REVIEW: BUZZ: A NEW MUSICAL (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★★★
Sometimes a musical comes along that is undeniably fantastic. The fringe is, a lot of the time, a soundboard for work that is in progress. Buzz however, was a polished piece of West End worthy theatre. Following the story of Angie (Allie Munro) post breaking up with her dead-end boyfriend turned rock star and her […]
REVIEW: TENDERLY (New Wimbledon Studio) ★★★★★
Sometimes there are jukebox musicals that are forced to fit. They shoehorn songs into a plot, or fashion a plot around some pre-written songs. It tends to make for a very makeshift and incomplete feeling show. Tenderly, is not one of these. Set in a doctor’s office, the show is Rosemary Clooney’s recount of her […]
REVIEW: THE TEST (White Bear Theatre) ★★★
The Test is a new play written and directed by Ian Dixon Potter and produced by Golden Age Theatre at White Bear Theatre in Kennington. Dora is a talented computer scientist; she has written a code that she believes will create truly conscious artificial intelligence. She wants to try it out; her boss is understandably […]
REVIEW: LEGALLY BLONDE (Churchill Theatre) ★★
UK audiences have been lucky to have had several brilliant productions of the musical adaptation of Legally Blonde with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. Since it premiered on Broadway in 2007 we’ve had a wildly successful West End production along with a live cast recording, a UK tour and a Leicester […]
REVIEW: KINKY BOOTS (Adelphi Theatre) ★★★★★
The story of a young man who is reluctantly forced into his father’s shoes as the head of his family’s Shoe Factory, doesn’t exactly sound like a subject for a musical. Yet Kinky Boots has just celebrated it’s second birthday in the West End and there is no question as to why. The show is excellent, […]
Broadway legend Patti Lupone to star in West End revival of COMPANY
As Elliott & Harper Productions is about to begin performances of its first West End show, Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle, Marianne Elliott announced today (Friday 22 September 2017) that she will be directing a new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony award-winning musical, Company. For the first time ever, the lead […]