Posted by Fourthwall Magazine
Preparation for the Olympics are well on their way and word on the street is that theatres, certainly across the Capital, are practically begging producers to fill slots in June and July. Although the Evening Standard newspaper is reporting that tourism for the Olympics and Jubilee celebra...
Posted by Ian Watson
LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! The BBC love a bit of LIVE don’t they? They spend so much money sending people out to report LIVE for no reason whatsoever because they just can’t get enough of it. Some poor, soaked and miserable journo has to stand outside the houses of parliament to talk about ...
Posted by Ian Watson
Finally! We can drop the whole, “We’re not the X-Factor. Honestly!” nonsense and get down to a reality sing-off that resembles reality. The good old BBC decided, of course, to do things a little differently though by just having two teams battle it out instead of all four. Why mig...
Posted by Ian Watson
Before you ask, yes I have watched both ‘battle rounds’ of The Voice this weekend. Anyone who was on twitter, and if you weren’t then it’s probably time to pull the red chord and get the nurse to tell you what it is, will know that I was tweeting my bitchy little bum off thro...
Posted by Jonathan Mandell
A man was walking in Times Square near the TKTS discount theater booth wearing underpants and carrying a huge wooden cross. It says something about the peculiar season we are in that many theatergoers just assumed he was promoting a show – perhaps Jesus Christ Superstar? It’s to...
Posted by Ian Watson
So the ‘blind’ auditions are over at last. They may have been about as blind as the ‘all-seeing-eye’ but more on that later. I want to get the good stuff out of the way before I rant about the auditions because, regardless of what may or may not be wrong with it, we’ve...
Posted by Ian Watson
Do you ever get the feeling that the world has cocked a formerly deaf ear in your direction? I’m starting to suspect that those savvy telly types at The Voice are listening to tutting head shakers like me and chucking in a few tweaks, albeit too late. Week three has been something of a turnin...
Posted by Westend Producer
Hello dear. This time I thought it might be rather nice if I dealt with rehearsals – and how you actors should conduct yourselves. Unfortunately sometimes I get reports of actors spending all their time munching on my chocolate hob-nobs, and after 4 weeks of this it adds an unnecessary expense...
Posted by Ian Watson
This week we saw The Voice settle into its boots a bit more and start to look, to me, more like the program it isn’t, but at least a program I can get into. If you’re going to review a series then not liking it from day one is like deciding to run the London Marathon dragging a sled ful...
Posted by Fourthwall Magazine
March has been an epic theatre month. Let’s quickly run through everything I’ve seen this month; The Glorious Ones at the Landor, Shivered at Southwark Playhouse, Taming of the Shrew at Richmond, Dracula at Catford Broadway, The King’s Speech and Sweeney Todd in the West End,...
