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 ...

“Do you mind if I smoke?” Age aside, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” a folk-rock musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story opening Wednesday at the Ambassadors ...

This is exactly what happened with the now Broadway-bound Operation Mincemeat and, gloriously, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has taken the next significant step in this mighty journey.

This time round John Dagleish winningly plays Benjamin, whose birth in 1918 as a 70-year-old man complete with three-piece suit, bowler hat, pipe and walking stick prompts his mother to kill herself.

Sondheim stated that musicals aren’t written but rewritten, and watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s evolution from a tiny but profound gem in Southwark Playhouse’s smallest space to a fully ...

the bar girl with whom Benjamin falls in love – and who must contend with seeing him grow younger as she gets older. I am afraid I found the evening pretty hard going, said Dominic Maxwell in ...