REVIEW: THE LAST FIVE YEARS (Garrick Theatre, 2021) ★★★★★
Jason Robert Brown’s musical, The Last Five Years, is one of his best works. So I am delighted to see this new production in the West End at the Garrick Theatre for a four-week run, especially because I didn’t get a chance to see it at the Southwark Playhouse last year. Molly Lynch and Oli […]
REVIEW: BILLIONAIRE BOY (Garrick Theatre, 2021) ★★★★
Following the success of the award-winning ‘Gangsta Granny’ in 2017, Birmingham Stage Company are back in the West End with the stage premiere of David Walliams’ 2010 children’s book, ‘Billionaire Boy‘ at the Garrick Theatre. What do you give your son for his twelfth birthday when you’re a billionaire? Well, last year Joe Spud, son […]
REVIEW: SHOWSTOPPER! THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL ★★★★★
We all improvise. Whether it’s to keep our children quiet, buy more time at work or reassure ourselves, we all think on our feet. But it’s not easy. Try doing it in rhyme. To music. With an audience… But this is exactly what Showstopper! at the Garrick Theatre does. Each night the team put on […]
REVIEW: DEATH DROP (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★★
Death Drop – a ‘Dragatha Christie’ murder mystery is back in the West End (at the Garrick Theatre) after lockdown, bringing camp comedy to the stage by a whole bunch of well known drag queens. The story is fun. It’s 1991 and to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary of Charles and Diana, The Lady has […]
REVIEW: ‘Potted Panto’ at the Garrick Theatre ★★★
A Christmas production of ‘Potted Panto‘ comes to the West End this Christmas for a bit of silly fun at the Garrick Theatre. The concept; seven pantomimes told in just seventy minutes. From Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, to Cinderella and Dick Whittington, some of the UK’s most loved festive shows are brought to life. […]
REVIEW: NOISES OFF (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★★
After watching a performance of his 1970 farce ‘The Two of Us’ from backstage at the Garrick Theatre, celebrated playwright Michael Frayn commented “It was funnier from behind than in front and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind.” His “farce from behind” started as the short one-act play ‘Exits’ […]
REVIEW: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★
As Hallowe’en approaches, everyone starts feeling ghoulish and as the night’s draw in, curling up with a good horror film seems like the perfect night in. Mel Brooks‘ horror film parody Young Frankenstein came out in 1974 and was one of the highest grossing films of the year, So, for fans of musicals and freaky […]
REVIEW: Gangsta Granny (Garrick Theatre) ★★★★
The Birmingham Stage Company production of David Walliams‘ well loved children’s book Gangsta Granny has made it’s way on to London’s West End stage after touring the UK, for a summer season as the Garrick Theatre. Ben is eleven years old and dreads the weekends coming around because he has to stay with his Granny […]
Let It Be – Garrick Theatre
I had seen Let It Be back in 2013 when it was playing in the West End at the Savoy Theatre, and was excited to refresh my memory with what I remembered being a good time all around. As a massive Beatles fan, I am always looking forward anything that involves the Fab Four, so […]