REVIEW: LEAVE TO REMAIN (Lyric Hammersmith) ★★★★
Leave to Remain is a play written by Matt Jones and Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke. Don’t be fooled by the title, it’s not a play about Brexit; there’s a passing reference and a Visa issue but this is a love story, with songs. When Jones and Okereke began collaborating, they wanted to tell a story […]
REVIEW: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (The Other Palace) ★★★★★
Theatre is renowned for its risk – financial restraints, the inherent vulnerability that comes with sharing ideas and the unpredictable variables of audience respect and enjoyment. However, a forgotten line or tripping up aside, thorough rehearsals mean there is little on the line where actual performance is concerned. What makes multi-award winning Showstopper! so novel […]
REVIEW: Solve-A-Long-A-Murder-She-Wrote (Royal Vauxhall Tavern) ★★★★
Re-watching very old TV series is something that a lot of us really enjoy, but rarely ever sit down and do. Perhaps because we wonder if, in comparison to modern-day creations, it’s going to be a bit naff – after all, cameras and audio have come on a long way in the past few decades […]
New British Musical THE CEREAL CAFE gets World Premiere in London
A new British musical, The Cereal Café, inspired by the opening of the Cereal Killer Café in East London and the Shoreditch riots of 2015, is to get its world premiere at The Other Palace. Based on the childhood fantasies of two young brothers, an extraordinary café is opening on the vibrant streets of East […]