Arcola boss Mehmet Ergen’s staging is brisk and stripped-back but still features a cast of 17, the largest ever at this theatre. The score is uncomplicated but delightful, from the insistently inane ...

This is especially true of Cry-Baby himself. Depp, who leant into the kitschy vibe and managed to make the character edgy and sensitive, is an impossibly cool act to follow, but this musical seems ...

Based on the 1990 John Waters film that starred a young Johnny Depp (which I haven’t seen), Cry-Baby, The Musical is a 1950s-set frippery about romance across the class divide that never takes itself ...

If I tell you this musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1990 film is gloriously trashy you can take it as high praise indeed. This is a half-ironic, half-loving paean to the juvenile delinquent ...

But Cry-Baby and its older sister Hairspray (1988, also notably turned into a musical) marked a shift from the confrontational to the affectionate in his oeuvre. There’s still sly spikiness just ...

Described as “Romeo and Juliet” meets “High School Hellcats”, this subversive musical directed by Mehmet Ergen, Artistic Director of Arcola Theatre, promises a toe-tapping, boundary-breaking good time ...

THE Arcola celebrates its 25th anniversary with this thrilling production of Cry-Baby: The Musical, set in 1954 Baltimore.