Quentin Letts

“The country setting of rice and cornfields is given a lovely airy feel.”

“Don't let that or a couple of iffy Southern accents deter you.”

“The whole thing is just too nakedly schmaltzy and commercial, and that’s before one considers the interval champagne bar and the post-match merchandise.”

“Cabaret looks terrific, sounds pretty good and retains its powerful ‘live and let live’ message.”

“The show has only grown in its artistic power, the music swooping down from the gods to give you a glorious emotional rinsing.”

“Delicious archaic details include baked apples, ration books, a coked-up boiler and stockings from Gibraltar.”

“He has shrewdly opened it not with one of Sondheim’s plinkety-plonk tooth-grinders, but with a revival of Boublil and Schönberg’s box-office cert Les Misérables.”

“Apart from the lyrics, Hamilton is no revolution.”

“The West End’s ornate Palace Theatre, itself a little like Hogwarts, has a hit probably for years.”

“Matilda is a fabulous family fizzer.”