REVIEW: WHATSONSTAGE AWARDS 2018 (Prince of Wales Theatre)
You can’t really go wrong with seeing the highest quality of West End theatrical talent, from some of the biggest shows of the year in the intimate, two-tier space of the Prince of Wales Theatre. So reviewing something like the WhatsOnStage Awards isn’t difficult to do. One of the most entertaining and light-hearted awards ceremonies […]
Week 5 Living In Paris: Admitting I’m not Elsa because the cold does bother me
Last week I started taking French lessons (I guessed it was about time to get serious with this living in Paris malarkey) with a real life french person! Sitting in a cafe I had to face my biggest fear (one that I have been avoiding since starting to learn french), conjugating verbs. I don’t even […]
REVIEW: AD LIBIDO (Vault Festival) ★★★
It takes a daring comedy writer to take on the challenge of female sexual dysfunction. This brash, one-woman show is, for some, a firm favourite at the Vault Festival 2018. The show is a snapshot in time, telling the story of Fran Busche, the writer and energetic performer of her own tale of vaginal woe. […]
REVIEW: FOUL PAGES (The Hope Theatre) ★★★
Foul Pages is a compelling hour and a half long play set in Wilton Hall, where the Countess of Pembroke has enlisted William Shakespeare himself to put on a play that will make the King look favourably on her lover Sir Walter Raleigh who languishes in prison, accused of a plot to depose him. Some […]
REVIEW: THE YORK REALIST (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★★★
The York Realist, currently playing at the Donmar Warehouse before a brief stint at The Sheffield Crucible, is a play by Peter Gill, written in 2001 but set in the early 1960s. The play tells the story of George, a Yorkshire farm labourer (Ben Batt) who is cast in a production of the York Mystery […]
Belinda Davids talks about The Greatest Love Of All: The Whitney Houston Show
You beat 15,000 other hopefuls to land the role of Whitney. How was the audition process? A close friend of mine called me and told me to go audition for the Whitney Houston show. I wasn’t prepared to go having just had a baby however, after some cajoling, I went anyway. The audition was at […]
LES MISERABLES announces new UK & Ireland Tour
After nearly a decade since the last UK tour sold out within days, Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce that his acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical LES MISÉRABLES will open at Curve Leicester for a season from Saturday 3 – Saturday 24 November 2018. Cameron Mackintosh said, “Since I first conceived the […]
THE WIPERS TIMES bring World War One ‘trench humour’ to the stage
Following sold-out UK tours in 2016 and 2017, and a critically acclaimed hit run at the Arts Theatre in the West End in 2017, The Wipers Times will once again tour the UK this Autumn, with casting to be announced. Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s The Wipers Times – a stage adaptation of their award-winning […]
Cast announced for KISS ME, KATE at the London Coliseum
Opera North’s award-winning production of Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy, Kiss Me, Kate, opens at Leeds Grand Theatre in May, then touring to the Ravenna Festival, to the London Coliseum for a two-week run in June, and moving to the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh in July. Cole Porter’s riotously inventive homage to the sparkling wit of […]
The Muppets announce their most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational, full-length live show
Inspired by their hit 1980s variety TV show The Muppet Show, this magical event will be headlined by Kermit The Frog, leading an all-star cast of pigs, bears and whatevers in…. The Muppets Take The O2! Live on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 July, The Muppets will be lighting up The O2 for 2 evenings […]