REVIEW: PEPPA PIG’S BEST DAY EVER at Theatre Royal Haymarket
Peppa Pig’s Best Day Ever!, the latest live show based on the much loved animated TV series ‘Peppa Pig’ has paused its UK and Ireland tour over the festive season to hop on a sleigh into London’s West End playing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until 2 January 2022. Peppa Pig is excited for a […]
REVIEW: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED (London)
The world’s first Monopoly Lifesized is now welcoming players to the board in central London and I recently had a chance to go and play! It’s a live interactive version of the classic family board game, where players must complete tasks and games in order to win properties (like the Crystal Maze) and money. For […]
REVIEW: A PERFECT CHRISTMAS (Above The Stag Cabaret Lounge)
A Perfect Christmas is a festive extravaganza that will really get you in the mood for the season. After a successful run last year at the Cockpit Theatre, the musical revue has taken up residency at Above The Stag Cabaret Lounge in Vauxhall with Christmas carols, songs, poems and personal anecdotes from the performer’s real […]
REVIEW: LIFE OF PI (Wyndham’s Theatre)
There are many times in our lives when we contemplate what has been and why it happened. Sometimes our memories are vague and we confuse fantasy and reality. In Life of Pi our main character has plenty of time for reflection. After a tragic accident, he alone survives. But how did he manage it? And […]
REVIEW: HEATHERS (The Other Palace)
Based on the 1989 film ‘Heathers‘ starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, ‘Heathers The Musical‘ is a dark comedy about growing up and trying to fit in at school. Seventeen-year-old Veronica Sawyer just wants an easy life. She makes a deal with ‘The Heathers’ (three girls who all share the same name) to join their […]
REVIEW: MANOR (National Theatre)
Manor is a darkly comic new play by Moira Buffini (The Dig, Handbagged), now playing in the Lyttleton at the National Theatre. A storm is brewing in rural England and Diana (Nancy Carroll) is struggling to keep the roof on her run-down manor house, which is beginning to take in water. Husband Pete (Owen McDonnell) […]
REVIEW: JUDY – REIMAGINED (Clapham Grand)
The Clapham Grand is celebrating its 121st birthday this week – famed for having some of the greatest music hall performers of all time grace its stage, including Charlie Chaplin. A celebration of Judy Garland‘s 1961 Concert at Carnegie Hall took place last weekend, paying homage to the historical show, with backing from the 25-piece […]
REVIEW: CHICAGO (Churchill Theatre Bromley)
Ask any of the chickies in my pen, they’ll tell you I’m the biggest Chicago fan – so I was excited to finally catch the latest UK Tour in Bromley this week starring Darren Day (Billy Flynn), Sinitta Malone (Mama Morton), Faye Brooks (Roxie) and Djalenga Scott (Velma). Chicago tells the true story of Chicago […]
REVIEW: LA CLIQUE (Leicester Square Spiegeltent)
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a cabaret. There’s something about the atmosphere in the Spiegeltent; everyone claps a little bit harder, shouts a little bit louder and shrieks a little bit higher. It’s electrifying. It’s also mesmerising. No matter how many times you’ve seen similar acts before, the performers are still able to shock and […]
REVIEW: VANYA AND SONYA AND MASHA AND SPIKE (Charing Cross Theatre)
Previously postponed from March 2020, the London premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang, has finally opened at the Charing Cross Theatre in London starring 2-time Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee. Vanya and his sister Sonia live a quiet life in the Pennsylvania farmhouse where they grew up, looking out of […]