Lennox Theatre, October 21 6/10 Felicity Castagna’s racy novel about two teenaged girls behaving badly certainly has the makings of a movie, and perhaps a play – but this was not quite it. In adapting the book for the stage, Priscilla Jackman has lost some of the fizz and lightness…
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Hayes Theatre, October 18 8.5/10 Is A Little Night Music the most timeless musical ever penned? Taking their cue from the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, about couples being naughty in 1900 Sweden, its creators, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, looked at hypocrisy with forgiving amusement; as…
Reginald Theatre, October 4 9/10 Held in the wings while the plague passed, Damien Ryan’s Venus & Adonis became a feature film, instead. Twenty-one months later we finally have the play, and can luxuriate in its velvety prose, made all the plusher by incorporating several Shakespeare sonnets, lines from his…