Thanks for subscribing! November's best theatre 10 show all November's best theatre 1/10 Dear Evan Hansen November 20–April 4, … Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, the 10-part spin-off billed as its “spiritual descendant”, instead transports us to sunbaked, rangy Los Angeles, 1938. And does anyone stick to the script in this city? It was a jazzy joint, that bought together Colman’s love of ’40s movies and music to spin a tall tale about a writer called Stine and his private-eye creation, Stone, as both of them negotiate the mean streets of LA: Stine in the cutthroat movie business; Stone in some business with a missing girl that might end with his throat cut.Now, with respect to the late Mr Colman, he wasn’t an LA guy, he was a Broadway guy. If it’s hard to fall for ‘City of Angels’ itself – cold as a popsicle, distant as Neptune, not much to say but plenty pleased about how it’s said – it’s easy to fall for Rourke’s production, and fall hard. These bonds are organic and mellowing, a balm even as the malignant supernatural forces remain frustratingly opaque. But Penny Dreadful: City of Angels so far offers an entertaining promise to figure it out. Rosalie Craig, Hadley Fraser, and Rebecca Trehearn will return to star in the musical alongside American actress Vanessa Williams who makes her West End debut at the Garrick Theatre. As Anne Boleyn in The Tudors and Thrones’s Margaery Tyrell, Dormer is no stranger to beguiling subterfuge, and she’s queen of the subtle smirk; save a few overflowing monologues, she strikes the right balance of camp and restraint here for a Hydra of a character whose only motivation seems to be, at least in the six episodes available for review, chaos alone. Over here, Dr Peter Craft (Rory Kinnear, the one holdover from the original), a German Nazi working as a pediatrician, spouts “America First” white nationalism in a city park. It was a wet December night. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, the 10-part spin-off billed as its “spiritual descendant”, instead transports us to sunbaked, rangy Los Angeles, 1938. It weaves two stories together: one of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay and the other of the film he is writing. A private eye with a case to crack. All rights reserved. City councilman Charlton Townsend (Michael Gladis), seeking to bulldoze Chicano neighborhoods for a highway to Pasadena, is approached to collaborate with Nazi insurgents to facilitate fascism in the US. Which makes for some confusion (and intrigue – seriously, are they ever going solve this murder?) Friendly warning! Hadley Fraser is great as the self-loathing Stine; Tam Mutu is so good as noble screw-up Stone that you wanna give him his own detective show. Tiago and Lewis’s investigation leads to Tiago’s mother Maria (a standout Adriana Barraza), an ardent believer in Mexican folklore, and to the radio church of Sister Molly Finnister (Kerry Bishé), which switches Tiago into romantic lead mode, and her ruthlessly controlling mother Adelaide (Amy Madigan). The production won two Olivier Awards when it opened in 2014 at the Donmar. But nothing’s black and white when a dame is involved. A tribute to film noir, City of Angels follows dual paths; the life of Stine, a writer trying to get his novel turned into … Most of the performances, particularly from veterans like Lane, are solid, but the heavy lift here is done by Dormer, who plays not one but four avatars of Magda: Alex, a homely assistant to Townsend; Elsa, a mysterious if slightly cartoonish German emigre who lures Dr Kraft with her tale as a battered wife with a strange, asthmatic son; and Rio, a maroon-haired, flamboyant leader of a Mexican American gang. This will be Rourke’s first show since stepping down as artistic director of the theatre. Register with your social account or click here to log in. But ‘City of Angels’ is a bit too Broadway, if you catch my drift: all head, not much heart and more arch than the Sixth Street Viaduct. Rosalie Craig, Hadley Fraser and Rebecca Trehearn rejoin the cast; US performer Vanessa Williams will make her West End debut, as will Girls Aloud star Nicola Roberts. (City of Angels is considerably less macabre than its forebear, but has its fair share of gore.). [Producer Nica Burns'] passion for the show has brought about this reunion, and I'm very grateful that through her championing, audiences will have the chance to see this classic production in the West End.”. The ‘spiritual descendant’ of the macabre Victorian series offers heavily plotted yet beguiling horror in 1930s Los Angeles, Thu 23 Apr 2020 10.10 BST The idea for his show is nice, there are a lot of laughs and the lyrics – by a kid called David Zippel – are hilarious. The adult Tiago (Daniel Zovatto), the first Mexican American detective in a racist cesspool Los Angeles police department, partners with Lewis Michener (Nathan Lane), a sardonic Jew sympathetic to Tiago’s outsider status. Last modified on Thu 23 Apr 2020 10.11 BST, The original Penny Dreadful, named after the lurid shock novels popular in Ripper-era London and which aired from 2014 to 2016 on Showtime, drew blood from what was already well-trodden ground for horror: the ghoulish, dark streets of Victorian London. Read 38 audience show reviews Please note that remaining performances of City of Angels have been cancelled in response to government advice regarding coronavirus (COVID-19). The type of night that’s only good for two things: going to see a pastiche film noir musical, and going home to try and half-assedly write a pastiche film noir-style review of the musical while knocking back cheap Russian vodka.The show was called ‘City of Angels’: it had been a big hit for a guy called Cy Colman about 25 years ago. are individually compelling, but the show strains under the weight of its own webbing. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Try another? City of Angels will run from March 2020 at the Garrick Theatre. We all longed to hear Cy Coleman's classic score, and see this incredible design on a bigger stage. If you’re already dropping threads of this plot, well, join the club – the bold and disparate strands of this series (Nazis! City of Angels is a musical love letter to old Hollywood and film noir. But ‘City of Angels’ is a bit too Broadway, if you catch my drift: all head, not much heart and more arch than the Sixth Street Viaduct.But that ain’t put off Josie Rourke, boss of the Donmar Warehouse. Over the first three episodes, Penny Dreadful plunges into its immersive world and hovers, scouring the city’s moral underground (which, it understands, can be as much the institutional as the criminal), slowly overturning pebbles with calls to the present. The two are tasked with a grisly crime: a family murdered and left naked, hearts ripped out and faces painted Day of the Dead-style, in a dried-up riverbed. This is the ascendant LA of oil wells and parched mom-and-pop streets, working-class dance halls and a strong Chicano presence. This is in no small part due to the series’s smart handling of its smaller moments – the tentative bond between Lewis and Tiago, Maria’s formidable support for each of her sons. Kadif Kirwan (Ensemble), Marc Elliot (Munoz,Pancho) and Tam Mutu (Stone), Rebecca Trehearn (Donna, Oolie) and Rosalie Craig (Gabby, Bobbi), Samantha Barks (Avril Raines, Mallory) and Ensemble, Tam Mutu (Stone) and Hadley Fraser (Stone). Find tickets for City of Angels at Garrick Theatre, London using seat reviews, view photos & seating plan. But these are unusual times, so please check that events are still happening. A screenwriter with a movie to finish. The Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier Award-winning production of City of Angels hits the West End! The whole creative team will be reunited to bring Cy Coleman and David Zippel’s score and Larry Gelbart’s story to the stage. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Monday December 2 2019. But if the script is cold, it’s hard to imagine a cast and director attacking it more warmly – and in this town, sometimes that’s all you need. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. All rights reserved. Over there, Tiago’s sister Josefina (Jessica Garza) silently bears the brunt of neighborhood police terrorism. We already have this email. But, as it turns out, evil doesn’t lurk just within shadows, for City of Angels shares with the original a belief in humans as the most horrific monster of all. Peter Polycarpou is hilarious as monstrous Hollywood producer Buddy Fiddler and Katherine Kelly is super as smokin’ femme fatale Alaura. Of all the musicals in all of London, you have to walk into this film noir pastiche. But really, it’s an ensemble joint – Craig raises the roof with the couple of numbers she has, as do Rebecca Trehearn’s big-hearted losers Donna and Oolie. City of Angels will run from March 2020 at the Garrick Theatre. Jewish gangsters!) We're working hard to be accurate. A hard-boiled dame with a reputation that says you really don’t want to cross her, there’s no denying she knows how to put on a show. Andrzej Lukowski, Posted: Meanwhile, riots between Chicano residents and hostile law enforcement over police brutality and stifled opportunity offer Tiago’s brothers Raúl (Adam Rodriguez) and Mateo (Jonathan Nieves) subplots in resistance groups (the union for Raúl, a pachuco gang for Manuel) and echo the city’s so-called Zoot Suit riots in 1943. City Of Angels MUSICAL REVIEW 2020 Garrick Theatre London Hear 100's of exclusive interviews and reviews by Alex Belfield at www.celebrityradio.biz - the #1 review… But the show, created and written, like the original, by John Logan (Skyfall, The Aviator), cedes most of its action to the mortals in 1938 – LA’s so-called Golden Age, though there are no starlets to be found here. Mostly, that’s because this cast is something else: when you’ve got a broad of the calibre of Rosalie Craig – probably the best musical theatre actor of her generation – in the relatively minor roles of Stine’s wife Gabby and Stone’s ex Bobbi, you know you’re on to something special. Rourke said: “City of Angels was a landmark experience for me at the Donmar. © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Over halfway into its season, it’s unclear if, and how, the show can recollect the Pandora’s box of horrors it’s released. City of Angels returns to the West End, as the Donmar Warehouse’s award-winning production transfers to the Garrick Theatre in 2020. Or, as the leather-clad demoness Magda (Natalie Dormer) tells her sister, death-angel Santa Muerte (Lorena Izzo), in the first show’s first scene (their intro is as sudden and unsubtle as mine here): “All mankind needs to be the monster he truly is, is being told he can.”, Magda, demon puppeteer of the series, gets a literal fiery entrance, starting a blaze that almost kills a young Tiago Vega, who survives with help from Santa Muerte. By: Déjà vu! I found myself, despite whiplash from the laundry list of characters, immediately diving into the next episode; the show’s well-constructed, trenchant escapism can be aggressive, but it is magnetic.

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