Everyone knows Tina Turner. Most people also know her story: rags to riches – to rags, to even bigger riches. Whether you do know it or not – it’s a great story and makes for a great musical. Especially with Tina’s back catalogue of music. Born Anna Mae Bullock… Continue reading
Dear Evan Hansen, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Originally premiering in Washington D.C. in 2015 “Dear Evan Hansen” went on to take Broadway by storm in 2016 sweeping up awards as it did so. It ran there until 2022 but had already hit the West End and the big… Continue reading
Les Miserables (or “Les Mis”) is one of the most successful musicals of all time. It is also the longest running musical in the West End, and is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary. It has some of the best known songs in musical theatre (“I Dreamed a Dream” being… Continue reading
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Released in 1950 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the first of seven novels in the fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. It is the best known of the series and a… Continue reading
Ghost Stories, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. Everyone likes a good scare. Don’t they? There are scares aplenty here in this wonderful piece of theatre written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. The title is Ghost Stories – and that’s what we get. Although it’s much more than that… Continue reading
An Inspector Calls, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. J.B. Priestley’s best-known work for the stage premiered 80 years ago and is still as popular as ever. It is considered one of the classics of modern British theatre and is a staple of GCSE English Literature. This version directed by… Continue reading
Girl on the Train, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. The Girl on the Train is a 2015 novel by Paula Hawkins which topped the New York Times best sellers list for thirteen weeks upon release. The movie rights were acquired before it was even published and the film starring… Continue reading
Ghost The Musical, The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. The movie Ghost was released in 1990 and was a huge commercial success grossing over $500 million and becoming the highest grossing film of the year – and at that time the third highest grossing film of all time. It starred… Continue reading
The Rocky Horror Show. The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. It’s hard to believe The Rocky Horror Show is over 50 years old, and this UK tour shows it has no signs of slowing down – it’s still selling out and is still as fresh as it ever was. … Continue reading
Bat out of Hell. The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. First premiered here in the UK (Manchester) in 2017 this is a jukebox musical based on the hits of Jim Steinman – and more famously Meat Loaf – as you’d probably guess from the title. I had no idea how… Continue reading
