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 […]
REVIEW: The People vs Donald Trump (The London Theatre) ★
If there is any silver lining at all to the grimness of recent global affairs, it’s arguably the gift bestowed on political satirists. Sadly, that gift is squandered by ‘The People vs Donald Trump’, which is more screwball than satire and frustratingly low on wit. Written and directed by former US trial lawyer Max Lopert, […]
Craig Revel Horwood joins the West End cast of Annie this week
Craig Revel Horwood joins the West End cast of Annie this week, for 10 weeks to play the role of Miss Hannigan. Craig Revel Horwood said: “I am so looking forward to my first performance at the Piccadilly Theatre tonight when I join the Annie company to play the wicked Miss Hannigan ahead my return […]
Full Cast Announced for NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL
Full Cast Announced for NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL Full casting for the World Premiere of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s production of NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL is opening at Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Friday 20 October 2017. Joining the previously announced Daniel Boys, Sarah Earnshaw and Simon Lipkin, is Andy Brady as ‘Mr Shakespeare’. They will be joined by […]
REVIEW: HOLDING THE MAN (Above The Stag) ★★★★
Based on the memoir of Timothy Conigrave, ‘Holding the Man‘ first takes place in 1970’s Australia, where the lives of teenage sweethearts Tim and John intertwine over the next 20 years together. Despite concern from both sets of parents that their sexuality would make their lives ‘difficult’, the pair are relentless in their mutual pursuits […]
Cast announced for 25th Anniversary production of THE TAILOR-MADE MAN
The Tailor-Made Man, the powerful true story about the Hollywood studio system and its hypocrisy and the star who gave up everything for the man he loved, is to get a 25th anniversary production in London. William “Billy” Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B Mayer because […]