REVIEW: MORIBUND (Live At Zedel) ★★★
This is the second show by quirky Gimcrack Productions, following on from their debut ‘Gimcrackery’, of which I have also seen. It was interesting to witness both productions, to get a feel for their style and to better understand what it is they are aiming to achieve. Eleanor Hush (Rosie Kohl) awakens to find herself […]
REVIEW: STILL (Ovalhouse Theatre) ★★★★
In 2009 Vivian Maier died, alone, in Chicago. Among her possessions was a tea chest full of her excellent but un-viewed Chicago urban streets photographs. The pictures had been taken painstakingly over the years with her trusty Rolliflex, twin lens reflex camera. Maier had only once tried to exhibit her work, in a New York […]
REVIEW: TOLKIEN MUSICAL (Arts Theatre) ★★★★
The journey to become a celebrated literary figure was a long and trying one for John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. In his youth, he loses his mother and is henceforth brought up by stern Father Francis. When the romance between Tolkien and Edith Bratt starts to blossom, Francis forbids him to see her again. John prioritises […]
A blog a day keeps the blogger blogging
So here’s the thing. I’m classed as a blogger. I’m not even sure if I agree with that but apparently that’s the box I fit into when being categorised by other people. But the funny thing is, I don’t tend to write blogs that much (insert laughing emoji). So I have decided to commit myself […]
REVIEW: HALF A SIXPENCE (Noel Coward Theatre) ★★★★
HALF A SIXPENCE has just opened in London’s West End after a smash hit run at Chichester Festival Theatre earlier this year. The 1963 musical is based on a book by writer H. G. Wells and is the simple rags to riches story of an orphan boy who inherits a fortune and tries to find […]
REVIEW: PRINCE BENDOVER IN BOOTS (Royal Vauxhall Tavern) ★★★★
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern panto is back, Oh yes it is! A very untraditional and naughty take on the traditional panto bought up to date for adult years. Last years smash hit show Charming Dick did so well, it has transferred to the (appropriately named) Cockpit Theatre for the 2016 festive season. PRINCE BENDOVER IN […]
Cast announced for the West End premiere of THE KITE RUNNER
Final casting is announced for the West End premiere of The Kite Runner, a thrilling stage production of Khaled Hosseini’s award-winning tale of friendship, betrayal and redemption. The international bestselling novel and film, is a powerful story of friendship spanning cultures and continents, following one man’s journey to find redemption. Adapted into a stunning stage […]
New cast announced for The Woman in Black from 29 November
Stuart Fox (Woman in Mind, Vaudeville; The Normal Heart, Royal Court and Albery; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fortune Theatre) and Joseph Chance (Jeeves & Wooster, UK and Far East Tour; Wallander) have been cast in the unanimously acclaimed stage production of The Woman in Black. Fox returns to play the Arthur Kipps having […]
Sheena Easton changes her life and heads to London for 42nd Street
Sheena Easton – the Grammy Award winning artist who has sold over 20 million records around the world – is to make her West End debut in the forthcoming production of 42nd Street. Easton, who remains the only artist in history to have top five records on five major Billboard charts, will perform the iconic […]
BLUES IN THE NIGHT comes to the Hippodrome Casino
Chicago 1939: In a shabby, down-at-heel hotel in the wrong part of town, three women share one thing in common – their relationship with a no-good, dirty, cheating rat of a man. In Blues in the Night, their tales of heartbreak, poverty, passion, lust and redemption are told through the raw, heady soul of blues, […]