Susan Hemmings | Search

Accessibility help Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer

Showing results for Susan Hemmings

Sort by

Viewing results 1‒25 of 43

ReviewTheatre
Joyous 42nd Street rides a wave of dazzling hoofing
...(Wyndham’s), and Susan Stroman’s gorgeous revival of Crazy for You has also just rolled into town....
June 29, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Five stars for Crazy for You — a daft, dizzying musical that revels in the joy of theatre
...Crazy for You Gillian Lynne Theatre, London On the opening night of Crazy for You in London, director and choreographer Susan Stroman stepped on to the stage to thank not just her cast — led by the sensational...
July 12, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewTheatre
Dancing at Lughnasa — a beautiful new staging of Brian Friel’s play at the National Theatre
...Drawn from Sue Monk Kidd’s 2001 novel, with a script by Lynn Nottage, music by Duncan Sheik and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, it’s a timely, knotty story following two women on the run....
April 27, 2023
The FT’s best films, TV shows, podcasts and more of 2022
Best theatre shows of 2022
...Powered by Charlie Stemp’s dazzling lead performance and Susan Stroman’s mischievous direction and choreography, this irresistible show sent you out walking on air....
December 28, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Culture wars go ballistic in Eureka Day at the Old Vic — review
...fun satirising the bien pensant liberal left: headteacher Don (Mark McKinney) is a cuddly, ageing hippie, who, in one toe-curling moment, “welcomes the unique perspective” of new, black parent, Carina (Susan...
September 29, 2022
ReviewTheatre
Crazy for You — deliriously daft musical is revived in Chichester
...Blessed with ingenious, sparkling choreography from Susan Stroman, who choreographed the original 1992 Broadway production, and a dazzling central performance from Charlie Stemp, it’s a show that sends you...
July 28, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewTheatre
Restoration comedy romps into the 21st century in Scandaltown
...Meanwhile Lady Susan Climber (Rachael Stirling) plots to rescue her fading fortunes through the offices of media influencer and scandalmonger extraordinaire Hannah Tweetwell (Aysha Kala)....
April 21, 2022
InterviewTheatre
Sister act — Moira and Fiona Buffini at the National Theatre
...“There’s a certain Susan Buffini fearlessness that’s been a great life lesson for all three of us.” Susan Buffini also introduced her daughters to theatre....
November 11, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Drama clings on amid the crisis
...It’s also tender and funny, as Susan finds love in an unexpected place....
September 11, 2020
Theatre
Best new London theatre: Teenage Dick contends with disability, plus Swive and A Kind of People
...There’s lovely work, too, from Susan Wokoma as a well-meaning teacher, and from Siena Kelly as the girl who sees a future with Richard but instead becomes a tragic casualty of his armoured scepticism....
December 19, 2019
ReviewTheatre
Best new UK theatre: The Boy in the Dress, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and My Brilliant Friend
...From the outset, we are keenly reminded that this is a wartime tale: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuees; their father is away fighting; their mother is in London, facing the Blitz....
November 29, 2019
ReviewTheatre
The best new theatre: Faith, Hope and Charity; The King of Hell’s Palace; Amsterdam
...For Bernard (Alan Williams), a chronically lonely old man, it is company; for Beth and her 16-year-old son (brilliantly played by Susan Lynch and Bobby Stallwood), it is a haven; for Mason, a well-meaning...
September 20, 2019
Life & Arts
The enduring puzzle of Shakespeare’s ‘Dark Lady’
...Aged seven, following her father’s death, Emilia was sent to live with the highly literate Susan Bertie, Countess of Kent, who gave her the sort of education generally bestowed on boys....
August 3, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
An Ideal Husband, Vaudeville Theatre, London — insouciance and gravity
...Irony is the name of the game: one of the most dim-witted figures in the play, Lady Markby (an enjoyable Susan Hampshire), unwittingly sums up the plot when she says “everybody turns out to be somebody else...
May 9, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Salomé, National Theatre (Olivier), London — lacking warmth and drama
...Farber (who both writes and directs) works with Susan Hilferty’s simple yet spectacular designs to create a sombre sense of ritual....
May 10, 2017
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewLife & Arts
F*ck the Polar Bears, Bush Theatre, London — review
...But while Serena (Susan Stanley) fantasises about boiling-water taps and body balance classes in the attic, Gordon seems troubled. For a start, he is struggling to get the bridging loan he needs....
September 21, 2015
UK economy
Couple guilty of plotting London attack on 7/7 anniversary
...All they required was to purchase the chemicals to make a detonator,” said Susan Hemming, head of counter-terrorism at the CPS....
December 29, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Beyond Caring, National Theatre, London — review
...Susan (Kristin Hutchinson), 48, says little, but tiny details — such as the fact that when offered a biscuit she surreptitiously hides a handful — suggest that she is homeless....
May 5, 2015
Life & Arts
More theatre reviews and previews
...The story of nine innocent men sent to death row in 1930s Alabama, who at every stage suffered the most outrageous racism, is told by John Kander, Fred Ebb and director Susan Stroman in the most racist theatrical...
February 13, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
The Scottsboro Boys, Garrick Theatre, London – review
...In Susan Stroman’s dazzlingly delivered staging (the show’s UK premiere, first seen at the Young Vic last year) the impact is both elating and shocking. It’s a shameful tale....
October 20, 2014
Life & Arts
More theatre reviews and previews
...Sarah Hemming sunnyafternoonthemusical.com 0844 871 7622, booking to May 23 Shakespeare in Love, Noël Coward Theatre, London Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s droll faux-depiction of history made a popular...
December 26, 2014
Life & Arts
More theatre reviews and previews
...Boys, Garrick Theatre, London This story of nine innocent men sent to death row in 1930s Alabama, who at every stage suffered the most outrageous racism, is deliberately told by Kander, Ebb and director Susan...
November 28, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
More theatre reviews and previews
...Brendan O’Hea plays Tallis, Simon Harrison plays Henry VIII, Susan Trayling Elizabeth I and Guy Amos Edward VI in Adele Thomas’s production in this intimate candlelit venue....
July 18, 2014
Life & Arts
More threatre reviews and previews
...Sarah Hemming youngvic.org, 020 7922 2922, to November 29 ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London The family relationships were pretty peculiar in The Duchess of Malfi, the Jacobean tragedy...
October 24, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Three Birds, Bush Theatre, London
...And the three children are movingly created, with Michaela Coel as the bossy, protective Tiana, Jahvel Hall as the traumatised, near-mute Tionne and Susan Wokoma, outstanding as the funny, needy Tanika....
March 25, 2013

Previous pagePage 1 of 2Next page