Stagey Summer Season line up announced for Live At Zedel
Highlights of the 2018 Live At Zedel summer season include Girls Aloud pop star Kimberley Walsh in her Live At Zédel debut An Intimate Evening with Kimberley Walsh revisiting classics from her illustrious career, designed specifically for the intimacy of Crazy Coqs and Kerry Ellis with a three-week residency in September to celebrate the 20th […]
REVIEW: AN EVENING OF MEAT (Vaults) ★★
An Evening of Meat at The Vaults is an intriguing premise: a ‘dinner installation’ where choreography, performance art and food collide for an evening of quite literal dinner theatre! Guests arrive at The Vaults and after being ‘checked in’ by the hostess in her red velvet suit, are directed down a black corridor lined with […]
REVIEW: BUILDING THE WALL (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wall brought the stars out for press night, with Bryan Cranston and Juliet Stevenson among its esteemed audience. It’s little surprise. Schenkkan’s latest play is a nice little coup for the Park Theatre – an 80 minute gallop through a near-dystopian (but still bleakly Trumpian) future, which has already found favour […]
Cast announced for SAN DOMINO at the Tristan Bates Theatre
Final casting has been announced for musical drama San Domino by Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker, based on Mussolini’s infamous persecution of homosexuals. It will play from Tuesday 5 to Saturday 30 June at Tristan Bates Theatre. San Domino is the story of a group of men sentenced to five years confinement for degeneracy on the […]
Rob Houchen chats about West End Does: The Magic Of Animation
Tell me about your new West End Production Company, Forty Four Productions – what inspired you to start it and what plans do you have for it? I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved in lots of Concert productions of amazing shows over the last few years at venues such as Cadogan Hall and […]
REVIEW: The Fall (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
The Fall by James Fritz explores the gargantuan gap between young and old and how those on the brink of adulthood contemplate the rate at which it closes. Fritz touches upon the disorientating consideration of mortality, how difficult it is for young people to get onto the property ladder and the ‘fall’ into ominous lack […]
REVIEW: THE TAP PACK (Peacock Theatre) ★★★★
Inspired by the legendary “Rat Pack” which included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr, The Tap Pack is a high energy tap comedy show. Dressed in sharp suits, bursting with wit and charm, Australia’s most handsome male Tap show brings it’s entertaining mix of swing music, witty banter and tap dancing to The […]
REVIEW: FOX HUNTING (Courtyard Theatre) ★★★★
Fox Hunting, created by David Alade and produced by Elah Productions (a company supporting new talent to tell stories in a refreshing and artistic way) comes to the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton for a three week run. 21 year old Alade was raised in Peckham and wanted to tell the stories behind knife crime in […]
New cast announced for the London production of LES MISERABLES
Major cast changes are happening at Les Miserables in London next month. From 11 June 2018 Dean Chisnall will star as ‘Jean Valjean’; Toby Miles as ‘Marius’; Elena Skye as ‘Eponine’; Vivien Parry as ‘Madame Thénardier’ and Amara Okereke as ‘Cosette’. Continuing in their roles are Steven Meo as ‘Thénardier’ and Carley Stenson as ‘Fantine’. […]
New musical WASTED about the Brontë Sisters comes to Southwark Playhouse
Through the lens of a rock documentary, Wasted is a brand new musical that gives an access-all-areas account of the struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs of the three Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell. Brought up in a remote, poverty-stricken town in Yorkshire, without money or opportunity, they fought ill health, unrequited love […]