All-star revival of Kiss Me, Kate is a great night out – review
We’re not usually ones for drawing comparisons here but with Kiss Me, Kate it’s difficult not to. The Barbican Theatre had a smash hit on its hands in the summer of 2021 – so successful, in fact, that they repeated the exact same production in the summer of 2022 – with a revival of Cole Porter’s classic musical Anything Goes.
Producers Trafalgar Entertainment appear to think they’re on to a winning formula, and for this summer’s season at The Barbian they’re revived another of Porter’s hit musicals in Kiss Me, Kate.
Anything Goes featured an all-star cast, teaming Tony-winning Broadway royalty Sutton Foster with British stage and TV star Robert Lindsay; Kiss Me, Kate also features some big names, pairing Tony-winning Broadway royalty Stephanie J Block with British TV star Adrian Dunbar, best known for Line of Duty.
Throw in some of the other key elements from their previous hit (a spot of tap dancing here, a lavish orchestra there) and it seems as though we have all the ingredients of a sizzling summer spectacular.
