REVIEW: Freaky Friday The Musical at HOME Manchester (2025)
Freaky Friday the Musical – Not Bad, Just Flawed but Full of Potential The new stage musical Freaky Friday, based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel and the hit Disney films starring Jodie Foster in 1976 and later Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 2003, has arrived in the UK for its premiere at HOME […]
Review: Paddington the Musical (Savoy Theatre) December 2025
Paddington the Musical is a heart-warming, marmalade-filled West End treat The hugely anticipated Paddington the Musical has finally opened at London’s Savoy Theatre, and the buzz is enormous. With original music by Tom Fletcher (of McFly fame) and a life-sized Paddington brought to the stage by three performers every night, expectations for this new British […]
REVIEW: CINDERELLA (Theatre Royal Nottingham) -December 2025
Cinderella, you shall go to the ball – or at least to the Theatre Royal Nottingham. It’s officially December which means only one thing: panto season is upon us. My second of 2025 (after the ★★★★★ Growled at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern) was last night’s Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Nottingham. The story is timeless: […]
REVIEW: The Grim (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★ – November 2025
Funny, fast paced and enjoyable but as a two act play and with distracting bulging biceps, The Grim isn’t quite the crime drama I was hoping for. Two East End Undertakers (cockney proprietor Shaun and Irish Catholic Robert) are just trying to get through another dull day in 1960’s London. Although today isn’t quite as […]
REVIEW: Ballet Shoes at National Theatre – November 2025
If you’re looking for a theatre show that charms the whole family, Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre is a triumph. This new stage adaptation delivers warmth, whimsy, and genuine heart. With a ramshackle London home full of fossils and curiosities it feels like a storybook come to life. There are creative video and stage […]
REVIEW: Ride The Cyclone at Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
The ride of my life! The 2009 Canadian musical Ride The Cyclone has become a bit of a cult classic, having played all around the world (including Off-Broadway, Sydney and Buenos Aires). Now, sixteen years on and the show is finally getting its Off-West End premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse, Elephant. Written by Jacob Richmond […]
REVIEW: 🔥 The Hunger Games – Live on Stage
The Hunger Games – live on stage? Sign me up because it sounds incredible! Conor McPherson (most well known for writing the 2017 musical Girl from the North Country, based on the songs of Bob Dylan) sounds like the perfect person to adapt Suzanne Collins’s epic novel The Hunger Games. This live theatrical stage show […]
🎄 Elf The Musical Review – Aldwych Theatre, London (2025)
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear — or, even better, by heading to the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End for some sparklejollytwinklejingley fun! After two sold-out runs at the Dominion Theatre, Elf The Musical is back in London with a refreshed production, complete with a brand-new […]
REVIEW: Gwenda’s Garage (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★
Gwenda’s Garage – dismantling the patriarchy one spark plug at a time After The Act was a brilliant piece of theatre (beginning at the Albany before transferring to the Royal Court), examining the Section 28 law that was introduced by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1988. This law banned schools from teaching about same sex relationships […]
REVIEW: Here & Now – The Steps Musical – November 2025 ★★
Two months into its nine-month tour of the UK, Here & Now – The Steps Musical stops off at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre this week for 5, 6, 7, 8 shows only. Steps are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 number one albums, 22 […]