TAPE FACE comes to the Garrick Theatre in Summer 2017
Following a stunning 2016 – during which he made his debut in Las Vegas, reached the Final of America’s Got Talent, completed a sold-out 52 date tour of some of the UK’s most iconic venues and successfully persuaded Mel B to wear a toilet seat on her head live on American TV in front of […]
Cast announced for the UK&I tour of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
The National Theatre have announced the cast for its forthcoming 25 city tour of the Olivier and Tony Award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which begins at the Lowry in Salford on 21 January 2017 and continues its journey to Aylesbury, Edinburgh, Leeds, Canterbury, Bath, Southampton, Nottingham, Belfast, Dublin, […]
REVIEW: THE BEGGAR’S OPERA (Brockley Jack Studio) ★★★★
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA is a musical comedy and political satire originally written by John Gay in 1728. This funny, lively adaptation has an excellent, fresh, new score and contemporary staging. According to Ricky Dukes, the Artistic Director, the new material was written in eight weeks and rehearsals took just three weeks. That is truly remarkable, […]
Wilma’s #Stagey Christmas Gift Ideas
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, I know all I’ll get, is another load of crap. Here are some #Stagey gift ideas if you are looking for presents for theatre fans. Some of these items I have and recommend and others are on my christmas list! Miss […]
INTERVIEW: Edd Campbell Bird has Tea With Wilma chatting bout MUTED
You have performed in some amazing shows so far in your career. What have been some of your highlights? Okay, I’m going to apologise in advance for a shameful name drop! It was my first rehearsal for Sweeney Todd at the ENO which was not only my first ever professional rehearsal, but I hadn’t actually […]
REVIEW: DENY, DENY, DENY (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Following on from the success of DEAD SHEEP and AN AUDIENCE WITH JIMMY SAVILE, Jonathan Maitland returns to the Park Theatre with his new play DENY, DENY, DENY about the illegal drug use within competitive sporting competitions. Eve is a promising young athlete with much potential. Her coach suggests she try a new cutting edge […]
REVIEW: AN INSPECTOR CALLS (Playhouse Theatre) ★★
AN INSPECTOR CALLS is the well known classic by J. B. Priestly which is a popular text studied at schools for GCSE’s. Stephen Daldry directed the show at the National Theatre in 1992 and then on the more recent 2011 UK tour. The show is now revived in the West End for a limited season […]
REVIEW: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (St James Theatre) ★★★
THE LAST FIVE YEARS is probably composer Jason Robert Brown’s greatest achievement of his career so far. The musical is based on his own marriage breakdown and is so close to the real life story that his ex wife threatened legal action when it was released. The off-broadway musical opened in 2002 and there have […]
REVIEW: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY celebrates four years in the West End
This week Charlie and the Chocolate Factory celebrated its fourth and final year in London’s West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane ahead of its closure after Christmas, to make room of 42nd Street which is set to open in March 2017. Based on the 1964 children’s book by the legendary Roald Dahl, the […]
BU21 transfers to the Trafalgar Studios
Every night on the news there’s literally always some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shit going down… And I always wonder ‘how would I cope, if that happened to me?’ Transferring after a sell-out, award-nominated run at Theatre503, Stuart Slade’s BU21 follows six Londoners in the aftermath of a fictitious terrorist attack. In turn terrifying, […]