REVIEW: STRAWBERRY STARBURST (Blue Elephant Theatre)
A poisonous concoction of body image, self-perception and warped modern ideals of beauty bubbles threateningly in the latest work from Bram Davidovich, Strawberry Starburst. Taking a swipe at the continually propagated idea that being thin is the same as being healthy, this play shows the truly damaging, and often irreversible result of how we compare […]
REVIEW: LAST OF THE BOYS (Southwark Playhouse)
About a year ago, director John Haidar wrote to various regional theatres in the U.S. asking for recommended works that they had staged but which had not yet made their way across the pond. The Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, one of the regional powerhouses of new American writing, included Last of the Boys by […]
New Cast Announced for Third West End Run of 1984
An entirely new cast has started rehearsals for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s adaptation of 1984. The cast for the hit West End production of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece will be: Rosie Ede, Andrew Gower, Joshua Higgott, Richard Katz, Anthony O’Donnell, Daniel Rabin, Catrin Stewart and Angus Wright alongside Eve Benioff Salama, Cleopatra Dickens, Amber […]
REVIEW: The Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the year
This was the 10th Anniversary of the annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition, (SSSSPOTY for short) and the 9th year for the annual Stiles + Drewe (SAD) Prize for best new song, as well as the first year for their new MTI Membership Award supported by Music Theatre International. It’s a […]
Nigel Lindsay joins the West End production of GUYS AND DOLLS
Guys and Dolls today announces Nigel Lindsay will be joining the West End cast for a limited time at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Nathan Detroit from Thursday 26 May until Sunday 26 June 2016. Nigel will be taking over from Richard Kind who will play his final performance of Nathan Detroit […]