The Color Purple (Curve At Home – Stream)

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 […]

Sunset Boulevard (Curve Theatre at Home)

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 […]

Oliver! Curve Theatre Leicester, 12th December 2015

Over the years, Lionel Bart’s adaptation of the Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist is one that has always followed me around. The film musical was among the first I saw, my last outing to see the UK tour at my local theatre the Bristol Hippodrome with Neil Morrissey, Samantha Barks and Iain Fletcher in 2013 inspired me […]

Finding Neverland 11/10/2012

So, I have indulged one of my childhood fantasies- on Thursday I went away to Neverland, courtesy of the brand new musical from Harvey Weinstein and an incredible team of people: Finding Neverland, based on the hit film of the same name. The musical’s current home is the Curve Theatre in Leicester, which I have […]