REVIEW: A Pupil (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Park Theatre hosts the world premiere of A Pupil, a new play by Evening Standard Award nominated writer Jesse Briton, exploring music, success and friendship through the unlikely connection of a young aspiring musician and a once world famous violinist. The action is set in a run down bedsit where Ye is preparing to end […]
RuPaul’s Drag Race star Todrick Hall to join the London cast of CHICAGO
Star of RuPaul’s Drag Race, American Idol and YouTube sensation Todrick Hall will star as Billy Flynn in CHICAGO from 19 November 2018 until the end of the show’s run at the Phoenix Theatre on 5 January 2019. Todrick will join Sarah Soetaert as Roxie Hart, Josefina Gabrielle as Velma Kelly, Mazz Murray as Mama […]
REVIEW: Drowned or Saved? (Tristian Bates Theatre) ★★★★
Drowned or Saved is a new play by first time playwright Geoffrey Williams playing at Tristan Bates Theatre. Williams has taken on the challenge of presenting the work of holocaust survivor and revolutionary thinker, Primo Levi, in an attempt to share Levi’s message of humanity, compassion and perseverance. Primo Levi has become recognised around the […]
Reflecting on the 2018 West End Wilma Awards (plus photos and videos)
Was it really a whole week ago that we held the 5th West End Wilma Awards?! I am only just starting to process the whole thing now I am back home in Paris and can enjoy some time to breathe. The Wilma Awards takes at least six months of planning and so it is a […]
REVIEW: Don Quixote (Garrick Theatre) ★★★
This Royal Shakespeare Company production is based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, telling the story of Don Quixote de la Mancha, a noble man who decides to bring the age of chivalry back to Spain. He embarks on a quest to become a knight errant […]
REVIEW: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE (Apollo Theatre) ★★★
Based on the BBC Three documentary ‘Jamie: Drag Queen at 16’, ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ is a musical version of his story, which celebrated it’s one year birthday at the Apollo theatre this week. Culminating in Jamie’s school prom, which he attends in a dress, the show charts Jamie’s struggle towards self acceptance and the reactions […]
Are theatregoers ‘entitled’ to get autographs after a seeing a show?
Earlier this week, someone posted a photo online of a sign outside of the Gielgud Theatre, saying that Patti LuPone and Rosalie Craig would not be coming out of the stage door between the matinee and the evening performance and that if people wanted autographs, they could leave their items at the stage door to […]
Kerry Ellis joins 1,000 West End Stage students to record A Million Dreams in aid of NSPCC Childline
Kerry Ellis, star of the West End and Broadway, has teamed up with 1,000 West End Stage students, for a special charity fundraising recording of A Million Dreams from the hit film, The Greatest Showman. All proceeds will go to the NSPCC’s Childline service (0800 1111), which is there to give young people a voice […]
Ian McKellen celebrates his 80th birthday with a new solo show, touring across the UK
Tolkien, Shakespeare, others …and you! Ian McKellen is to celebrate his 80th birthday next year by raising funds for theatres, with a new solo show which will play on 80 stages across the UK. It all begins in January 2019 with a Tour of London from the National Theatre to the Theatre Royal Stratford East, […]
Check out these rehearsal images of Kit Harington and Johnny Flynn in TRUE WEST
Check out these rehearsal images of Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and Johnny Flynn (Beast and US TV series Genius), who are starring in Sam Shepard’s ferociously funny, modern classic, True West, the first UK production of Shepard’s work since his death last summer. True West will play a limited season at the Vaudeville Theatre […]