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Reviewer : Jonathan Grant The Public Reviews Rating: By popular demand Steven Webb, accompanied by some wonderfully talented friends, returned to the Landor Theatre to perform his “A Spotlight On..” evening , first aired ten days earlier. The intimate venue was packed with Webb’s friends and colleagues lending a genuinely relaxed air to an evening of songs that [...]

Originally from Worcestershire, composer Tim Prottey-Jones studied music at Wolverhampton University and is now based in Birmingham. He released his first album, More With Every Line, in 2010 and another, Surrounded by the Sounds, last year. His new musical, After the Turn, opens for previews on 31st January at the Courtyard Theatre. Lucy Thackray caught [...]

Writer: August Strindberg Adaptor: Emily Juniper Director: Mark Leipacher Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Strindberg’s Miss Julie is a play that has truly stood the test of time – the themes of power and lust versus love are universal and enduring, as are its naturalistic style and eloquent text. When a play is this well [...]

Writer: Caryl Churchill Director: Max Stafford-Clark Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: Is Top Girls a historic relic of a play from the 80s or does it contain messages that still seem relevant today? The play has a quite strange structure. First performed in 1982, depicting Thatcher’s Britain, the first act is a huge dinner party to [...]

One of the trials for any writer is getting their new work from page to stage. Until you take the written word and hear it spoken it’s difficult for any playwright to really know if their idea works or not. Although writing is something of a solitary craft it needs the input of others to [...]

The last time I saw Ramin Karimloo at Café de Paris, he was stripped down to his underwear and belting out Kings Of Leon’s ‘Sex On Fire’ for the MADTrust fundraiser ‘West End Bares’. Wednesday night was a very different story, as the Les Misérables star was here to showcase some of the songs from [...]

Music: Glenn Buhr Choreography: David Bintley Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Beauty and the Beast is not one of the great classical ballets but the story of Belle and the cruel, vain prince enchanted to live as a beast as punishment for his thoughtless ways has a similar provenance to your Cinderellas and Sleeping Beauties and [...]

Book: Jon Conway Music & Lyrics: David Essex Director: Nikolai Foster Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: In 1980 I was there. In my local Odeon with a bunch of other giggly fourteen year olds holding our breath as David Essex made the terrifying circuit of Silverstone in Silver Dream Racer. I’ve always loved his breathy performance [...]