Wilma’s Top Ten Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shows
REVIEW: RAINBOW CLASS (Assembly Hall) ★★★★★ Vivienne Acheampong (The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time) draws on her past experience of being a primary school teacher in this one woman comedy sketch show which is playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Rainbow Class is one of the best things I saw […]
REVIEW: HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL? (Lion and Unicorn) ★★★★
This comedy play How Does That Make You Feel?, is being presented as part of the Camden Fringe and is a short play lasting only an hour. The venue is the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London, which is a lovely pub with an upstairs theatre catering for a maximum audience of only […]
Solve the trail of clues with your friends in MORIARTY’S GAME
Due to overwhelming public demand Moriarty’s Game, which was due to end in September, announces a 6 month extension, booking until 1st March 2017. Tickets are now available, throwing open the chance for hundreds more teams to solve the mystery and explore the city’s secret side. Launched in December 2015, Moriarty’s Game, created by cryptic […]
REVIEW: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★
In a run down flower shop in one of the worst areas of town, Mr Mushnik has no choice but to shut up shop due to lack of business, putting Seymour and Audrey out of work. Thankfully Seymour has found an exotic plant which he has been nurturing and Audrey convinces Mushnik to try putting […]
Stage adaption of A ROOM WITH A VIEW starring Felicity Kendal to tour the UK before West End
The stage adaptation of A Room with a View will open at the Theatre Royal Bath on Thursday 6th October. Following a two week run in Bath the production embarks on a UK tour prior to the West End. The cast features Felicity Kendal (Charlotte Bartlett), Imogen Sage (Lucy Hornchurch), Tom Morley (George Emerson), Charlie […]
REVIEW: SCOOBY DOO! LIVE MUSICAL MYSTERIES (London Palladium) ★★
What do we expect from a Children’s theatre show? Something to keep the kids entertained during the summer holidays that will give them something to look forward to? Or something to use as a bartering tool for the majority of the holidays (i.e. if you don’t eat all of your dinner we won’t go to see Scooby […]
Shakespeare’s ‘CYMBELINE’ comes to the Barbican this Winter
Britain is in crisis. Alienated, insular and on the brink of disaster. Can it be saved? Shakespeare’s rarely performed romance of power, jealousy and a journey of love and reconciliation plays at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre until 15th October. The themes of Cymbeline are as relevant today as they were when Shakespeare first wrote them. […]
WEST END MISCAST: CONCERT to raise funds for Dance Teacher’s Brain Tumour Treatment
WEST END MISCAST, a concert featuring West End performers, is taking place at the Actors Church in Covent Garden on Sunday 18th September to raise funds for Diane Cuttell. Diane has been diagnosed with a Grade 4 Brain Tumour and has been given 12 months to live. Diane spent 30 years teaching dance in Ilford, […]
BEAUTIFUL The Carole King Musical extends booking period to July 2017
A further 200,000 tickets for BEAUTIFUL The Carole King Musical have been put on sale, taking booking at the Aldwych Theatre to 22 July 2017. The Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning show opened in the West End in February 2015 when Carole King surprised the audience by joining the cast at the curtain call to […]
Cast announced for RAGTIME at the Charing Cross Theatre
Earl Carpenter, who starred in the West End and on Broadway as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, and West End star Anita Louise Combe, Tessie Tura in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre and both Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago, are to head the cast […]