AVENUE Q to head back out on tour in 2019!
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be heading to a theatre near you as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favourite fuzzy friends, opening in at Portsmouth Kings Theatre 21 January 2019. Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and […]
REVIEW: SOLDIER ON (Playground Theatre) ★★★★★
Solider On is a new play by Jonathan Lewis, currently on a small tour of the UK (next stops: Oxford and York). But, it is so much more than ‘another new play with a message’ – it is a masterpiece and a sure-fire box office hit. An extended run, a West End residence, even a […]
REVIEW: JERSEY BOYS (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★★
New Jersey, the 4th smallest state by area but possibly the greatest for musical influence, has spawned some of the world’s most iconic performers – Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Debbie Harry, Jon Bon Jovi, Dionne Warwick and Whitney Houston all hail from this, the US’s most densely populated province, but it is perhaps […]
Spotlight on ‘Best New Musical’ at the Olivier Awards 2018
Dubbed the West End’s biggest night, the Olivier Awards are just weeks away and so we thought we’d take a look at this year’s nominees for the Mastercard Best New Musical… An American In Paris at The Dominion Theatre This timeless classic melted the hearts of theatre goers from March 2017 until early January 2018 […]
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY – a musical review comes to London
Give My Regards to Broadway a new musical review celebrating New York’s Greatest Showtunes from 1902 – 1942 will receive it’s world premiere at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate Village from 17th July – 5th August 2018 with press night on 18th July 2018. This all singing, all dancing energetic new musical revue will take […]
REVIEW: ASSASSINS (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
Having never seen Assassins and with a penchant for all things ‘murder’ and an appetite for true crime, I rocked up to the Press Night of this production full of anticipation and I wasn’t disappointed. The Pleasance Theatre (once you get used to its out of comfort zone location) is warm and welcoming and the perfect […]
REVIEW: DOLLYWOULD (Soho Theatre) ★★★
DollyWould, the latest show from Sh!t Theatre, is a funny and timely reminder that it’s okay for theatre to be silly, and it’s okay for audiences to expect silly theatre to be created and performed to a high standard. Becca and Louise wanted to make a show about something they love. So they made a show about […]
DEAR EVAN HANSEN the novel set to be released
Penguin Random House is delighted to be publishing DEAR EVAN HANSEN: THE NOVEL, a sharply funny and poignant novel which will expand upon the story and characters made famous by the six-time Tony Award-winning (including: Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score) Broadway musical of the same name, set to hit the West End in […]
REVIEW: LOVE?! (Old Red Lion Theatre) ★★★
‘Love?! A Catastrophic 21st Century Guide on Relationships’ is certainly one the longest titles for any play I have seen recently. The play itself, by Chloé Wipraechtiger, is short, unsatisfyingly so, and I would have liked more time to allow further character development, which could have better evolved the intertwined mini-playlets into a rounded piece. […]
Anita Dobson to star in 3WOMEN – a new play by comedian Katy Brand
3Women, the debut play by the award-winning comedian and writer Katy Brand, will premiere at Trafalgar Studios 2, starring the celebrated screen and stage actress Anita Dobson (Eleanor), alongside Debbie Chazen (Suzanne), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Laurie), and Oliver Greenall (Waiter). Running from 15 May to 9 June 2018, with press night on 18 May, 3Women explores […]