From the category archives:
The last time I was here to tell you about new shows in That London, one half of a beloved 1970s TV sitcom couple was about to make his final stage appearance; today the other half of that couple goes into previews, although hopefully she’ll have many more roles still to come. It is, of [...]
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Previewing from today, the National Theatre’s big comedy for the Spring/Summer season is Dion Boucicault’s 1841 romp London Assurance. Starring theatre stalwart Simon Russell Beale (no relation to Ian,) you’d think the presence of Celebrity Lesbian Fiona Shaw playing a character called Lady Gay Spanker would be the main attraction here. In fact you should [...]
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When he appeared as a guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks last year, a lot of us here at LC Towers were rather taken with Tom Basden. So you’d think the London debut (running for just two weeks) of his award-winning play Party, in which he also stars, would be an easy recommendation. However this [...]
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Just like buses, you wait ages for a London theatre opening with a lowculture connection then two come along at once. (Actually they came along yesterday but Damages deserves a day to itself.) First we’re in the West End where Kim Cattrall stars in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Cattrall is of course best known for [...]
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First up in 2010’s big-name productions in the West End is the British premiere of a big US hit, Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed, previewing from tonight. While Keira Knightley continues with her stage debut, her boyfriend Rupert Friend (who is totally famous in his own right and not just as Mr Keira, [...]
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LOWCULTURE THEATRE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
We’re near the end of 2009 so time to look back on the high and lowlights of the year. The others will be here with more traditional lowculture categories like TV and film, but this year we also started looking at how proper telly talent was appearing on stage in [...]
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Because Kylie’s not the only Minogue who can do Christmas….
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This is a bit of nostalgia for those of us from the Yorkshire region, but if other regions had similar, let me know and I’ll hunt them down and add them…
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Because some things will never get old…
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The first production and subsequent film version of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice starred Jane Horrocks as the title character, a painfully shy girl with a talent for impersonating the great divas – Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield. Since then it’s become a bit of a cliche to say that [...]
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I see a little silhouetto of a muppet.
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I saw them perform it "live" on GMTV this morning and I nearly spluttered out my tea. 