Category: Theatre Reviews

July 24, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, June 27 8/10 Gunshots ring out in a pitch-black theatre. We, the audience, might well be suspects rather than mere witnesses, so perverse is the reality of City of Angels, a 1989 musical about a writer adapting his detective novel into a screenplay, the resultant film being enacted…

July 21, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

The Neilson Nutshell, June 28 7/10 In case we, the audience, are as thick as planks, the Prologue lumbers on and ensures we know that from the moment the star-cross’d lovers lay eyes upon each other, the die is cast: they will take their own lives. Both Romeo and Juliet…

July 2, 2023 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Capitol Theatre, June 22 8/10 So you think you’ve seen some coups de theatre in your time? Think again. Beauty and the Beast dusts the eyes with so much implausible visual magic and theatrical sleight-of-hand as to gently blind most people most of the time to the show’s imperfections. Even…