W hat a joyous thing it is to watch a homegrown British musical wend its careful way from nurturing fringe theatres to the ...

“It’s all just a matter of time,” sing the chorus, as they spin around the stage in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The line rings true on many levels in this wildly improbable yet ...

To age in reverse, like Benjamin Button in F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 yarn, illuminates little in and of itself – because it’s ...

Odd as it may sound, there are some parallels to be found in the 2008 film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Movie buffs will remember that the title character, played by Brad Pitt ...

And finally, the wait is over. The foot-stomping and award-winning musical, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has arrived ...

Set in a Cornish fishing village, it tells the story of Benjamin Button – a man who ages in reverse. F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story has been adapted for the stage by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark.

Because there is no make up.” If you’ve already seen the exquisitely homespun musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is previewing in the West End after seven years of development ...

A labour of love that has worked its way slowly to the West End over the five years since it debuted at Southwark Playhouse, at its best Jethro Compton’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is ...

By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London Benjamin Button is born onto the West End stage with a hunch, a walking stick and venerable observations more suitable to a wizened man than a newborn.

In The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttton, Fitzgerald’s Baltimore becomes the rugged North Cornwall coast. Benjamin is born in 1918, aged 69, complete with pipe and bowler hat. Hidden away by his ...