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 […]
TITANIC: Blogger Review Round-up
There are always review round-ups for theatre shows after press nights, giving a bite size look at what critics thought of shows across the board. It’s nice to see at a glance what the bigwigs like The Times, The Telegraph and The Stage think but there is never really any mention of us smaller fish, […]
Ten reasons why WICKED should release a Live CD of the 10th Anniversary production
With today’s exciting news announcement of the 10th Anniversay cast of Wicked who will start performances on 5 September 2016, the birthday performance on 27 September is looking very exciting indeed. This has got me thinking how now could be the perfect time to record a live cd of the London production and here are […]
Have we taken Theatre Etiquette too far?
Blogs about etiquette are nothing new in the world of theatre. Talking about bad behaviour and how audience members ‘should’ behave come up every day online with disgruntled (one of my favourite words) audience members talking about what they witnessed at a show the night before. I myself am no stranger to writing these types […]
WICKED holds its first Relaxed Performance and I was there to share the experience
“A relaxed performance is about welcoming children with special needs (including Autistic Spectrum Conditions and/or learning disabilities) and, crucially, their families to the theatre to a performance where those needs are accounted for with a more relaxed atmosphere and some changes to the production itself if necessary eg: lowering of lights or sound at certain […]