REVIEW: THE ROYLE (The Tabernacle) ★★★★
As you enter The Tabernacle (current home of the Bush Theatres’s 2015 revival ‘The Royale’) there is no question as to the era. Beer bottles, dirt and flyers litter the ground of a hazy smoke filled boxing arena in the centre the room. Low hanging factory lights enhance the shadows whilst a blues record echoes […]
REVIEW: CATS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★
If there’s one show from my childhood I remember listening to again and again it’s CATS, so needless to say I was incredibly excited when I saw it had rolled back into town. I was with excitement to hear the songs I loved so much when I was younger and had high hopes that after […]
REVIEW: TRUMPAGEDDON (King’s Head Theatre) ★★★★
TRUMPAGEDDON was a sold out success at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival, back in August when the election seemed so far away. It’s back for a few more shows at The King’s Head Theatre in the run-up to election day, including election night itself. You’re invited to spend an hour with Donald Trump, to hear […]
REVIEW: DEAD FUNNY (Vaudeville Theatre) ★★★★
Terry Johnson’s award-winning 1994 comedy DEAD FUNNY is a fantastic comedic addition to the West End and a small yet painfully funny antidote to the huge trials and tribulations of 2016. Set in 1992, DEAD FUNNY tells the story of Ellie (Katherine Parkinson) and Richard (Rufus Jones), a dysfunctional married couple who haven’t had sex […]
REVIEW: TRAINSPOTTING (The Vaults) ★★★★★
Transgressive fiction is known as literature that deals with characters who feel confined by the expectations of authority figures and society and wish to break free of those confinements in taboo or forbidden ways. Dealing with self-identity, inner peace or personal freedom, often the protagonists of transgressive fiction are seen as mentally ill, anti-social or […]
Check out these pictures from the London production of SCHOOL OF ROCK
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End production of School of Rock – The Musical is currently previewing at the New London Theatre with opening night set for 14 November 2016. School of Rock – The Musical is initially booking to 12 February 2017. Based on the iconic hit movie and with a rocking new score by […]
REVIEW: F*CKING MEN (The Vaults) ★★★
With a title as face-slappingly brazen as this, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Joe DiPietro’s renowned play about gay men and their views on sex and relationships would overflow with aggressive carnality and emotional withdrawal. This is of course partially the case, yet F*cking Men is also infused with sobering honesty and a frankly […]
REVIEW: LAZARUS (Kings Cross Theatre) ★★★★
It’s been a few days since I went to see the UK premiere of the David Bowie musical LAZARUS at the newly built venue on the grounds of the Kings Cross Theatre. I’ve been mulling it over in my mind, trying to put the pieces together and figure out what exactly I watched. I’m still […]
HAIRSPRAY heads back out on tour in 2017
Following the phenomenal success of the recent UK tour, the smash hit production of Hairspray will embark on a further major tour opening on 16 August 2017 at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The big, bold and beautiful production of this much loved musical comedy will visit more than 30 venues across the length and breadth […]
Full cast announced for C.S.Lewis’s THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS at the Park Theatre
In the European premiere of the smash New York hit, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS creates a morally inverted universe that reveals unseen spiritual powers and principalities at work in humorous, vivid and surprising ways. Set in an eerily stylish office in hell, where God is called the “Enemy” and the devil is referred to as “Our […]