SCHOOL OF ROCK star Stephen Leask chats about taking over the role full time
Stephen Leask has just opened in School of Rock taking on the role of Dewey Finn, the anarchic supply teacher created by Jack Black in the film of the same name. Leask has previously performed as the Alternate Dewey in the show but now takes on the role full time. For those who may not […]
Check out these rehearsal images of the UK&I tour of JERSEY BOYS
Check out these rehearsal images for for the UK & Ireland tour of JERSEY, which opens at the New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham on 16 December 2017, running until 6 January 2018, then touring until March 2019. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”130″ gal_title=”Jersey Boys UK Tour Rehearsal”] JERSEY BOYS, the remarkable true story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and their […]
REVIEW: THE BARRICADE BOYS (The Other Palace) ★★★★★
Musical Theatre boyband The Barricade Boys have taken over the studio at The Other Palace for a three week residency this Christmas. The boys (who have all starred in Les Miserables at one time or another) have been travelling around the world this year but are back in London spreading festive cheer and inviting some […]
HAMILTON might be the hot new musical but what’s it actually about?
I was lucky enough to catch a preview performance of Hamilton this weekend and despite all the hype that has been built around it, I really went in not knowing anything about the story. What is it actually about? It’s pretty complex American history stuff, so thought I would break it down for those of […]
REVIEW: BARNUM (Menier Chocolate Factory) ★★★
If you type Barnum into a search engine, you don’t have to scroll down very far before you come across an article asking if the eponymous character is the “Hardest part in theatre?”. Many of the UK’s most esteemed entertainers have tackled the role including Michael Crawford, Paul Nicholas and Brian Conley, who is quoted […]
REVIEW: The Box of Delights (Wilton’s Music Hall) ★★★
In the decked out and inherently beautiful Wilton’s Music Hall, Hero Productions present The Box of Delights. Adapted from the 1935 fantasy novel by John Masefield, the story follows a young boy, Kay Harker through a wild Christmas adventure. After meeting a magician on the way home for Christmas break, he is lent the ‘Box […]
REVIEW: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★★
Plenty of fog, some criminal puns and rollicking physical comedy in this spirited adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes mystery about the ancestral curse of a hellish hound on Dartmoor. It opens blood-curdlingly with the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville before retreading the well-worn tale with irreverent good humour, delivering a Holmesian romp […]
REVIEW: PRIVATES ON PARADE (Union Theatre) ★★★★
Privates on Parade follows the camp exploits of the fictitious Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA): a British military entertainment corps based in the Malay Peninsula. Lead by the fabulous Captain Terri Dennis, a leading man of Kenneth Williams-style campery and Wildean wit, the small ensemble of twirlies are charged with entertaining the troops […]
REVIEW: INSIDE PUSSY RIOT (Saatchi Gallery) ★★★
The first thing we see are the coloured balaclavas, once we’ve put our belongings into numbered lockers that correspond with the order in which we enter the room. There’s a frisson of excitement if you’re a fan of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist collective that stormed a Moscow cathedral in 2012 with a 40 second […]
REVIEW: THE WOMAN IN WHITE (The Charing Cross Theatre) ★★★★★
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical The Woman In White, based on the 1859 novel by Willie Collins, premiered in London’s West End in 2004 where it ran for eighteen months. The following year the show opened on Broadway where it ran for just four months. Now, in 2017 the show has been revived in London at […]