West End LIVE with MasterCard Returns to Trafalgar Square 18 and 19 June 2016
West End LIVE with MasterCard once again returns to the iconic setting of Trafalgar Square on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 June 2016. Celebrating its 12th year, the free musical extravaganza showcases the best of the West End. Attracting crowds of more than 500,000 people over the course of the weekend, West End LIVE with […]
REVIEW: SAUCY JACK AND THE SPACE VIXENS (Kings Head Theatre)
Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is a cult musical, often compared to the Rocky Horror Show due to its sci-fi story and off-the-wall antics. Originally written for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the show has enjoyed more than twenty years of success around the world. I donned my glitter boots and hoofed it down to […]
REVIEW: INTO THE HOODS: REMIXED (The Peacock Theatre)
First things first — don’t be fooled by the title. Into the Hoods: Remixed may remind you of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, but ZooNation have ‘remixed’ the story for a modern, younger audience. Perhaps modernised it too much. Telling the story of two lost children, representing the Baker and his wife, they find themselves in […]
REVIEW: THE LOCAL STIGMATIC (Old Red Lion Theatre)
First staged at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in 1966, before transferring to The Royal Court in the same year, The Local Stigmatic by poet / playwright / painter / sculptor Heathcote Williams shocked audiences with its raw and unprovoked violence and is considered a ‘Cult Classic’ today. Al Pacino was impressed enough to turn the […]
REVIEW: NUDE (The Hope Theatre)
A hollow cube of fluorescent light hangs suspended in the murky, cavernous space of the Hope Theatre. Inside, a man and woman sit apart, frozen in thought. A figure, clad in white, circles the space and breathes life into the static pair, guiding them first through a romance and then the relationship that ensues. Nude, […]
Broadway legend Bernadette Peters talks to West End Wilma about her upcoming UK Tour
Bernadette Peters, the multiple Tony & Grammy Award winner and one of Broadway’s brightest stars will embark on a three city UK tour in June. Most recently on Broadway, she starred in A Bed and A Chair: A New York Love Affair featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and orchestrations by Wynton Marsalis. Prior to […]
REVIEW: ELEGY (Donmar Warehouse)
Memory loss is becoming a popular topic of discussion in theatre recently, with productions such as Florian Zeller’s The Father and Barney Norris’s Visitors packing a punch in these last couple of years. Nick Payne’s production of Elegy continues this with an elegant and muted portayal of memory loss. This may be a love story, […]
REVIEW: THE BUSKERS OPERA (Park Theatre)
Douglas Irvine’s brand new musical, The Buskers Opera, has been in the making for the last five years but with the backing of Finsbury Park’s Park Theatre and the upcoming London election, it was perfect timing to finish the show in time to have its World Premiere on the evening of the 2016 Election. And […]
Denise Gough has Tea With Wilma talking PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS
Denise Gough is the talk of the West End right now with her incredible portrayal of a woman struggling with addiction and battling her demons in rehab. The National Theatre production of People, Places and Things is currently enjoying a West End transfer at the Wyndham’s Theatre. West End Wilma sat down for a natter […]
Andrew Lancel to star as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music UK Tour
Bill Kenwright’s production of one of the greatest family musicals of all time, The Sound of Music, recommences its UK tour on Wednesday 18 May at the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre. BBC1’s The Voice runner-up and award-nominated Lucy O’Byrne continues in the role of Maria in this spectacular five-star production. Star of stage and screen Andrew […]