Madam ‘Ebbie’ Scrooge has topped The Times Rich List for 7 years in a row, but her heart is far from being as full as her pockets. Joe Murphy’s charming staging of Gary Owen’s adaptation returns to Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre, brimming with Dickensian dramatics. This high-spirited production playfully reverses Scrooge’s gender while offering up a visual party bag of exuberant festive bustle. Unafraid to stray from the original, Murphy’s production delivers a buoyant jaunt back to 1843 Cardiff, in which…
Gothic musical Jekyll and Hyde the Musical swept the Sherman Theatre for two nights earlier this June, bringing the award-winning cult classic musical phenomenon to Cardiff. Loosely based on the original novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the theatrical adaptation is written by double Oscar and Grammy-winning Leslie Bricusse, featuring a tracklist of lively pop rock hits from multi-Grammy and Tony-nominated Frank Wildhorn. Director Kevin McCurdy presents the amateur production by arrangement with Music Theatre International. The production pulls off…