I should start talking about my experience on Saturday by admitting something: I haven’t read Alice Walker’s 1982 novel The Color Purple, or seen the Spielberg film adaptation from 1985; and so I went in completely fresh to view this new staging of Leicester Curve’s 2019 production. I’m counting myself incredibly lucky that this show […]
I felt incredibly lucky to have made my first trip to the Barn Theatre just prior to Christmas, seeing a delightfully fresh adaptation of Peter Pan. I vividly remember being absolutely bowled over by the creativity on display and the scope for potential, excited by what my next experience of their work would be. Lo […]
As my loyal readers and listeners to the Wheelie Stagey podcast will already know, Jason Robert Brown will forever have a piece of my heart and soul thanks to Bridges of Madison County. The ongoing lockdown has afforded me the opportunity to become acquainted with more of his work – notably Songs For A New […]
It feels remiss of me to be writing this so late after the event, but I wanted to acknowledge it anyway seeing as it was my final in person show of this year, before my hometown and the theatre’s locale moved back into Tier 3 restrictions in light of the pandemic that very same evening, […]
Now, I’m on record here and on my podcast staking my claim to Jesus Christ Superstar being my favourite score from Andrew Lloyd Webber, and I will live and die on that hill, but the more I become acquainted with the music and the show, Sunset Boulevard is a very close second. The show first […]
Imagine, if you will, the second lockdown putting pain to the opening of your show a day into rehearsals, and then deciding to put together a filmed version in 3 days. That’s exactly what’s happened with Falling Stars, a new musical revue celebrating the composers, collaborators and publishers of the 1920’s, and the result is […]
[title of show] was one of those that I knew a little about and had seen and heard some good buzz, but it had remained under my radar. I couldn’t see the show when it ran at the Landor with Simon Bailey and Scott Garnham because the space wasn’t accessible to me in my wheelchair, […]
As the UK braces itself for a second national lockdown and my plans for theatre this month (and let’s be realistic, probably longer) have been scuppered and the industry is again plunged into uncertainty, I’m once again reminded of my relationship with theatre as it’s moved from in person to digital. I definitely feel like […]
My 15th reading of The Night Circus, fundraising for Acting For Others! If you’d like to donate, please head to https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/KerrieNicholson Your donation will allow Acting For Others 14 member charities to support theatre workers of all kinds financially and emotionally, through times of need & with theatres across the country still dark, right now […]
It feels too late after the event to call this a review, but all the same I wanted to share a piece on what this show means to me. Stuart Matthew Price & Timothy Knapman’s Before After first came into my life back in 2014 – I attended the workshop performance at the St James […]
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