Neil Gaiman's Coraline to become 'dark, spangly' stage musical | Theatre
Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas’s adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025
Source: theguardian.com
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Will there be some Christmas miracles?
Source: whatsonstage.com
From exhilarating Oliver! to a mardy Beast in the east – three of the best Christmas family shows
Lionel Bart’s classic musical is all light and shade in James Brining’s in-the-round revival; actors and audience ad-lib with aplomb in a seaside Beauty and the Beast; plus, a camp and catchy Snow Queen
Source: theguardian.com
Oliver! review: This revival is an absolute whopper of a show chock full of pre-loaded ear-worms, writes PATRICK MARMION
PATRICK MARMION: What is the greatest British musical of all time? The cascading Les Mis? The haunting Phantom? Or maybe the saucy, evergreen Rocky Horror Show?
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Review: OLIVER!, Leeds Playhouse
Family show retains enough edge to honour its sources, providing thrills and spectacle and that wonderful, wonderful score
Source: broadwayworld.com
Oliver! review — a glorious show with the gothic flair of Tim Burton
James Brining’s invigorating, large-scale production for the Leeds Playhouse restores some grit and grime to the story of the orphan who escapes workhouse drudgery
Lionel Bart Oliver A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Achristmas Carol Oliver Twist Consider Yourself
Source: thetimes.co.uk
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Bord Gáis: Roald Dahl's badness provides a guilty pleasure
The children in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are greedy, nasty and bad to the bone. And they get magnificently punished by Willy Wonka for their transgressions inside the factory. The whole scenario is so at odds with contemporary attitudes to children and parenting that it provokes a hilarious level of mind-blowing dissonance.
Source: independent.ie
Oliver! review – much-loved musical is revived in Leeds
Lionel Bart’s classic is back on stage
Source: whatsonstage.com
Photos: First Look At OLIVER! at Leeds Playhouse
Leeds Playhouse has today released the highly anticipated production photos from its spectacular staging of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! now open in its Quarry theatre until Saturday 27 January.
Source: broadwayworld.com
Oliver! to be revived this winter at Leeds Playhouse
The much-loved musical returns
Source: whatsonstage.com