 36 performances in 2011), nodding not so much…
Bonnie & Clyde: they shoot, you snore
“London’s most wanted musical” runs the tagline to this West End premiere of a Broadway flop (it ran for 36 performances in 2011), nodding not so much…
All Star Musicals, review: a mixed bag of performances hampered by ITV tackiness
Ever idly wondered how a rugby player might look dressed up as PT Barnum? Or if a weatherman can rap like a Founding Father? Probably not, but…
Spring 2022’s hottest 100 tickets, from theatre and films to art exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS Henry Moore: Sharing For Spanning six decades of the British sculptor’s work, this intimate survey has been produced in collaboration with his daughter, Mary, who has selected…
Mimma was a waste of David Suchet’s talents – and our anti-war sympathies
It does not require a detective of the international stature of Hercule Poirot to conclude that this is a timely week for a “new musical of war…
Moulin Rouge! Piccadilly theatre, review: the perfect way to celebrate our post-pandemic freedom
Magnifique timing: as the curtain rises on a more carefree, post-pandemic period, those restrictions lifted, a restorative big party has got started in high style in the…
She Loves Me, Crucible, Sheffield, review: a delicious treat that’s ideal Christmas fare
What a treat this is: a delicious romcom, staged with real wit and elan, so that it feels genuinely both romantic and very funny – not something…
The story behind Cabaret’s glittering costumes
Bowles is all about shock tactics, which is why the mint green fake mink coat Scutt gives her seems perfect. It may even kickstart a trend on…
Bring It On, review: this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical doesn’t dazzle like Hamilton, but the routines are great
At the time Lin-Manuel Miranda was working on Hamilton, he was also co-writing the hip hoppy score and lyrics to this 2011 Broadway musical based on the…
Why Michael Jackson was too big to be cancelled
“History moves fast. You might say this person was a drug addict or did this or that. But art exists beyond people’s lives in the end. So…
Beverley Knight tells ‘rat a—d’ theatregoers to stay away after they disrupt West End musical
Another person tweeted: “People were drinking throughout, so by the second half they were joining in with the singing and drowning the cast out. “There was a…
Being in Stephen Sondheim’s company left me a babbling mess
Twenty years ago, I was invited to the scariest party imaginable. It was in New York at the legendary Bemelmans Bar, an exquisite Fabergé egg of a…
The perfect poetry of Sondheim’s rhymes
Rhyme, of course, was only one weapon in his armoury. There is comic wordplay. The girls in Sunday in the Park with George sing of their two soldier suitors:…
Stephen Sondheim making ‘virile, surreal and inventive’ show at time of death
Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre’s most influential composer-lyricist of the last half-century, was working on his most “virile and inventive” work yet at the time of his death…
The Stephen Sondheim I knew: Cameron Mackintosh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and more remember
Stephen was my best teacher in musical theatre. His notes were very concise and specific and he could sometimes be harsh. He told me once not to…