REVIEW: THE BAND (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★
Not having been a fan of “Take That” I was unsure what to expect with the new “Take That” Musical “The Band” currently running at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. For me, the main issue throughout the show was the plot or to be more precise the lack of plot. Briefly, five girls bunk […]
REVIEW: HOTEL PARADISO (Jackson Lane) ★★★
Jackson Lane describes itself as the North London Creative Space and circus troupe Lost in Translation Circus regard it as a spiritual home for their narrative driven circus act show. Following the success of their show “Hogwallops”, “Hotel Paradiso” tells loosely of the efforts of the hotel owner and her staff to save the business […]
REVIEW: Agnes Colander: An Attempt At Life (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★
Harley Granville Barker was a director, designer and producer around the time of George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Henrik Ibsen, as well as an author and wrote Agnes Colander: An attempt at life in 1900. It was revived as a lost masterpiece at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath in spring 2018, under the […]
The brilliant NOISES OFF returns to London this Summer
Long before Mischief Theatre brought the backstage comedy The Play That Goes Wrong to the West End, making the genre incredibly popular, was the brilliant Noises Off. Noises Off makes a welcome return to the Lyric Hammersmith this summer, thirty six years since it premiered to great acclaim at the theatre in 1982 and instantly […]