REVIEW: Everybody’s talking about Jamie (Apollo Theatre) ★★★★
Layton Williams lights up the West End stage, as he steps in to the red high heels of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. Based on the story of Jamie Campbell, who was featured in the documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opened at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in February 2017. The […]
Should understudies have their performances reviewed?
Understudy; (noun) a person who learns another’s role in order to be able to act at short notice in their absence.’ I’m a big fan of championing understudies in theatre. If I happen to see a show when an understudy is performing, I will always try to write some kind of review online about it, […]
REVIEW: I Would Like to Get to Know You (Vaults festival) ★★
I Would Like to Get to Know You, like most – arguably, all theatre – is seeking the meaning of love. The L word, hand in hand with sex, affection, rejection, jealousy and heartbreak, has taken on a new meaning in the age of technology – a fact which is frankly mundane in its blatancy […]
New cast announced for CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL as it continues its UK & Ireland Tour
A new cast for the UK & Ireland Tour of CALENDAR GIRLS THE MUSICAL, has been announced. Starring Sarah Jane Buckley as Annie, Sue Devaney as Cora, Julia Hills as Ruth, Judy Holt as Marie and Lisa Maxwell as Celia, the new cast will make their debut at Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, on 23 April 2019. […]
REVIEW: TOKENS OF AFFECTION (Waterloo East Theatre) ★★★★
Tokens of Affection, written by award winning playwright Maureen Lawrence, has its London premiere at Waterloo East Theatre right now. Lawrence’s play is based on her experience of working in a unit for violent adolescent girls in Bradford in the 1980s and the scenes are borne from situations she encountered daily. The Tokens in the […]
REVIEW: DRACULA (The London Library) ★★
For the first time since its founding in 1841 The London Library uses its reading rooms for the staging of a play. The choice of Bram Stoker’s enduring horror tale is a fitting one because a recent discovery of particular books on the library shelves, matched with Stoker’s Notes on Dracula, proves pretty conclusively that […]
REVIEW: JENNA RUSSELL with SETH RUDETSKY (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★
Jenna Russel, the voice behind the Red Dwarf theme tune, first launched her theatrical career as Fantine in Les Misérables in the early 1990s. Following this, success only grew for the Dundee-raised actress, as she then went on to play young Sally in Follies, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, and won an Olivier Award […]
REVIEW: AVENUE Q (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★
Guess Q’s back, and attended the Gala night for Avenue Q at New Wimbledon Theatre? Yup, Me! Now, this was a first time watch of the show, and since it’s been over a decade since the show was introduced to the West End, obviously I had heard many of the songs, but nothing would quite […]
REVIEW: HOME, I’M DARLING (Duke Of Yorks Theatre) ★★★
Sideburns. Poodle skirts. Rationing. Just some of the trends the 1950s were recognisable for. First seen at Theatre Clwyd followed by a sold-out run at the National, Home, I’m Darling by Lauren Wade celebrates all things fifties with the story of a 21st century woman wanting to live her life as if she lived in […]
REVIEW: WEST END WOMEN (Cadogan Hall) ★★★★
It was ‘ladies’ night’ again at Cadogan Hall recently, where Lambert Jackson held a companion concert to their previous shindig “There Is Nothing Like A Dame”, in August 2018. In very much the same vein as that (brilliant) production, “West End Women” saw three of London’s biggest and brightest talents take to the stage, with […]