SHOUT!
Arts Theatre
Camden New Journal

Marijuana – check, permissive behaviour – check, monochrome fashion – check. Every element of the Swinging Sixties is present in Shout! a compilation musical about three northern girls who move to London at the start of the decade.
Unfortunately, Ruby (Marissa Dunlop), ­Betty (Shona White) and Georgina (Tiffany Graves) find themselves in not-so-swinging south ­London, where Ruby’s aunt Yvonne (Su Pollard) owns “the most luxurious hair salon in all of Peckham”. It’s hardly Carnaby Street...
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/043009/theatre043009_02.html

JOHN BARROWMAN INTERVIEW
Press Association

I recently interviewed John Barrowman about his current BBC show Tonight's The Night...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gqIQakovuFWGCoVUZtxTrGiQziNQ

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hro3RWz9oBTSM3d8GWQ470cw3HsA

G & I
New End Theatre
Camden New Journal

Oh what a lovely war! G & I doesn’t dwell much on the conflict of the Second World War, with more nostalgic name-dropping than bomb-dropping. Anton Burge’s gentle, musical comedy follows legendary leading lady Gertrude Lawrence over four days as she returns to London...

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/041609/theatre041609_03.html

HOWIE THE ROOKIE

Old Red Lion Theatre
Camden New Journal

(Image courtesy of Christian Smith)

Tiptoeing round the bodies on the floor, through the foreboding Irish mist, you know you’re in for a tragic tale from the moment you enter the Old Red Lion Theatre.Howie The Rookie takes the form of two monologues, delivered by a pair of Dublin lads, Howie Lee (Johnny Vivash) and Rookie Lee (Kieran Gough)...
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/040209/theatre040209_03.html

DARK TALES
Lion and Unicorn Theatre
Camden New Journal

Have you heard the fairy tale about the severed head in the flowerpot? No, that one never featured in my bedtime stories either. Giant Olive’s Dark Tales eschews Hans Christian Andersen’s most well-known stories in favour of his more macabre fables of vanity, greed and love...
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/review/2009/040209/theatre040209_02.html