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Writer: Agatha Christie Director: Joe Harmston Reviewer: Sheila Cornelius The Public Reviews Rating: The ornate three-tier Richmond Theatre is an excellent venue for Agatha Christies’ ‘Murder on the Nile’, first staged in 1944. Echoing a more leisurely era, that of the 1930s, a gin advert projected onto velvet curtains sets the scene: passengers aboard the paddle-steamer Lotus will [...]

Writers: Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran Music: Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman Directors: Bill Kenwright and Keith Strachan Reviewer: Sheila Cornelius The Public Reviews Rating: Last night at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley, the audience were treated to a string of jukebox hits from a time most of them would recall. If the plot of ‘Save the Last Dance’ [...]

Book/Music/Lyrics: Eric Idle Music: John du Prez Director: Christopher Luscombe Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: The tongue is firmly rooted in the cheek with Spamalot, a musical based on the eccentric sense of humour of Monty Python and akin to its celluloid sister (The Holy Grail) this Bill Kenwright produced tour is as cheap as it [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: What can you possibly say about Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that has not been said before? Joseph was the first professional musical theatre show my parents took me to as a child and consequently started my love for [...]

Writer: Alan Ayckbourn Director: Robin Hereford Reviewer: Richard Loftus The Public Reviews Rating:   Season’s Greetings makes a perfectly timed visit to Theatre Royal Bath as we draw into the depths of December. With John Cleese having switched the Christmas lights on only weeks before, the streets were lit up guiding you into the festive Ayckbourn classic. Ayckbourn’s [...]

Book/Music/Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse Director: Bob Thomson Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: As stories go, the redemptive tale of the self confessed “Martyr of his own generosity” Ebenezer Scrooge is perhaps one of the best loved of the season. Many productions of Dickens’ popular novella A Christmas Carol are performed around the globe every year, and perhaps [...]

Music: Willy Russell Book/Lyrics: Willy Russell Directors: Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Sarah Cundill The Public Reviews Rating: This is the story of two brothers, born to a poverty-stricken single mother of many, Mrs Johnstone. She is just about beginning to make ends meet after getting a job cleaning for a well-off, childless couple, Mr and Mrs [...]

Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Katy Evans The Public Reviews Rating: Bill Kenwright’s perennially touring Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arrives at Cardiff’s New Theatre this week with Any Dream Will Do runner-up Keith Jack finally getting his chance in the loin cloth. Jack, runner up to eventual winner [...]