A new musical proves it – Sylvia Pankhurst is the feminist icon we need
While her mother Emmeline has traditionally been the most famous Pankhurst, the Old Vic’s new show is just the latest…
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How Burt Bacharach rewrote the rules of pop
The composer’s music was often described as “easy listening” – but it appealed alike to jazz musicians, popstars, rock bands…
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Burt Bacharach: a direct line to a lost musical world
The effect of seeing Bacharach live at the Royal Festival hall was to be hit by more top-40 songs that…
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Prince Andrew: The Musical – can you really make comedy out of anything?
Kieran Hodgson's post-Christmas royal knees-up may be good, goofy fun, but it’s ill-suited to the sinister subject matter.
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Mandy Patinkin on Stephen Sondheim: “I got to be in the room with Shakespeare. Who gets that?”
The actor reflects on the death of the great American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
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Why Eva Perón remains a classic of queer theatre seventy years after her death
Copi and an Argentinian classic of queer theatre.
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