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...Zizi Strallen as Q, the peacemaker who finally speaks out, Carly Bawden’s Anna, driven to addiction by the strain of compromise, and Angela Marie Hurst’s Dee, the reluctant star, all deliver the songs superbly...
...Like the river, Rickson’s staging (featuring original songs by PJ Harvey) is never still: people and stories surge across the stage; fortunes rise and fall with the tide....
...Sarah Perry is the author of novels including ‘Melmoth’ and ‘The Essex Serpent’, and is chancellor of the University of Essex....
...The three actors multitask their way through the action wearing white football kits and deploying song, shadow-play, magic tricks, mud, blood, balloons and sardonic humour....
...“It’s an old song,” sings Melanie La Barrie’s mischievous Hermes at the opening of Hadestown. “It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy. It’s a sad song. We’re gonna sing it anyway.”...
...Sarah Janet Maas’s interest in fantasy took off in the wake of the September 11 attacks....
...The message is voiced in “Heroes”, the David Bowie song that opens the show and that gives it its title: “We can be heroes, just for one day.”...
...Today, five people are celebrating birthdays, so each gets a spirited rendition — from everyone — of Denmark’s cheery birthday song....
...Marc Wootton, as Marek, stops the show with his ridiculous yet oddly moving song for Sylvia....
...And music sits at the heart of Conor McPherson’s stage adaptation of Pawel Pawlikowski’s 2018 film — from Chopin to gloriously delivered Polish folk songs and choral work and delicate new ballads written...
...The result, 2022’s Song of Songs, has now had its UK premiere at London’s Barbican Theatre....
...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But this singer is not old at all. She is decisively Of This Moment....
...Meanwhile, the integration of music, dance and song is gorgeously effective....
...That’s very charming — it also feels uncomfortably passive.That’s one of the problems with this musical (written by Lauren Gunderson with songs by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart) of Audrey Niffenegger’s very...
...So alongside a delightfully mischievous “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from Gavin Lee, Damian Humbley and Jason Pennycooke, Joanna Riding’s impeccable delivery of patter song “Getting Married Today” and...
...For every knowingly saccharine plot-twist, Barne and Buchan have a salty antidote in the shape of a witty song....
...McCain came close to selecting Lieberman as his running mate before picking Alaska governor Sarah Palin....
...This is Sheader’s final production as artistic director here — and what a sensational swan song it is. ★★★★★ To September 23, openairtheatre.com...
...The duo, who were lovers, became notorious for the provocative 1969 song “Je t’aime… moi non plus”, though Birkin went on to release many of her own albums, appeared in film roles and had a long career of...
...I went to SUNY Purchase, and I heard Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter, and I was like, I love how unique everybody’s voice is, you know?...
.... ★★★★☆ To October 7, drsemmelweistheplay.com Song From Far Away Hampstead Theatre, London Music also threads through Simon Stephens’ Song From Far Away and, again, blurs the overlap between the past...
...The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Sarah (Jodie McNee), a breezily confident primary school teacher, seems also to have found love via a dating website....
...An Echo in the City by KX Song (Rock the Boat/Little, Brown) Against the backdrop of student protests in Hong Kong in 2019, love is a high-stakes game....
...Elsewhere, however, many songs glide by without leaving much of a mark, and the show feels like a missed opportunity to revisit the story in more depth and to interrogate more intricately the themes of separation...
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