Jonathan O'Boyle's production is a wonderfully poignant and intimate experience, with detailed performances from both Oli Higginson and Molly Lynch. (c) Helen Maybanks Having had a successful and popular run at the Southwark Playhouse last year, Jonathan O'Boyle's haunting and poignant production makes its glorious debut in the West End - highlighting the uniqueness of… Continue reading REVIEW: The Last Five Years, Garrick Theatre
The pair chatted to us about bringing Jason Robert Brown's musical to the West End's Garrick Theatre. The Last Five Years at Southwark Playhouse (c)Pamela Raith How does it feel to be bringing The Last Five Years to the West End? Molly: It feels surreal! Especially after the rollercoaster that has been the last 18… Continue reading Interview With… Molly Lynch and Oli Higginson
It has been announced that the Made at Curve production of Sunset Boulevard will be available to view online once more from the 10th to the 15th May, with money raised going to the The Andy Nairn Bursaries in Technical Theatre. (c)Marc Brenner The Curve's streamed production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical was directed by… Continue reading NEWS: Curve to Re-release Sunset Boulevard at Home
It has been confirmed that following a run at the Southwark Playhouse and digital stream run, Jonathan O'Boyle's production will play at the Vaudeville Theatre from the 17th September. Jason Robert Brown's musical will be heading to the West End for a strictly limited season from the 17th September to the 13th October it has… Continue reading NEWS: The Last Five Years to Transfer to the West End
Director Nikolai Foster's vivid and refreshing take on this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical enhances the feeling of drama and the power of the music. Based on Billy Wilder's film and making full use of the beautiful Curve Theatre in Leicester, this concert production of Sunset Boulevard has been exquisitely filmed to make it feel as… Continue reading REVIEW: Sunset Boulevard in Concert, Curve Leicester (Online)
We round up the reviews for Jonathan O'Boyle's production now playing at the Southwark Playhouse. The Independent: **** "O’Boyle extracts a seam of melancholy from the piece which undercuts even the most ebullient numbers – there’s a pearly beauty to the golden days of their early courtship. After all, relationships are filled with ghostliness, even… Continue reading Review Round Up: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse
Jonathan O'Boyle's production will now run at the Southwark Playhouse until the 14th November. With two thirds of the tickets for the original run already sold out, it has been announced that The Last Five Years will be extending its run at the Southwark Playhouse into November. This production of Jason Robert Brown's musical will… Continue reading NEWS: The Last Five Years Extends Run at Southwark Playhouse
Jonathan O'Boyle's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical will return to the Southwark Playhouse from the 1st October. It has been announced that Molly Lynch and Oli Higginson will return to their roles of Cathy and Jamie when The Last Five Years returns to the Southwark Playhouse. It was confirmed that the pair will be in the same… Continue reading NEWS: Casting Announced for The Last Five Years at the Southwark Playhouse
Empowering in many aspects, somehow elements of the story feel as though they get lost in this ambitious musical. It is admittedly fairly impossible to get a chance to catch every show that is happening in London and back in 2018 this was one show that sadly I missed out on seeing live. But thanks… Continue reading REVIEW: Wasted, Southwark Playhouse (Online)
We round up the reviews for Jonathan O'Boyle's production of Jason Robert Brown's musical at the Southwark Playhouse. (c)Pamela Raith. WhatsOnStage: ***** "This staging adds so much more to the musical than ordinarily, and O'Boyle's choices enable him to mine Brown's lyrics and come up with gold." The Stage: ***** "O’Boyle is forensic in the… Continue reading Review Round Up: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhuse
