REVIEW: THE DRESSER (Duke of York’s Theatre) ★★★★
Ronald Harwood’s 1980 play THE DRESSER is based on his real life past, working as a dresser on tour with Sir Donald Wolfit during the war. The play was well received in both the West End and on Broadway and is now back in London starring Reece Shearsmith and Ken Stott. Now playing at the […]
DIRTY DANCING returns to the West End this Christmas
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage, is currently wowing audiences around the country on its UK tour. The show has announced it will play a season in the West End this Christmas, mambo-ing into the Phoenix Theatre for thirty performances only from 6 – 31 December 2016. Starring Lewis Griffiths as ‘Johnny Castle’, […]
Check out these pictures of 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 […]
REVIEW: STRAIGHT TO THE HEART (Above The Arts) ★★★★
New York Times editor Ken Jaworowski recently showcased his work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and now brings three of his short plays to London’s West End for a series of lunch time performances. PULSE tells the story of three separate characters, Charles, Ron and Diane. Charles (played by Alistair Brown) has grown up in […]
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA celebrates 30 years in London’s West End
On Monday 10 October 2016, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA celebrated thirty years playing in London’s West End. Stars and special guests attended the charity gala performance in aid of The Music in Secondary Schools Trust. Tickets were appropriately priced at just £19.86 for some seats, giving a tip to the hat to the year the […]
REVIEW: UNKNOWN PLEASURES: CNN – Ballet De Lorraine (Sadlers Wells) ★★★
For anyone who has been waiting for a fairer and more realistic representation of female choreographers, I have good news and bad news: First: this Dance Umbrella performance comprises five pieces created by one man and four (four!) women. However they are all anonymous. Maybe that’s some sort of progress. The intention is admirable; we’re […]
REVIEW: THE AUTUMN GARDEN (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★★
Considered to be Lillian Hellman’s best play by contemporary critics and the author herself, THE AUTUMN GARDEN has never been seen in London. The Jermyn Street Theatre now presents the London premiere of this neglected work by the Pulitzer-prize winning author. Set in 1949, the play takes place in Constance Tuckerman’s summer house, about 100 […]
REVIEW: GIMCRACKERY (Live at Zedel) ★★
‘Gimcrackery’ definition: ‘cheap, showy, useless trifles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.’ The performance is advertised as ‘A vaudevillian display of daring curiosity’. Words such as ‘MYSTERY!’ and ‘EXTRAVAGANZA!’ lured me into thinking I was about to see something rather unforgettable. It was, however, rather anti-climactic. We were introduced to the alternative personality of Driscoll Bleak, ‘part Victorian […]
REVIEW: ACORN (Courtyard Theatre) ★★★★
The women in Greek mythology are often presented in extremes. Either shrieking, swathed in fury and hungry for the flesh of men or swooning, excessively beautiful and unforgivably gullible, the two archetypes struggle to mesh with our continually evolving understanding of the modern woman. Taking two of the most well-known legends, the stories of Persephone […]
Controversial play DENY DENY DENY about doping in sport comes to the PARK Theatre
It’s the first rule in the doper’s handbook. If you’re accused of cheating, deny it. Then deny it again. And carry on denying it, until you can’t. Deny Deny Deny, journalist turned playwright Jonathan Maitland’s new play tackling the controversial and highly current subject of doping in sport, will premiere at Park Theatre on 2 […]