Tag Archives: Terrence McNally

Master Class

Vaudeville Theatre,
Strand,
London WC2

Review of performance seen Feb 8, 2012:

Master Class at the Vaudeville Theatre, London

There’s something slightly lurid about Terrence McNally’s Master Class. Is it a homage or a disfiguration of Maria Callas? When it was first produced in London a decade and more ago, it struck me then as a rather odious love-hate letter to the late, great opera diva. Continue reading

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