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Review: Blood Brothers, Grand Opera House, York, until Saturday
9:53am Wednesday 3rd December 2008
IMPRESARIO Bill Kenwright has wanted West End actress and chart singer Marti Webb to play Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers for 20 years.
Comments (0)Charles Hutchinson previews 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
9:35am Saturday 29th November 2008
WHAT happened to all the deaths in theatre? Why did they die out? Gore used to be the big draw, as if a playwright couldn’t make a point without a multiple pile-up.
Charles Hutchinson previews This Child, York Theatre Royal, tonight at 7.45pm
2:29pm Friday 28th November 2008
Translated by Nigel Gearing, Joel Pommerat’s French play This Child is a collection of ten stories that draws on interviews with parents who brought up their children on a housing estate in Normandy.
Review: Sixteen Up, York Theatre Royal.
2:27pm Friday 28th November 2008
Branded “a sort of love story”, Box Clever’s latest production, Sixteen Up, is theatre at its most raw.
Review: Vienna Festival Ballet, Swan Lake, Grand Opera House, York
2:27pm Friday 28th November 2008
My night at the ballet brought mixed opinions. I’ll start with the negatives so as to end on a high, as I did enjoy the evening immensely.
Preview: Blood Brothers, Grand Opera House, York, December 1 to 6
11:23am Friday 28th November 2008
WEST End actress and singer Marti Webb is playing Mrs Johnstone on tour in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, and not before time according to impresario Bill Kenwright.
Charles Hutchinson reviews Death Of An Anarchist
8:57am Thursday 27th November 2008
THIS summer, Michael Hugo swept all before him as a vacuum cleaner repairman in Deborah McAndrew’s dark comedy Vacuum in moorland Glaisdale.
Charles Hutchinson reviews The Lady Boys of Bangkok, Devils & Angels 10th Anniversary Tour, Grand Opera House, York
8:19am Wednesday 26th November 2008
THE Lady Boys were in town for the first time, and rather more ladies than boys made up Monday’s excitable crowd of 750. At least I think they were ladies.
Review: The Wiz, York Stage Youth, Grand Opera House, York
12:44pm Tuesday 25th November 2008
THE Wiz blows a modern twister through The Wizard Of Oz. Out goes the yellow brick road, replaced by cubed disco-light flooring, fit for Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, who starred in the 1978 film version of Charlie Smalls’s Broadway soul musical.
Boys will be Lady Boys...
9:20am Friday 21st November 2008
MEET Tina, Tammy, Sonya, Leyla, Nice and their fellow feline Lady Boys of Bangkok, and their tour manager/translator Anwar, in the Dress Circle Bar at the Grand Opera House.
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Review: Blood Brothers, Grand Opera House, York, until Saturday
IMPRESARIO Bill Kenwright has wanted West End actress and chart singer Marti Webb to play Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers for 20 years.
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