An unquestionable legend in the world of musical theatre, Ruthie Henshall has astounded audiences in London’s West End and on Broadway, served as a judge on ITV’s Dancing on Ice and is an Olivier award winner and five-time nominee. Just before she stepped on stage in London’s Phoenix Theatre as Mama Morton in Chicago, she spoke to The Reviews Hub’s Fraser ...
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INTERVIEW: Joshua McTaggart – Devil With The Blue Dress
In 2016 Kevin Armento was working on a play about the women involved in the 1995 Monica Lewinsky scandal, in the confident expectation that one of them, Hilary Clinton, was about to become the USA's first female President. Then, Donald Trump got the job and everything changed. Or did it? The story at the heart of the play did not ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Tristan Bernays talks Alzheimer’s, Old Fools and his future as a playwright
After the success of his play Boudica at the Globe Theatre last year, 2018 is getting off to a good start for Tristan Bernays. His musical Teddy, which premiered at Southwark Playhouse in 2016 is soon to return to London for a 10-week run at the Vaults and his new play Old Fools is about to open at Southwark Playhouse. ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: West End Star Oliver Savile Talks Sondheim’s Company in Aberdeen
Oliver Savile has been a busy man since his graduation from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2010. He has graced the West End stage in The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and Les Miserables; he has toured the UK with Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and has toured the world with Mamma Mia. He sat down ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Niall Ransome plans a sobering Christmas at The Bunker
When audiences are flocking to see Barnum at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory this Christmas, they may spot that, next door in the subterranean Bunker Theatre, there is something far removed from the fun of the circus. FCUK’D offers an alternative festive experience, focussing on the emotive topic of runaway children, and its writer/director Niall Ransome took time off from treading ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Scottish panto favourite Johnny Mac talks to The Reviews Hub
Johnny Mac is no stranger to pantomime. This year, as he treads the boards of Glasgow’s King’s Theatre for the very first time, he sat down with The Reviews Hub’s Fraser MacDonald to talk about his journey to playing Muddles in Sleeping Beauty. A Glasgow boy at heart, Johnny is chuffed to be back on home turf after another mammoth ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Scottish Favourite Juliet Cadzow is back in Pantoland
An instantly recognisable face to many from TV hits such as Scotch and Wry, Dr Who, Still Game or as Balamory’s bus driver Edie McCredie, Juliet Cadzow returns to pantomime at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre as wicked queen Carabosse in Sleeping Beauty. She sat down with The Reviews Hub’s Fraser MacDonald to talk Stanley Baxter, River City and what else she ...
Read More »INTERVIEW: Christopher Jordan-Marshall on his West End debut as Sky in Mamma Mia!
The Reviews Hub’s Lauren Humphreys caught up with Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate Christopher Jordan-Marshall as he makes his West End debut as Sky in Mamma Mia! at the Novello Theatre. It seems like a short while ago I saw you as a student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland starring as the Emcee in Cabaret. Tell us what happened ...
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