In a stark and arresting opening scene we see a man unzip himself from the body bag he is in, climb out and move centre stage to directly address the audience. It is typical of the searing boldness and dark humour of director Jamie Lloyd's Olivier Award-winning revival production of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco Theatre, Broadway) ★★★★★
Four decades from now on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea, the handsome and immaculately groomed Oliver (Darren Criss) spends his days contentedly confined to his stylish but tiny single-room apartment. He one-sidedly converses with his houseplant, HwaBoon (a far more amicable herbage than the man-eater Criss encountered Off-Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors), listens... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: Tammy Faye (The Palace Theatre, Broadway) ★★★1/2
Following the 2000 documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye, produced by World of Wonder and narrated by RuPaul, and the 2021 narrative feature adaptation of the same name that won Oscars for lead actress Jessica Chastain and the film's makeup and hairstyling, the tantalizing tale of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) is now on... Continue Reading →
