Author: Martin Gray
Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee – Review
It’s ✭✭✭✭✩ classy, classis Christie as the The Agatha Christie Theatre Company return to the King’s with the Queen of Crime’s only play to feature Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, says Martin Gray.
Eternal Love – Review
✭✭✭✩✩ Eternal zest
An entertaining and thought-provoking diversion, Howard Benton’s take on Abelard and Heloise is at the King’s theatre until Satuday.
Some Girl I Used to Know – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Diva Next Door
From Big Breakfast weather girl to Broadway star, the talents of Denise Van Outen have taken her a long way.
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Pure showbiz delight
Looking at this week’s offering at the King’s Theatre, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s panto season. There are star turns by Andy Gray and Grant Stott. A supporting cast of talented young lads and lasses. A speciality act or two…
Dial M For Murder – Review
✭✭✭✭✩ Hitchcock without a Hitch
A fascinating mix of naturalism and the dreamlike give this this touring production of the original play behind Hitchcock’s 1954 movie an added edge as it arrives at the King’s.
Review – The Shawshank Redemption
There is a compelling piece of theatre in this adaptation Steven King’s novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, at the Assembly Rooms on George Street.
Review – Dreamboats and Petticoats
It’s 1961 and a bunch of school pals are hanging out at the local youth club, falling in and out of love and dreaming of stardom. And that’s all you need to know about Dreamboats and Petticoats.
Review – Blood Brothers
★★★★☆ A triumphant tragedy:
Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers is nearly 30 years old – and on its umpteemth tour round the country. But Martin Gray finds that it is still fresh.
Review – Bohemian Rhapsody: The Music of Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody is really something – Something special. In not resurrecting Mercury, it refuses to buy into the idea that Queen was a one-man band, but belts out the numbers in fine form.
Review – Ghost: The Musical
★★★★☆ Puts the spectre in spectacular:
Sam Wheat has it all – a great job, a great home and most of all, a great woman. Then he loses it all, killed in an apparently random street mugging.
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