Check out these pictures from last nights WEST END BARES
Last night things got a bit hot under the collar at the Novello Theatre. Not because of the Mamma Mia mega-mix but because for one night only the theatre played host to the 2016 West End Bears show, raising money for MAD Trust. Graham Norton, Samantha Bond, Michelle Visage and David Bedella alongside a host […]
30th Anniversary celebration of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA to take place on 10 October
On Monday 10 October, the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic musical “THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA”, at the Her Majesty’s Theatre, celebrates its 30th Anniversary with a very special charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. Tickets are on sale now via Her Majesty’s Theatre Box Office. […]
REVIEW: THE HIRED MAN (Cadogan Hall) ★★★★★
On Friday evening, for one night only, once again, the story of The Hired Man came to life. The show was perfectly cast with a lineup of incredibly talented actors. John Owen Jones sings the role of John Tallentire gorgeously, and I think it is the best I have ever heard him. He performs the […]
REVIEW: DREAMPLAY (The Vaults) ★★★
Immersive theatre is rapidly becoming more and more popular in the theatrical world, and The Vaults is a space that is helping to accommodate more and more of this style of theatre, in this instance Baz Productions’ Dreamplay. Now, the show isn’t a coherent story, but I think this was the desired effect, as it […]
REVIEW: CALM DOWN DEAR: A FESTIVAL OF FEMINISM (Camden People’s Theatre)
Calm Down Dear comprises two separate but very different events on the theme of personal, sometimes painful issues. They are Blush and The Absolute Truth About Absolutely Everything. Blush, was a two hander concerning one of the most relevant subjects of the present day, revenge porn. It’s effect on it’s victims, it’s tragedy and it’s […]
REVIEW: GLASGOW GIRLS (Theatre Royal Stratford East) ★★★★
In 2010 director Cora Bissett saw a documentary called ‘Tales From the Edge’ and it was this that first introduced her to the ‘Glasgow Girls’; an incredibly tenacious and loyal bunch of schoolgirls who, alongside members of their close knit community, initially fought to stop one of their friends being deported back to Kosovo and […]
St James Theatre announce DRAG WEEK this November
The St. James Studio is delighted to announce that its first ever drag week will take place from 1 – 5 November. Three shows from some of the country’s most acclaimed drag performers will take to the studio stage: super-group Denim, androgynous signer Jessica Walker and West End star Ian Stroughair as alter ego Velma […]
Amanda Holden, Angela Griffin, Tamzin Outhwaite and more star in STEPPING OUT
Amanda Holden, Angela Griffin, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite and Nicola Stephenson will be Stepping Out in the West End when Richard Harris’s award-winning comedy opens at London’s Vaudeville Theatre with preview performances from 1 March 2017 and opening night for press on 14 March 2017. Directed by Maria Friedman, this brand new staging of the […]
Jeremy Irvine joins Ed Harris and Amy Madigan in BURIED CHILD at Trafalgar Studios
Jeremy Irvine (Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, The Railway Man, Now is Good and forthcoming films Fallen, Billionaire Boys Club, and This Beautiful Fantastic) will make his West End debut in Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer & Obie prize winning play, Buried Child. Irvine will be taking on the role of Vince, and starring alongside multi award-winning, international […]
Imelda Staunton returns to the West End to ask WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Imelda Staunton and Conleth Hill will star in a new production of multi Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by James Macdonald. Following the sad news of Albee’s passing last week and in anticipation of this revival, Michael Billington recently wrote in The Guardian “With America currently engaged […]