REVIEW: CHILDREN OF EDEN (The Union Theatre) ★★
Children Of Eden is the re-telling of the story of the book of Genesis. The show premiered in the West End twenty five years ago, where is ran for just three months and received little praise. The show is now being staged at the new Union Theatre in the heart of Southwark. The Union Theatre […]
REVIEW: BRASS (Hackney Empire) ★★★★
Sixty years ago my parents used to reminisce nostalgically about the demise of the Hackney Empire music hall and so entering that big, lovely, traditional theatre was exiting for me. I was not disappointed. It is lovely, ornate and has been beautifully restored. The ‘acney ’empire, to quote my parents, is now a long way […]
Life According to Saki wins the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award
This weekend, at the Scotsman Award Ceremony in the Spiegeltent in St Andrews Square, award-winning children’s author Katherine Rundell’s debut play Life According to Saki won the coveted Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award. This is the first production by new company Atticist Productions, who now as part of the award take the play to […]
REVIEW: BEST BOY (Underbelly Cowgate) ★★★★
My first experience at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival ended with me up on stage playing a War Trumpet. To be short, Best Boy is a delight. Charlie Mizon and Dan Smith have fantastic chemistry that doesn’t tire throughout the show. Skipping from sketches to rather impressive magic, the pace of the show is mostly […]
REVIEW: THE ROUNDABOUT (PARK Theatre) ★★★★
J.B.Priestley plays are elegant, literate and funny, if a little dated. The Roundabout (never the most popular of his works) was written in the 1933 when the world was a different place. The play explores the relationships between the varied characters over a single weekend. Priestley threw in a number of diverse characters and looked […]
Check out these pictures from UNFAITHFUL which opens next week
Following the critically acclaimed, sold out productions of The Dazzle and Bug at Found111, Emily Dobbs Productions is thrilled to pesent the London premiere of Unfaithful, a blackly comic new play starring Sean Campion (The Borgias, Stones in his Pockets), Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time), Ruta Gedmintas (The […]
REVIEW: PAPER HEARTS (Med Quad: Underbelly) ★★★★★
The best piece of advice I was ever given when I started writing was always to find the reason the story needed to be told. Why is this story important for people to see, why do the characters need to be heard. Paper Hearts is this through and through. It is a story that so […]
New LIVE AT ZEDEL season of Musical Theatre Cabarets launches next month
Launching in September 2016, Live At Zédel, produced in partnership with United Agents, will bring together all art forms in one extraordinary building, featuring music, theatre, comedy and literary events. This highly anticipated launch will deliver a multi-disciplinary programme in an inclusive entertainment space for discerning and curious culture-hungry Londoners of all ages. Utilising both […]
Check out these rehearsal images of the cast of VANITIES
This Autumn, Lauren Samuels (Bend it Like Beckham, BBC’s Over the Rainbow, Grease), Ashleigh Gray (Wicked, Cool Rider) and Lizzy Connolly (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Xanadu) star in the European debut of Vanities, a classic American story. This brand new production features never before seen material with all new direction and choreography from Racky Plews (Footloose, American […]
THE MGM STORY The Magic of the Musical opens Upstairs at the Gatehouse next week!
The world première of a brand new musical revue THE MGM STORY The Magic of the Musical opens Upstairs at the Gatehouse next week! Of all the Hollywood studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the true home of the film musical. Here, under the supervision of producer Arthur Freed, classics of the genre were made, such as The […]