“The Girl on the Train” (2015) is currently showing at Richmond Theatre and has been required reading for millions of train commuters – over 20 million copies sold – and a very successful film starring Emily Blunt was released in 2016. Its latest incarnation as a play has been adapted […]
John O’Brien certainly enjoyed Peter Pan at the Richmond Theatre and here is what he has to say about it:- As a Citizen Smith fan back in the 1970s it is a real thrill to see Wolfy (Robert Lindsay) after all these years as Captain James Hook. Robert Lindsay looks […]
The Classic Screen to Stage Theatre Company have adapted the justly famous Hollywood film Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, for the stage. It’s currently touring Britain before hopefully transferring to the West End. It’s on all this week at the Richmond Theatre and is a terrific production […]
“High Society,” is currently on at Richmond Theatre. One of the classics of modern musical comedy written by the great Cole Porter has been wonderfully revived and rethought in a sparkling new production from the Bros Theatre Company. Cast, crew and creatives have done a fantastic job in putting on […]
My friend John O’Brien has just seen The Habit Of Art at Richmond Theatre and here is his splendid review:- The Habit of Art (2009) by Alan Bennett is a play about a play. Think of Velasquez’s great masterpiece Las Meninas (1656) for an analogy. The set shows a rehearsal […]
My friend John O’Brien went on my behalf to review Salad Days at Richmond Theatre, on this week. Salad Days is an utterly delightful musical comedy. Written in 1954 it is has become a classic of English wit and whimsy. It is said to be The Queen’s favourite musical. It […]
Sasha Regan’s All Male Iolanthe is absolutely delightful. I can’t think of a better way to spend a couple of hours on a May evening. Having an all-male cast wonderfully doubles all the Victorian humour in Gilbert & Sullivan’s original comic opera. Sixteen male fairies on stage in ballet kit […]
Part romance-fraud, part gas-lighting thriller, “Love From A Stranger” – Agatha Christie’s gripping psychological drama – is showing this week at the Richmond Theatre in a winning revival directed by Lucy Bailey. Last year Lucy Bailey made her name with her production of “Witness for the Prosecution” in the atmospheric […]
Really fascinating play. “Pressure”, written and starring David Haig is a “thriller about the weather”. It’s about James Stagg (David Haig) the weather forecaster for D-Day, Monday the 5th June 1944. He averted a catastrophe and saved 80,000 lives by persuading General Eisenhower (Malcolm Sinclair) to delay the invasion, against […]
A fine and timely adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic “Great Expectations” is on all this week at the Richmond Theatre. Adapted for the stage By Ken Bentley and directed by Sophie Boyce Couzens, this classic novel written in 1860 stands the test of time and has much to say […]
John O’Brien saw “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” on behalf of the blog this week at Richmond Theatre:- I was 13 years old when “Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em” was first broadcast on BBC 1 back in 1973. Written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford it ran for three […]
My friend John O’Brien reviewed “The Weir” at Richmond Theatre for the blog last night:- “The Weir”, written By Conor McPherson in 1997, when aged just twenty five, is a gem. It is on all this week at the Richmond Theatre and is directed by Adele Thomas. They have a […]
