Simon Callow’s Uplifting, Yet Thought-Provoking, New Film Version of A Christmas Carol
13/12/2018
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow: Adaptation by Tom Cairns and Simon Callow; Production designed by Marie Lanna; Cinematography by David Raedeker. Screened at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 11.12.2018. (JPr)
Simon Callow in A Christmas Carol
The New One: A Brilliant Birbiglia on the Couch with Baby
25/11/2018
Mike Birbiglia’s The New One: Cort Theatre, New York. 19.11.2018. (CSa)
Mike Birbiglia in The New One
For Only An Hour is Something Rather Memorably ‘Rich and Strange’
18/11/2018
Sardoville’s For Only An Hour with Phil Sanger: The Blue Elephant Theatre, London, 16.11.2018. (JO’D)
Phil Sanger in For Only An Hour
Comedy in Music from Rainer Hersch’s Entertaining Memories of Victor Borge
16/10/2018
Rainer’s Hersch’s Victor Borge: Rainer Hersch with Danny Driver (piano), Laura Ruhl Vidal (soprano). Cadogan Hall, London, 12.10.2018. (JPr)
Rainer Hersch © Hans Staartjes
Weathering the Storm: Zeller’s Mystery Provides More Questions than Answers
14/10/2018
Florian Zeller, The Height of the Storm (translated by Christopher Hampton): Wyndham’s Theatre, London. 7.10.2018. (CSa)
Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins in The Height of the Storm (c) Tristram Kenton
John Wilson’s On the Town with Talented Cast and Outstanding LSO is a Worthy Tribute to Bernstein
26/08/2018
Prom 57 – On the Town (Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) concert performance: Soloists, Students from ArtsEd, London Symphony Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.8.2018. (JPr)
Finale of On the Town at the BBC Proms (c) BBC/Mark Allan.
Thanks to Barry Humphries and Meow Meow Weimar Germany’s Silenced Voices are Heard Once More
13/07/2018
Various compoers, Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret: Barry Humphries (conférencier/voice), Meow Meow (cabaret artist), Satu Vänskä (musical director/voice), Aurora Orchestra, Barbican Theatre, London, 12.7.2018. (JPr)
Barry Humphries and Meow Meow
Kelli O’Hara’s Anna is the Glory of The King and I Revival at the London Palladium
05/07/2018
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I: London Palladium, 4.7.2018. (JPr)
The King and I Ken Watanabe (King of Siam) & Kelli OHara (Anna) (c) Matthew Murphy
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