Monthly Archives: July 2017

Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell, released in 1977, was one of the most influential and iconic albums of all time. There are 17 great hits and 43 million copies have been sold worldwide. Jim Steinman has now turned the … Continue reading →

Ferdinand von Schirach’s Terror is not your usual TV courtroom drama. Histrionics are eschewed. A high-jacked plane is heading towards a packed football stadium. Ignoring orders, a fighter pilot shots the jet down, killing 164 passengers. By so doing he … Continue reading →

American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play is set in the offices of a notorious New York magazine and is a satire on office politics. Ambitious, frustrated editorial assistants fight amongst themselves when they discover there are enormous financial rewards in being … Continue reading →

DC Moore’s Common is described as an epic tale of England’s lost land. I have a sneaking suspicion that I might have enjoyed it more had I been watching it in a foreign language I did not know with sur-titles. … Continue reading →

Anthony Biggs takes his farewell as artistic director of Jermyn Street Theatre with the UK premiere of Maxim Gorky’s play about police corruption. Written in 1908 The Last Ones was banned in Russia and had only one performance in his … Continue reading →

Studs Terkel, noted American oral historian and broadcaster, published in 1974 his landmark Working, in which, casting his net wide, he interviewed a great variety of working people and got them to talk about what they do all day and … Continue reading →

The Taj Express musical is given the full vibrant Bollywood extravaganza treatment and will have a special appeal for Asian family audiences who were out in force. The performance relies for its success on the relentless vigorous dancing and the … Continue reading →