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Words and music: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross Book: George Abbott and Richard Bissel Director: Richard Eyre Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: Old Broadway classics seem to flourish in the rarefied air of West Sussex and it is hard to shake the feeling that Chichester has done it again with a revival of The Pajama Game. [...]

Who is Laura Tisdall? You may not know her yet, but if you’re a part of the growing online theatre geek world, chances are you’ve come across the musical she composed and wrote the book and lyrics for, The In-Between. A full two-act musical, it has now been recorded as a concept album, its songs brought [...]

Music/Lyrics/Producer: Laura Tisdall Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: The In-Between wouldn’t look out of place as a TV mini-series on the sci-fi channel but for Composer/Lyricist/Producer Laura Tisdall there was only ever one medium that would work for her. Musical Theatre. The In-Between is the tale of the space between parallel worlds…The place where Flick Wimple [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe Director: Laurence Connor Choreographer: Gillian Lynne Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: Billed as ‘the most successful piece of entertainment of all time,’ The Phantom of the Opera is a musical titan. Its success and longevity makes it a target for impassioned praise and criticism, but this quarter-century celebration [...]

Dougal Irvine is one of the UK’s most exciting new musical theatre writers. A graduate of Birmingham University, Irvine went on to train at the Mountview Academy. After spending ten years working as an actor on such shows as Rent and Wicked, he wrote his own musical, Departure Lounge, which won Best New Musical at [...]

Books are everywhere at the moment. The Guardian have started their big autumn book swap, literature’s heavyweights are battling it out for the Man Booker Prize and the lauded, star-packed adaptation of John le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has hit the nation’s cinemas. Theatre is in on the literary action too, with this week’s [...]

The Wednesday matinee performance of Les Miserables – currently entering its twenty-sixth year in the West End – has just finished and outside the stage door, the street is already filling up with audience members wanting to meet the cast. I’m there too, waiting for the man who is currently playing the role of Javert; [...]

Writer: Jonathan Kiley Director: Brian Godfrey Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: I’ll come clean right away; panto isn’t really my cup of tea. But on a chilly December evening, Cardiff’s one and only pantomime, Cinderella, certainly provided some good entertainment. It’s hard not to smile when the theatre’s packed out with tiny kids, all excited and [...]