MICHAEL GRAY'S ARTS BLOG

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS One from the Heart at the Civic Theatre Chelmsford 02.12.2017 A portentous start, with Richard St...

THINGS TO COME  – CHELMSFORD BALLET COMPANY’S SNOW QUEEN Chelmsford City of Culture ? One of the strongest recommendatio...

OUR HOUSE Chelmsford Young Generation at the Civic Theatre 08.11.17 A typically exuberant performance by Young Gen of this ico...

PRIVATE LIVES London Classic Theatre  at the Civic Thea tre, Chelmsford 26.10.2017 for The Reviews Hub Coward’s frothy co...

ALL SHOOK UP CAODS at the Civic Theatre 26.09.17 for Sardines A juke box musical par excellence , featuring an actual juke box...

THINGS TO COME – CHELMSFORD CITY THEATRES The autumn season at Chelmsford City Theatres launches this week, with a visit from the acc...

WHAT WE DO BEST Essex Dance Theatre at the Civic Theatre 23.07.17 What EDT do best is to bring accessible, affordable dance tr...

FAME  The Musical Tomorrow's Talent at the Civic Theatre 18.07.17 This is the 1988 musical of the 1980 movie. Those ea...

STARS ARE BORN The Chelmsford Junior Music Festival 2017 at the Civic Theatre 22.06.2017 When I was their age … we would gather...

STRICTLY MURDER Talking Scarlet at the Civic Theatre Chelmsford 23.05.17 Jean Sablon on the soundtrack speaks the period and the se...

BALLET CENTRAL at the Civic Theatre 16.05.17 an updated version here , for The Reviews Hub , at Colchester Mercury For this,...

STARSHIP PINAFORE Trinity Methodist Music and Drama at the Civic Theatre 10.05.17 The curtain-raiser – always the fate of this ...