REVIEW: Cautionary Tales for Daughters (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★★
Presented by Tanya Holt and pianist Birgitta Kenyon (aka A Girl Called Fred) this song cycle is meant as advice and warning from mothers to their daughters. The show began as a personal project for Holt’s daughter Dotty, who is now 11 years old, and has evolved into a 90-minute cabaret with ideas and suggestions […]
KINKY BOOTS – Understudy Paul Ayres takes on the role of Charlie Price
2017 is the year that I plan to do my best to bring understudies to the forefront of theatre. If I can get to see a show when an understudy is performing, then I intend to write about it because it can be a thankless task, for a performer to take on a leading role […]
REVIEW: HENRY V (Southwark Cathedral) ★★★★★
This is an exciting but original production, sometimes brutal, sometimes funny but always enthralling. The awesome Southwark Cathedral surroundings alone are worth the trip and the accompanying music is a delight. Marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt Along with the hundredth anniversary of the First World War this production is one to […]
REVIEW: ONLY BONES (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
The late, great Gregory Hines apparently used to say that that you should be able to dance in a space about a metre square. It’s a captivating idea: that precision and technique are all-important and that wafting about in the luxury of space is somehow cheating. There are another couple of good reasons to confine […]
REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s Theatre) ★★★★
“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” The Glass Menagerie is the first major work of Tennessee Williams’s golden period in the 1940s and 50s that included A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot […]
Broadway star Eden Espinosa chats about the new rock musical LIZZIE
You are joining the cast of Lizzie at Greenwich theatre this year. What is the show about and what attracted you to the part you are playing? Lizzie is about the murders and trail that Lizzie Borden was involved in. She was really the first female who gained fame and notoriety from being on trail […]
The Yard Theatre brings out the big guns with a new play by Nina Segal
Following the critically acclaimed In the Night Time (Before The Sun Rises) at the Gate Theatre, Big Guns is an unsettling new play from Nina Segal, directed by Dan Hutton, Yard Artistic Associate and Barrel Organ founder. Starring Debra Baker (Radiant Vermin) and Jessye Romeo (Martyr, Unicorn Theatre), Big Guns is a show that holds […]
What hurts Madalena Alberto’s feelings? Find out in my Tea With Wilma interview
You have performed in some amazing shows so far in your career. What have been some of your highlights? I’ve been very lucky so far, and it’s hard to choose! Playing Fantine at the Chatelé in Paris, Eva Peron at the Dominion theatre, singing ‘Memory’ at the London Palladium… but it all has to do […]
Full cast announced to join David Tennant in DON JUAN IN SOHO
Joining the previously announced David Tennant who plays the title role, Adrian Scarborough as Stan and Gawn Grainger as Louis are Theo Barklem-Biggs (Pete), Mark Ebulué (Aloysius), Mark Extance (ensemble), David Jonsson (Col), Dominique Moore (Lottie), Emma Naomi (ensemble), Alice Orr-Ewing (Mattie and Ruby), Himesh Patel (Vagabond), Adrian Richards (ensemble), William Spray (ensemble), Danielle Vitalis […]
SWIFTIES – A play about Taylor Swift, Instagram and having no money
Swifties is a bold new adaptation of Jean Genet’s play The Maids, exploring the alienating and destructive effect that poverty, celebrity fetishism and social media can have on the lives of normal people. Swifties is written by Tom Stenton and directed by Luke Davies (The Chemsex Monologues, The HIV Monologues). Yasmin and Nina work in […]