Monthly Archives: September 2012

Soul Sister is advertised as inspired by the music, life and times of Ike and Tina Turner; but if you are looking for biography you will have to read her book, I, Tina or watch the 1993 movie, What’s Love … Continue reading →

CBS, who had just had a huge success with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Cinderella, commissioned Cole Porter to write a 90-minute musical especially for television. Aladdin aired in 1958. Now, thanks to Ian Marshall Fisher, who has been reviving … Continue reading →

An 86-year-old lady doesn’t want the Victorian Methodist Chapel where she and her family have long worshipped to be converted into modern luxury flats and protests with a sit-in. Her middle-aged son, a builder who is broke and cannot pay … Continue reading →

I was in tears every day during the fortnight of the Olympic Games; oddly, I very rarely cry when I am in the theatre. A revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel changed all that. The story is set at the … Continue reading →

Terry Johnson, who had once engineered a meeting between Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe, here imagines a meeting between Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dali. Hysteria, presently touring the regions, has lost the sub-title, Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional … Continue reading →