film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
It never ever occurred to me to imagine that Peter Davison — who’s starring in the role Victor Garber played in the movie, with all-new singing and dancing — would still be in the show all these many many months later. But he is, and I’m so there…
Did director Ian Rickson make the conscious decision to replace emotion with a studied old-fashionedness? If so, why?
Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men is making her West End debut this weekend when the classic drama The Children’s Hour opens on Saturday night. And I’ll be there to see it…
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
Someone make it stop…
Oh, I do love the pretty blond boys. All Creatures Great and Small was one of my first forays into British drama on PBS when I was probably 12. And I instantly fell in love with Tristan, and with Peter Davison: My crush was sealed for life with Doctor Who: (I love the fancy sideburns. … more…
Yes, I did a fangirl swoon when I learned just the other day that Gillian Anderson and Christopher Eccleston were about to hit the boards in London in a new production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Donmar Warehouse. And yes, it made me want to run up the credit cards again for a … more…
This was the sort of hopeless dread the news that Ron Howard was directing this left me with. I felt like Robert Stack in *Airplane!*: ‘It’s a goddamn waste of time — there’s no way he can land this plane!’
As reader BillM (and others) noted in comments, David Tennant has had to drop out of West End performances of Hamlet through at least Christmas. At first it was just a nonspecified “back injury” that forced him to miss one performance, then a second, then it was “out for weeks to recover from surgery for … more…
