BAT OUT OF HELL – THE MUSICAL extends West End run
Before the world premiere of the long-awaited Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical has even opened in London’s West End, the producers have extended its season at the London Coliseum, due to overwhelming public demand. The musical will open on Tuesday 20 June 2017, for a limited season, has now extended from […]
REVIEW: COMMON (National Theatre) ★★★
England, 1809. The country, in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, is in a state of flux and uncertainty. DC Moore’s newest work Common delves into this turmoil, mixing together economic and political struggles with the notions of sin and the supernatural and their impact on the physical world. In the cavernous Olivier Theatre, we […]
REVIEW: COLDER WATER (Theatre N16) ★★★★★
Colder Water and TWIX are two stories written by the brilliant Laurie Ogden. Colder Water tells the story of a group of four young people, (Ellie, Louise, Allie and Allie’s brother James), who enter a restaurant and order two bottles of wine. Wine consumption proves a point of contention within the group because Louise, is pregnant. […]
REVIEW: CHUMMY (White Bear Theatre) ★★★★
BAFTA-winning writer John Foster debuts his neo-noir thriller Chummy at the newly refurbished White Bear Theatre, staged by Encompass productions. Burn-out Jackie Straker resigns herself to the “more settled” life of a small scale private investigator, after eight years of police work and a personal tragedy. Little does she know that she is about to […]
REVIEW: WORKING (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
Working is a genre-defining musical based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling 1974 book, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. Put simply, Working is a musical about the everyday American’s daily working life. Look a bit closer and it’s so much more! With a book by Grammy […]
ANDREW LOUDON to star as scheming Labour MP in JAMES BONNEY MP
YES, MINISTER! Andrew Loudon stars as a scheming Labour MP in the premiere of the political comedy James Bonney MP James Bonney, the swashbuckling moderate, the (ladies) man of the people doesn’t take kindly to enemies within – not his new leader who believes in something called socialism nor his local rival who thinks he’s sold […]
REVIEW: PUNTS (Theatre 503) ★★★★
Punts, written by Sarah Page, finds itself in the intimate location that is Theatre 503 above the Latchmere Pub. The Latchmere serves great food, and the theatre itself benefits from tiered seating and a clear view of the stage, so we were already off to a good start. We meet Jack, a 25-year-old young man […]