Welcome to The Crazy Chris Website

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Hello and welcome. This is the third version of my personal site - the first two just developed technical problems which I couldn't resolve so I had to start over. Basically it's mostly about theatre as that's where I often find myself outside of work. I'm still not technologically minded so this one might well fail too at some point.

One of these days I might get around to putting up old content from the previous websites. Thanks for stopping by!

Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial - Wyndham's Theatre

Invariably, friends and acquaintances want to know if I’m looking forward to seeing any shows in the near future. There’s one that...

Dec 21, 20223 min read

Jack Whitehall and Friends (in aid of Diabetes UK) - Savoy Theatre

Jack Whitehall is not the sort of person to be bashful about his personal life, and at this charity gig in aid of Diabetes UK, he...

Dec 20, 20224 min read

Standing at the Sky's Edge - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

This was a historic visit to Sheffield for me, as it marks the first time I have ever stayed in a Travelodge hotel. Check-in was quite...

Dec 19, 20226 min read

Hex - National Theatre

A fairy (Lisa Lambe) called Fairy (yep, it’s one of those shows) puts a hex on Rose (Rosie Graham), or for the uninitiated like me, a...

Dec 17, 20223 min read

Bat Out of Hell - Swansea Arena

There were social media influencers invited to Bat Out of Hell the Musical back in January 2022 when I saw the show at New Wimbledon...

Dec 11, 20224 min read

Saving Grace, Triangle of Sadness and Danielle Steers In Concert

With some justification, social media has developed a reputation of being a bit of a cesspool – I’ve reached out before and had some...

Dec 10, 20224 min read

42 Balloons, Come From Away 1000, and Matilda the Musical the Movie

It was unusual, to say the least, to be seeing two theatre shows on a Monday – outside the Edinburgh Fringe, that is – but the...

Dec 2, 20223 min read

Cinderella - Hope Mill Theatre

Well, it happened to various fellow fans of Bat Out of Hell the Musical when it came (back) to Manchester, and then eventually it...

Nov 14, 20225 min read

Dorian: Son of Love and Death - The Other Palace Studio

Brought into the present day, this adaptation of the 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray works remarkably well for the most part, in...

Nov 3, 20223 min read

Jordan Gray at the London Palladium

As the audience was periodically reminded, Jordan Gray is having the time of her life, having brought her Edinburgh Fringe show, Is It A...

Oct 29, 20224 min read

A return visit to the city of Liverpool after 13 years

I hadn’t been to Liverpool for some years – I went a couple of times as a novelty a year or two after I graduated from university, simply...

Oct 16, 20225 min read

Les Mis at 37 and Mamma Mia muckup matinee

It’s fascinating, at least to me, to discover, or rather re-discover, what it is like to step away from the reviewing circuit and...

Oct 9, 20223 min read

Magic at the Musicals 2022

On the day Dear Evan Hansen played its final Broadway performance, Sam Tutty, who still (for a few more weeks until the show plays its...

Sep 19, 20224 min read

Last (not quite mid) night thoughts: Into The Woods, Theatre Royal Bath

According to the New York Times (yes, I had to go to an American publication to find out a bit more), the co-director of this production...

Sep 12, 20225 min read

Some thoughts on Edinburgh Fringe 2022

I overdid it at the Edinburgh festivals this August, so much so that I was quietly grateful when the Edinburgh International Festival...

Aug 28, 20225 min read

Edinburgh Fringe 2022 stinkers

During this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I filed 63 reviews, published on londontheatre1.com for anyone who wants to have a look....

Aug 28, 20224 min read

Millennials - The Other Palace

The thing about going to a show long after press night is that I get to see how an audience that isn’t packed to the rafters with friends...

Aug 7, 20224 min read

A-Typical Rainbow - Turbine Theatre

There are, I suspect, people whose experiences of neurodiversity in the home are markedly different from that of Boy (Conor Joseph at the...

Jul 28, 20223 min read

Prima Facie - NT Live

It’s as powerful and intense as many others who have seen Prima Facie says it is. I don’t disagree with the praises being showered on...

Jul 23, 20223 min read

The Light in the Piazza/Merrily We Roll Along - Royal Academy of Music

I read with interest a social media comment about London not being quite the same as it was pre-pandemic. Of course it isn’t, for many...

Jul 9, 20224 min read

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