Play about comedy legend FRANKIE HOWERD has world premiere at Greenwich Theatre
Celebrating the centenary of Frankie Howerd’s birth, Howerd’s End explores the untold story of this comedy legend. “Ladies and gentle-men, ye may titter. Titter ye may!…Oh, please yourselves” March 6, 2017 marks the centenary of the birth of a comedy legend: Frankie Howerd, who was and still is “one of Britain’s best-loved comedians”. A radical, whose […]
JUDY GARLAND returns to the West End this summer at the Arts Theatre
Judy Garland show set to play at the Arts Theatre this summer Following a critically acclaimed debut season at Southwark Playhouse under its original title, Through The Mill, Ray Rackham’s biographical musical about the life of iconic movie star and chanteuse, Judy Garland, arrives in London’s West End this Summer. Since her first tentative steps […]
REVIEW: THE BACON KILLER (Theatre Utopia) ★★★
Set in a New York Police Department precinct house in the 1980’s, two intrepid murder squad police officers, Dick Whittington and Kimberly, are on the hunt for a dangerous cop killer. The play is full of eighties US cop show bon ami and buddy buddy movie banter. It is a fast paced Starsky and Hutch for […]
REVIEW: CONSTELLATIONS (Bread and Roses Theatre) ★★
Constellations is a phenomenal play and having missed it in the West End, I have been desperate to see a staged production for a while. However, there is perhaps a reason as to why it is performed so infrequently, as it needs to be cast perfectly or it may perhaps be set up to fail. […]
REVIEW: THE SOUND OF MURDER (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
I love a play with a twisted murder plot, and that is just what William Fairchild’s The Sound of Murder delivers. Obviously, I can’t give anything away, however the key to this plot is a dictating machine used by highly successful children’s author Charles Norbury, who as a successful tiny tots’ favourite author in reality […]
Deaf inclusive FINDERS KEEPERS comes to PARK THEATRE as part of their accessibility programme
Park Theatre to run deaf friendly show Finders Keepers Two twits, one junkyard and an unexpected surprise! Hot Coals Theatre return to Park Theatre with Finders Keepers: a fun-filled, highly visual cartoon for the stage. Inspired by the story of Moses, Finders Keepers is an adult comedy suitable for children, and is fully inclusive for […]
Watch the 2017 OLIVIER AWARDS nominees announced live at 12pm today!
Denise Gough and Matt Henry will announce the nominees for this year’s Olivier Awards with Mastercard. The announcement will be broadcast live at 12:00pm today Denise Gough won the Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of People, Places And Things. She will appear in the National’s upcoming […]
MY FAIR LADY returns to London at the Bridewell Theatre
Eliza Doolittle set to dance all night at the Bridewell Theatre in My Fair Lady Geoids Musical Theatre‘s new production of the much-loved Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady comes to London for a limited run at the Bridewell Theatre from 4 to 8 April 2017. Famously made into an Oscar-winning film starring Audrey Hepburn […]
West End stars join forces on new WIT & WHIMSY album
Gina Beck, David Bedella, Tracie Bennett, Christopher Biggins, Anna-Jane Casey, Cassidy Janson, Miriam Margolyes, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Lauren Samuels, Oliver Savile and Emma Williams and many more lend their voices to this new comedy album A star-studded line-up of leading musical theatre artists and much-loved celebrities have joined forces to record a double album celebrating the […]
Lady Gaga to play Elphaba in the WICKED Movie … and other dream casting
Would Lady Gaga be the perfect person to play Elphaba in for upcoming movie adaption of Wicked? After being in the works for years, it has finally been announced that the movie adaptation of Wicked the Musical will be released in December 2018! In this V-log I take a look at who I think could […]