REVIEW: BEAUTIFUL (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★★
Beautiful – where do I start? It’s a fabulous, upbeat and uplifting Show… 5 Stars from me. Go and Book a ticket now! Ok Maybe I should try to justify that reaction a little. This is a review after all! Beautiful tells the story of Carole King and her rise to stardom and weaves in […]
REVIEW: Harold and Maude (Charing Cross Theatre) ★★★★
The cult 1971 film Harold and Maude is beloved for its big heart and black humour. Part romantic comedy, part dark satire, it was first produced as a stage play in 1974. Its London debut at The Charing Cross Theatre is a touching, bittersweet confection full of life-lessons to help us think beyond the conventional. […]
REVIEW: WHATSONSTAGE AWARDS 2018 (Prince of Wales Theatre)
You can’t really go wrong with seeing the highest quality of West End theatrical talent, from some of the biggest shows of the year in the intimate, two-tier space of the Prince of Wales Theatre. So reviewing something like the WhatsOnStage Awards isn’t difficult to do. One of the most entertaining and light-hearted awards ceremonies […]
REVIEW: AD LIBIDO (Vault Festival) ★★★
It takes a daring comedy writer to take on the challenge of female sexual dysfunction. This brash, one-woman show is, for some, a firm favourite at the Vault Festival 2018. The show is a snapshot in time, telling the story of Fran Busche, the writer and energetic performer of her own tale of vaginal woe. […]
REVIEW: FOUL PAGES (The Hope Theatre) ★★★
Foul Pages is a compelling hour and a half long play set in Wilton Hall, where the Countess of Pembroke has enlisted William Shakespeare himself to put on a play that will make the King look favourably on her lover Sir Walter Raleigh who languishes in prison, accused of a plot to depose him. Some […]
REVIEW: THE YORK REALIST (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★★★
The York Realist, currently playing at the Donmar Warehouse before a brief stint at The Sheffield Crucible, is a play by Peter Gill, written in 2001 but set in the early 1960s. The play tells the story of George, a Yorkshire farm labourer (Ben Batt) who is cast in a production of the York Mystery […]
REVIEW: FLASHDANCE (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★
Being a child of the 70’s, I fondly remember listening to the Soundtrack of Flashdance on my cassette recorder and then queuing up at my local cinema to watch Jennifer Beales strut her stuff in a leotard and leg warmers. For those of you too young to remember the 1983 film Flashdance, it tells the […]
REVIEW: THE TROTH (Curve Leicester) ★★★
Curve Leicester plays host to the UK premiere of Akademi’s powerful production The Troth this week. The story was born out of a desire to simultaneously celebrate the centenary of the Great War, and to pay homage to the 60,000 Indian soldiers killed, whilst acknowledging 70 years since India’s independence from the British Empire. A […]
REVIEW: LE BODYGUARD (Palais des Sports) ★★★
Based on the 1992 film starring Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Musical opened in London in 2012 where it played for eighteen months before heading out on tour around the UK. The French production of the show has just opened in Paris for a six week run before it tours around France with songs performed in […]
REVIEW: Osric Omand and the Story of Hope ★★★★ (Drayton Arms Theatre)
Well – what was that?! Last night I saw the closing night of Osric Omand and the Story of Hope and I am none the wiser. Billed as a ‘horror-action-comedy’ it certainly delivered all three elements, although the comedy was the pervading influence throughout the whole piece. In fact, it was the funniest thing I […]