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SPEND, SPEND, SPEND - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (04/12/2024)
Wealth can be a blessing or a burden, and it’s the latter that tends to make for better storytelling, as is evidenced by this Steve Brown...
James Tradgett
Jan 32 min read


COME FROM AWAY - The Lowry, Salford (04/12/24)
It really is the best positive stereotype that Canadians are the nicest people in the world, and in the face of perhaps the worst act of...
James Tradgett
Jan 32 min read


WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - London County Hall (28/11/24)
Have you ever been present in the courtroom during a major criminal trial? This production of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE - Leeds Playhouse (22/11/24)
It’s a testament to the ability of any writer to effectively tell a story, that decades after their work’s initial publication, it’s...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


ROMEO + JULIET - Circle In The Square (10/11/24)
There have probably been about as many different interpretations of Shakespeare’s greatest love story as there are weekly audience...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


RAGTIME - New York City Centre (09/11/24)
In such a politically contentious period as this one, it seems pertinent that we look to history in order to find a degree of solace, to...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


TEETH - New World Stages (09/11/24)
[TW - Sensitive content] There are unhinged musicals, and then there’s this new adaptation of the 2007 horror film “Teeth”, which brings...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


MAYBE HAPPY ENDING - Belasco Theatre (08/11/24)
Whilst it’s true the majority of musicals tend to be based on prior existing source material, once in a while an original musical,...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


THE GREAT GATSBY - Broadway Theatre (07/11/24)
With the popularity of arguably F Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, and the unequivocally extravagant, lavish quality with which it is...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


OH, MARY! - Lyceum Theatre (07/11/24)
It is often said that humour is highly subjective, and it’s what tends to make comedy such a tough genre to sell, as not everyone laughs...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


STEREOPHONIC - Golden Theatre (07/11/24)
If we never knew we needed a play about sex, drugs and rock & roll, this exponent of David Adjmi and Will Butler , the latter a former...
James Tradgett
Jan 12 min read


THE OUTSIDERS - Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (06/11/24)
In times when friction between rich and poor is particularly high, it seems fitting that a musical adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s novel has...
James Tradgett
Dec 31, 20242 min read


SUFFS - Music Box Theatre (05/11/24)
There is something distinctly poetic about the timing of a show that tells the story of American suffrage coinciding not only with the US...
James Tradgett
Dec 31, 20242 min read
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