REVIEW: Sam Bailey (Lyric Theatre)
Sam Bailey is one of the most down to earth people you could meet. Despite winning the 2013 series of X Factor, having a Christmas number one and supporting Beyoncé on her UK tour, she doesn’t seem phased by any of it. After being dropped by her record label earlier this year, Sam has decided […]
REVIEW: Roaring Trade (Park Theatre)
In Roaring Trade, Steve Thompson shines a light on the murky world of bond trading in the shiny towers of Canary Wharf where everyone claims to be living the dream. Written in 2009 just as this world came tumbling down, Thompson’s play scratches the surface to show us flawed characters making decisions they […]
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY CELEBRATES IT’S 1000TH PERFORMANCE TONIGHT
The award-winning West End production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Sam Mendes, will tonight mark its 1000th performance in the West End, since opening in June 2013. To celebrate this milestone, producers have today announced that the booking period for the show has been extended for a further six months, until […]
Miracle On 34th Street – UK tour announced
Based on one of the most popular and best-loved Christmas films of all time, classic musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET will return for a third UK Tour, opening at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls on Thursday 29 October 2015. Based on the 1947 motion picture, Miracle on 34th Street is the heart-warming story of Susan, a young […]
INTERVIEW: Frances Ruffelle has Tea With Wilma
For those who may not be familiar with your work, can you give me a little run down of some of your career highlights so far? I feel uncomfortable showing off my career highlights, but my website does all the showing off so.… Ha… here it is Francesruffelle.com Your new album ‘I Say Yeh-Yeh’ is […]
REVIEW: A Little Night Music (Ye Olde Rose and Crown)
Pack up the luggage la la la… one of Sondheims less commercially popular shows but a well loved classic for thespians, A Little Night Music opened in Walthomstow this week, following on from its successful run of Into The Woods last year. Set in Sweden in 1900 we meet Desiree Armfeldt, the once big time […]
REVIEW: Midnight (St James Studio)
Aloff Theatre’s brand new musical Midnight had its worldwide premiere workshop presentation this week at the St James Theatre. The theatre company dedicate themselves to the promotion of new and classic works from East Europe and Central Asia. Midnight is set in Azerbaijan on New Years Eve, 1937. The secret police, the NKVD are breaking […]
REVIEW: The Great Gatsby (Greenwich Theatre)
Nick Carraway moves into an affluent neighbourhood, closer to his well-to-do cousin Daisy and her husband Tom, right next to the stately home of a certain Jay Gatsby. It’s the roaring twenties, and America’s high society spends most of those years drinking, chitchatting, drinking a little more, and dancing. Where they do it? At Gatsby’s […]
REVIEW: Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre)
A new updated version of Thriller has launched in London’s West End with new songs, videos, costumes and special fx. Having never seen the show before, I decided it was about time I checked it out. From what I have heard, the show originally opened with a large Jackson 5 segment and musically chronicled his […]
REVIEW: Pam Ann: Queen of the Sky (Leicester Square Theatre)
Australian comedian Pam Ann has flown into the Leicester Square theatre for a five week run after a successful stint last year. Known for her foul mouth, Pam portrays the character of an air hostess and talks about her observations in life and her love of black men. Audience members come dressed as […]