REVIEW: WAITING FOR GOD (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
With audiences demanding evermore lavish and spectacular productions, it was a welcome return to the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford for the stage version of Waiting for God. All of our favourite characters from the original BBC series return to Bayview, facing the dilemmas that come with growing old disgracefully. Nichola McAuliffe, playing Diana Trent is […]
REVIEW: WHEN HARRY MET BARRY (Above The Stag Theatre) ★★★
When Harry met Barry has been around for a few years now: it first premiered in 2002, back in the day when the Above The Stag theatre really was above The Stag pub in Victoria. The show, now in it’s fourth incarnation, is currently playing at the Stag’s most recent home under the arches in […]
REVIEW: OUT THERE ON FRIED MEAT RIDGE ROAD (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★★★
I am a gal who loves to laugh: tittering, belly-laughing, a delayed chuckle, witty banter and snort your-beer-out-of-your-nose hilarious. Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd. at the Trafalgar Studios allowed me to indulge in all of my favourite kinds of laughter. The show is the brain child of Playwright Keith Stevenson, a proud native […]
REVIEW: OUR MAN IN HAVANA (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
Cuba has become the tourist destination of 2017. Since Fidel Castro‘s death, people are flocking to visit the country before it ‘gets Trumped’, to see the famous classic cars, smoke Habanos and drink Mojitos. However, despite today’s sudden nostalgia for 1950’s Havana, Graham Greene‘s novel looks at the real Cuba that was, whilst also giving […]
REVIEW: THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★★★
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, written by Bertolt Brecht in the 1950s and set in the 1930s, is a satyrical allegory based on Hitler’s rise to power as well as the career of the gangster Al Capone. ‘Ui’ a small time hood, has his sights set on taking over the Chicago cauliflower business, whatever […]
REVIEW: PETE ‘N’ KEELEY (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★★★
Pete ‘n’ Keely: A Musical By James Hindman and Mark Waldrop was first published early in 2002 and the first performance occurred, off Broadway, in December 2002. The show was an immediate hit with both the public and the critics. “The brightest, happiest and most entertaining show in town” according to Rex Reed of the […]
REVIEW: BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE (Hope Theatre) ★★★★
Dennis Potter’s Brimstone and Treacle is a shocking, visceral problem play that stares deep into the shadows and squalor of life to explore dark themes of good and evil. Originally a TV play it was filmed in 1976 but shelved for 11 years because of its controversial violence and seemingly anti-religious messages. The stage adaptation […]
PARK Theatre hold Relaxed & Dementia Friendly performance of tick, tick… BOOM!
The Park Theatre have held three Relaxed Performances so far, for The Buskers Opera, The Albatross 3rd & Main and Finders Keepers as well as one Dementia Friendly Performance: Killing Time, as part of their mission to help make theatre accessible to as many people as possible. Park Theatre have now announced their next Relaxed Performances […]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD set to open on Broadway in 2018
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two set to open on Broadway Spring 2018 at the Lyric Theatre Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, have today confirmed that the production will have its Broadway premiere in the Spring of 2018 at the newly renovated Lyric Theatre in New York. As previously announced, the […]
Cast announced for NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL UK Tour
NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL is set to open at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October 2017. Daniel Boys will play ‘Paul Maddens’, Sarah Earnshaw ‘Jennifer Lore’ and Simon Lipkin ‘Mr Poppy’. They will be joined by Andy Barke, Jamie Chapman, Jemma Churchill, Gary Davis and Katia Sartini. Further casting and childrens casting to be announced […]