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Ragtime

Charing Cross Theatre, London (*****)

© Annabel Vere, Scott Rylander, Sarah Saayeng (Sarah) and Ako Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr)

© Annabel Vere, Scott Rylander, Sarah Saayeng (Sarah) and Ako Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr)

You begin to run out of superlatives when it comes to Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento’s touch with small scale musicals. Continue reading

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel

Charing Cross Theatre, London (***)

Tennessee Williams `forgotten’, flawed 1969 play sits appropriately in what was once the Players’ Theatre, an auditorium with a faded charm in keeping with the atmosphere of this strange, haunted experiment. Continue reading

Dusty

Charing Cross Theatre, London

**

Oh dear, how can we be sure this ain’t going to light up the town? Well maybe the venue gives a clue – the subterranean Charing Cross Theatre once the home of The Players Theatre and still finding it hard to shake off a certain unfortunate atmosphere despite expensive refurbishment.  And then there are the wigs. A more distressed crop of thatches it would be hard to find.

© Elliott Franks

© Elliott Franks

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