Star Casting: Don’t be so hard on Sarah Harding
Last week, the highly anticipated new production of GHOST the musical kicked off its UK Tour at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre starring pop singer Sarah Harding from Girls Aloud (the one that Cheryl Cole was in). Over the past few days a tyrant of abuse has been thrown at the singer for apparently giving a […]
Wilma’s Top Ten Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shows
REVIEW: RAINBOW CLASS (Assembly Hall) ★★★★★ Vivienne Acheampong (The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time) draws on her past experience of being a primary school teacher in this one woman comedy sketch show which is playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Rainbow Class is one of the best things I saw […]
BLOG: Are all reviews an honest review?
Despite what some people think, I do actually write positive reviews sometimes. There is nothing more lovely than receiving a message from an actor, writer or producer thanking me for a wonderful review of their show. However it’s always an amusing notion that they are thanking me, when all I have done is talk about […]
BLOG: Should hardcore fans be given priority booking for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD?
We knew it would happen. Yesterday, 250,000 additional tickets to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child went on sale, taking booking up to December 2017. It took just three hours for the tickets to sell out, leaving some fans in online ticketing queues with almost 200,000 people ahead of them! Most people never stood a chance […]
The beauty of Fringe Festivals
August is always a busy month for theatre goers. Tomorrow I head up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a week where I am planning to see 30 different shows in just 6 days! Crazy right? Well, not really as just about everyone who goes is doing the same. The Camden Fringe Festival, which kicked […]
25 shows I’m looking forward to seeing at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
It’s that time of year where I have spent several days scouring through the Edinburgh Fringe Festival catalogue, looking at what shows are playing this year and whittling down my list of shows I want to see whilst I am up there for one week 5-12 August 2016. I thought I would share with you […]
BLOG: I took a gamble on GUYS AND DOLLS tickets tickets and won!
This week I decided to go and check out Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson make her West End debut as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at the Phoenix Theatre (review coming soon!) I’m a sucker for a bargain and have often blogged in the past about discounted Restricted View seats and how sometimes they can […]
Theatre: If you’re going to make it, you gotta pay for it
There have been a few articles online recently about how difficult it is to put on a theatre show in today’s climate and the astronomical costs associated with it. Some of these articles appear to be a scapegoat, making excuses for why there is no money to pay actors. But is there ever really an […]
STOP THE HATE on social media
There is an unusually large amount of hate on social media right now… All I seem to see lately are reports of people having blocked other people, simply because they expressed an opinion they didn’t agree with. In one case, a theatre critic blocked a blogger after some comments that were made. That blogger then […]
How good is Theatre security in the UK?
It’s hard not to be affected by the terrible news about a mass killing in an American nightclub which took place on Saturday night and has seen more than fifty people shot dead. Questions are flying around about how the killer managed to get into the club with a machine gun in the first place and this […]