REVIEW: DAN SIMPSON: ARTIFICIAL INELOQUENCE (Banshee Labyrinth) ★★★★
Are you worried that your smartphone is taking over your life? Concerned that a computer could take your job? Troubled by all the data you share online and what happens to it? Spend an hour with Dan Simpson, stand-up and poet, as he takes on the machines. Presenting a techy show in a very un-techy […]
REVIEW: DOORS TO MANUAL (Just The Tonic at the Mash House) ★★★
Doors To Manual is part sketch comedy show, introducing us to characters on an aeroplane and part aviation fun fact lesson. Rhiannon Vivian plays six characters on board an aeroplane, plus herself. It is the scenes with herself that we learn about her life, her struggles with a fear of flying and how that fear […]
REVIEW: THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA (Cadogan Hall) ★★★
I am probably sixty years older than the demographic at which this production is aimed, and so excuse me if I am a little out of touch with what makes children chortle, and at the same time I am a little over cynical about what producers are looking to gain. When you arrive at the […]
REVIEW: KATIE BRENNAN’S QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS ( Underbelly, George Square) ★★★★★
2016 has been a great year for Katie Brennan. She launched her Quarter-Life Crisis show as a two-hour cabaret at the AlleyCat Bar in London’s Soho. So popular was it that extra dates were added and it was subsequently picked up by the St James’ Theatre for a resoundingly successful three-show run. Katie, together with […]
REVIEW: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (Assembly George Square Theatre) ★★★★
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honnah Lee. His younger brother, Piff, however leads a slightly different lifestyle. A man sized dragon, on stage, performing magic tricks with his handy assistant Mr Piffles, the magic performing Chihuahua! I first saw Piff The Magic […]
REVIEW: SCOTT AGNEW I’VE SNAPPED MY BANJO STRING, LET’S JUST TALK (Gilded Balloon at the Counting House) ★★★
Following his 2012 hit Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Tales of the Sauna’, Glaswegian comedian Scott Agnew returns to the festival this year with his new show ‘I’ve Snapped My Banjo String, Let’s Just Talk’ at the Gilded Balloon Counting House. Scott Agnew bares his soul in this show, with stories of his addictions to drink, drugs […]
REVIEW: THE COLLECTOR (The Vaults) ★★★★
For most women, being the house-guest of a lottery winner who brings you breakfast in bed, buys you artwork and jewellery, and answers to your every need, would be a dream come true. In Miranda Grey’s case, it may just be her worst nightmare. Entomologist Frederick Clegg is unequivocally in love with Miranda, and she has no […]
REVIEW: Young Chekhov Trilogy (National Theatre) ★★★★★
The Young Chekhov is a trilogy of Anton Chekhov’s earliest plays, comprising Platonov (1880) which was written when he was only twenty years old, Ivanov (1887) and The Seagull (1896), performed at the Olivier Theatre on London’s Southbank. These plays are new versions, adapted by the brilliant David Hare, which were originally performed at the […]
Meet the dancing feet of 42ND STREET at Theatre Royal Drury Lane from March 2017
42nd STREET, the quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, is to play the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from Monday 20 March 2017, with a press night on Tuesday 4 April 2017 at 7:00pm. Tickets go on-sale today, Friday 5th August. This new production of 42nd STREET – the dazzling and romantic homage to the world of […]
REVIEW: FUNNY GIRL (Original London Cast Recording) ★★★★
I’m a lover of high stakes – and as the original cast recording of Funny Girl was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004 – I’m sure the revival cast, led by Sheridan Smith, worked tirelessly to create this original London cast recording of Funny Girl. The sell-out musical is based on the […]