REVIEW: WORKING (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
Working is a genre-defining musical based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling 1974 book, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. Put simply, Working is a musical about the everyday American’s daily working life. Look a bit closer and it’s so much more! With a book by Grammy […]
REVIEW: PUNTS (Theatre 503) ★★★★
Punts, written by Sarah Page, finds itself in the intimate location that is Theatre 503 above the Latchmere Pub. The Latchmere serves great food, and the theatre itself benefits from tiered seating and a clear view of the stage, so we were already off to a good start. We meet Jack, a 25-year-old young man […]
REVIEW: ROLLER DINER (Soho Theatre) ★★★★
“Why doncha rip my dress? Write “bitch” on me in my lipstick? Burn me with your cigarette? I wanna be shocking Wanna know how it feels” Soho Theatre presents the UK Premiere of the 2015 Verity Bargate Award-Winning comedy musical Roller Diner, written by Stephen Jackson. This hilarious new comedy takes place in a run-down, […]
REVIEW: TWITSTORM (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Chris England has previously written some highly successful plays including An Evening With Gary Lineker and Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson. Chris has now changed tack with this play, left behind sports heroes and takes on the far bigger subject, Twitter. This is the world premier of Twitstorm. This comedy play concerns TV personality, Guy Manton, […]
REVIEW: SAND IN THE SANDWICHES (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★
“I made hay while the sun shone. My work sold. Now, if the harvest is over And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter As I lose hold.” Sir John Betjeman is one of Britain’s best loved poets, with his humorous and poignant verse the very heart of the good old days. In […]
REVIEW: ORDINARY DAYS (London Theatre Workshop) ★★★★
Ordinary Days follows the parallel lives of four New Yorkers, struggling to find meaning in their hectic yet ordinary lives. The cast takes on this show with energy, passion and enthusiasm and between the 4 of them they manage to create a hustling, bustling New York setting. Kirby Hughes portrays the character Claire with grace […]
REVIEW: RACHEL TUCKER – ON THE ROAD ★★★
I loved Rachel Tucker‘s first album The Reason back in 2013 and so I was excited to hear her new CD, On The Road. Rachel says that the album came about quite quickly, after a run of sold out shows at London’s Crazy Coqs earlier this year, when she decided she wanted to “record my versions […]
REVIEW: ON THE TOWN (Regents Park Open Air Theatre) ★★★
On The Town is a classic musical based on a concept by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolf Green. Three sailors with 24 hours shore leave hit New York determined to each meet a girl and have a good time. Straight away on the subway, […]
REVIEW: DEATH OF THE KING – An Immersive Punk Murder Mystery (COLAB Factory) ★★★★
Immersive Theatre company ImmerCity‘s latest show is an immersive punk murder mystery, Death of the King, being held at an abandoned rug factory (CoLab Factory) near London Bridge. As the only survivor of an 80’s punk rock band, Jack takes the Investigative Journalists (that would be us, the audience) back to that fateful night; the last […]
REVIEW: WAR PAINT (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ★★★★
Earlier this year I was honoured to see one of the most love actresses of our time, Patti LuPone, live on the Broadway stage. She is currently performing alongside Christine Ebersole in War Paint – a new musical, which opened to rave reviews a few months ago. The Original Broadway Cast Recording has just been […]