Fanny & Stella – Above the Stag
Victorians Ernest Boulton and William Park were known and adored as Fanny and Stella. They dazzled in female roles on the nation’s stages – and in clubs and bedrooms from London to the Highlands. Behind closed doors they lovingly bitched at each other like an old married couple. This is the shocking story of their own […]
Jerry’s Girls – Jermyn Street Theatre
The Broadway Musical Review, Jerry’s Girls, featuring the songs of Jerry Herman, had a successful run earlier this year at the beautiful St James Studio in Victoria. Now it’s West End transfer has come to the Jermyn Street Theatre. I didn’t see the original production but I imagine the cabaret style setting of the St […]
High Society – Old Vic Theatre
After a stream of five-star reviews for Merrily we Roll Along in 2012, there was clearly no pressure for Maria Friedman to redeem that success…none whatsoever. However, she does so gloriously with her new production of High Society at the Old Vic, based on the 1956 film. Friedman’s musical is an open invitation for […]
Flames – Waterloo East Theatre
Meredith and Eric visit the grave of their deceased fiancé and best friend Edmond. Just before he died in a fire, it was publicly exposed that Edmond had committed a wide-reaching crime. On this fateful night a year later the story is reopened on the cemetery: Is everything really as it seems? Raging fires […]
Avenue Q – Greenwich Theatre
The Tony Award winning musical, Avenue Q, has seen many walks of life since it’s beginnings over a decade ago; from Broadway to Off-Broadway, the West End, and multiple international tours, it’s a show that always seems to keep coming back. Sell A Door Theatre Company joined the trend this year, re-launching their widely […]
Phantom Charity Cycle Raises Thousands for MacMillan
Company members from the West End production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom Of the Opera”, have raised almost £12,000 for MacMillan Cancer Care by cycling more than 385km – in between shows – from central London all the way to the steps of the Paris Opera House (where the Phantom’s story is set) in jut […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Whether it be the book or either of the two films, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a classic story that we all know and love. The musical adaption has been successfully running in the West End for almost two years now. I had wanted to make a trip to see this show, and […]
Communicating Doors – Menier Chocolate Factory
Alan Ayckbourn’s play Communicating Doors is a farcical sci-fi comedy about a Dominatrix from the future who goes back in time (through a revolving door in a hotel room), to warn women that they are to be murdered, after she witnesses a mans dying confession. It is an interesting idea to explore but left me […]
Kettners
Kettner’s has lived, surviving four kings and a queen, the blitz, several booms and more than a few busts, Kettner’s has seen it all and is an integral part of the vibrant, glamorous and debauched Soho we know and love today. Originally a series of four Georgian town houses, Kettner’s was originally opened as a […]
Beyond Bollywood – London Palladium
Bombay Dreams, Andrew Lloyd Webber and A.R. Rahman’s musical, was the first taste of Bollywood that the West End had to offer back in 2002. So it’s very fitting that Bollywood returns to London at one of Webber’s theatres — the Palladium. Beyond Bollywood feels like the sequel to Bombay Dreams, but without any […]