 All you need is Love, playing at the Milton Keynes Theatre, Tues 29th July- Saturday 2nd August, continues the exciting line up of top quality performances to grace the Stage. In my opinion, the title of the program says it all, “A fab celebration of the swinging sixties”...
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 Robert Louis Stevenson’s swashbuckling book Treasure Island came to life at the Milton Keynes Theatre on Tuesday night, in the Birmingham Stage Companies production of the classic novel.
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 Monday night saw the opening of Eurobeat at Milton Keynes theatre. Not being a great lover of Eurovision I have to admit that I was not looking forward to the evening. How wrong I was.
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Tuesday night saw the opening of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers at The Chrysalis Theatre, Camphill, Milton Keynes. An audience were entertained for a couple of hours by a classic story that was first made in 1955 starring Alec Guiness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and many more.
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 Monday night saw the opening of the immensely entertaining Rat Pack at the Milton Keynes Theatre. For two and one quarter hours the audience were whisked back in time when music had meaning and songs had lyrics that could be understood.
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 Courtney Buchanan leads you through the history of Motown its singer’s bands and songs in the most entertaining way. He is a great guide and gets the audience straight into singing within his fist minute on stage.
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 The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan performs this evening in a one off show as part of the Dance consortium, which is a group of theatres in the UK that is committed to the development of audiences for international dance.
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 This is not just one but two one Act plays written by the skilful pen of Alan Bennett. Centring on the spies of the cold war, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, the plays are humorous, observational, witty, and immensely gripping.
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 What energy, such excitement and glorious colour. That just about sums up the first night of Havana Rakatan at the Milton Keynes Theatre last night. It was a full house with a very appreciative audience.
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As someone whose previous experience of opera has been limited to Gilbert & Sullivan the prospect of Falstaff aroused vague interest. After all Shakespeare was known to pen a good story and this tale was based on the Merry Wives of Windsor so it should be OK!
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 This was the first of three operas to be performed in Milton Keynes by the Welsh National Opera, with music by the Welsh National Orchestra this week. The theatre was almost but not quite full but there was a buzz amongst the theatre goers present.
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On a wet windy and stormy night I braved the conditions to attend the opening of the classic musical Half A Sixpence, at the Milton Keynes theatre. As I left the theatre part of me was still asking why?
This is such an upbeat show; a love story that grips the heart; a tale with a meaning about money not buying happiness; about being honest with oneself. The show has wonderful recognisable tunes such as the title song Half A Sixpence, and Flash Bang Wallop, a fast paced story line. So why did it fail to meet expectations?
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Finally on its way to the West End, brand new musical Never Forget came to Milton Keynes Theatre this week. Never Forget tells the story of five lads and their dream to become the ultimate Take That tribute band.
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The delights of Rodgers and Hammerstein came to Milton Keynes Theatre this week, with the infamous South Pacific jam-packed with beautiful songs such as ‘This Nearly was Mine’, ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ and ‘ There is Nothing like a Dame’.
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The eagerly awaited Matthew Bourne production of Nutcracker arrived back at MK Theatre last night. Staying true to form, Bourne’s choreography – a delightful mixture of classic and contemporary dance – and storytelling skills, whisked adults and children alike off into a fantastical whirlwind of colour and fantasy. Add Tchaikovsky's wonderful score and I knew we were all in for a treat!
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This was a production that I had no real preconceptions of, apart from the fact that I’d seen a few Agatha Christie Movies in my time, so I thought why not? Should be good to see something different for a change. Based on the best-selling thriller, with over 100 million copies sold, Agatha Christie's own stage adaptation of this dark and captivating tale promised murder, mystery and intrigue and it definitely delivered. From the first step into the foyer, there was a buzz of anticipation, added to by the mysterious theme of the production.
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The origins of English pantomime are a blend of the traditions of the Italian "Commedia dell’ Arte, and British Music hall. "Commedia dell’ Arte was a type of travelling street entertainment which came from Italy in the 16th century. It migrated into theatres from the street in the 17th century as it became more and more popular and today every city and provincial theatre is expected to hold a pantomime in the season over the Christmas.
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I really enjoyed this play. I was not particularly looking forward to seeing it. I had no prior knowledge of the plot or players, so I went along with no preconceptions of what to expect.
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How does one manage to transform a famous Opera by Bizet into a Ballet, and be able to convey the passion, humour, violence and sensitivity usually provided by the spoken or sung word? Well the answer is to go and see this remarkable re-vamp of Matthew Bourne’s ballet.
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This was clearly a girls’ theatre night as I only spotted 11 men (including my husband) as I looked around the full auditorium. There was lots of excited chatter as we waited for the curtain to rise. This was a play written by a Milton Keynes woman, Louise Roche. She has written another play in a similar vein “Girls Night,” that had been very well received, so how would this play compare?
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Deadlock brought the curtain down on the Spring Season at Milton Keynes theatre. With Simon Ward as Robert Marlowe this on paper looked like being a wonderful play.
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Milton Keynes theatre has had a recent run of some very good shows, and it was hoped that Dancing Queen would carry on the trait. Unfortunately it failed to hit the mark.
The cast are very enthusiastic, full of energy and obviously enjoy what they are doing. What lets them down is the distinct lack of discipline and professionalism.
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Monday night saw the start of the last week of the tour of this play written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. It should have been Rik Mayall in the starring role as Alan B'Stard, but unfortunately he is still suffering from a virus and was unable to appear. His place was taken by his understudy Mike Sherman.
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