The Theatre Royal Norwich today have announced that Rufus Hound will star in the award-winning production of One Man, Two Guvnors when it visits Norwich from December 4-8 following in the footsteps of James Corden, who recently won a Tony Award for playing the same role. Rufus is one of the best-known and well-loved comics…
Shakespearian scholars may have to revise their thesis for, if we are to believe Ed Hall’s vibrant staging of The Winter’s Tale, Delia Smith’s now infamous Carrow Road touchline cry of ‘let’s be having yer’ is in fact a long lost line from The Bard. Then again, any production that also includes the line ‘take…
Norwich’s Theatre Royal have announced a number of major productions for their new season from August to December, alongside runs of major musicals Oliver! and Dirty Dancing previously announced. The line-up includes some of the biggest names in theatre, with dance, drama, comedy and musicals among the schedule. Matthew Bourne’s Play Without Words opens the…
Ok, so it has more neon pink that Grease, more hair references than Hairspray and more camp than La Cage aux Folles but, try as you might, it’s hard not be won over by the sheer feel-good factor of Legally Blonde. Without ever having seen the original film it is hard to make comparison as…
It’s not often that The Rocky Horror Show anthem ‘The Time Warp’ features in a pantomime but, for Norwich Theatre Royal’s Sleeping Beauty, its inclusion is just one sign of a production packed with inventiveness. In these tough economic times for the arts it’s heartening to see a festive show packed to the rafters with…
There may be trouble ahead, but while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance. And dance away any troubles they certainly do in a spectacular that doesn’t put a foot out of place. Irving Berlin’s musical first aired as the 1935 movie vehicle for Fred Astaire and Ginger…
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, declares Shakespeare’s Henry IV, but it’s the Bard’s King Lear that provides the redemption for the troubled head of King George III in Alan Bennett’s historical epic. It is now 20 years since the play was first staged at the National Theatre and it’s been rarely performed…
You can choose your friends but not your family. Despite the blood ties it’s surprising that clan gatherings don’t come with a health warning. Or at least that’s the impression Alan Ayckbourn would give us with his bleak look at the familial festive gathering. Hostess Belinda is frantically trying to marshal her husband and assembled…