REVIEW: POSH (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★★
Laura Wade’s Posh is a widely celebrated and respected play (also known by its film adaptation title, The Riot Club), well known to many. I have seen countless productions of it and yet Cressida Carré’s interpretation breathes a new life into this phenomenal show. The all-female cast is filled with talented and passionate actress’s. The […]
REVIEW: SUBLIME (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★
Sophie is in serious trouble and needs her brother Sam’s assistance. She has been living in Italy, and has remained out of contact with Sam for two years, but now, unexpectedly, she is back and needs to rekindle their previous criminal partnership. Sophie walks into a dark apartment carrying a torch. When Sam returns, he […]
REVIEW: MISS NIGHTINGALE (The Vaults) ★★★★
The fifth production of Miss Nightingale since its conception in 2011 and has set up home at The Vaults in Waterloo. The venue could not be more perfect for a war-time musical where bombs are dropping in the streets. The old vaults with bare brick walls and cold musky smell, make you feel like you […]
REVIEW: EXECUTIONER NUMBER ONE (Soho Theatre) ★★★
Ian has found his calling long ago in the role as professional hangman. His sole purpose is to become Britain’s Executioner Number One. Following the death of his boss, the dream finally seems up for grabs. Given his lifelong never-faulting passion, years of experience and comradeship with his former superior, Ian is the obvious choice […]
REVIEW: THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★
Edward Albee has taken over London’s Haymarket, with two of his productions around the corner from one another, both of which are violent, distressing and difficult for both the actor and the audience member. Winner of the Tony Award for Best New Play and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Goat, or […]
REVIEW: HEADS UP (Battersea Arts Centre) ★★★★
We’re dangerous when we’re dying. Just like beetles. So says Kieran Hurley, in his new show Heads Up. He holds his audience in thrall; he is eerie and wild with red-rimmed eyes and an air of delirium. Within seconds, we’re hanging on his every word. Is he a puppet master, or just a storyteller with […]
REVIEW: 42ND STREET (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) ★★★★★
Come and meet those dancing feet, Forty-Second Street 42nd Street opened in the West End last night at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane with a huge cast of over fifty actors, singers and tap dancers. Heading up the cast is Grammy Award winner Sheena Easton as Dorothy Brock. The 1980 Broadway Musical hasn’t been seen […]
REVIEW: KERRY ELLIS & BRIAN MAY rock out on new album GOLDEN DAYS ★★★★★
I was hesitant when I heard that West End and Broadway leading lady Kerry Ellis would be releasing her latest album without really any musical theatre cover songs on it. Instead, this time around, an album of five self penned songs by herself and long time collaborator and Queen guitarist Brian May and a collection […]
REVIEW: GOLDSTONE LIVE (Hippodrome Casino) ★★★★
Goldstone are three super-glamorous female singers. They dress in beautiful sparkling clingy dresses, every inch the stars. They are lovely. This was Goldstone‘s first ever public performance, having previously restricted them selves to international corporate events with other artists, such as Lee Mead and various Osmond brothers. The Hippodrome is a nightclub of the old […]
REVIEW: GREASE (Liverpool Empire) ★★★
The pulling power of Grease has never been more prevalent than opening night at the vast auditorium of the Liverpool Empire Theatre, when a two-thousand-strong sold out audience sang along with “Hopelessly Devoted to You”. Producer David Ian struck gold back in the day when he took the most popular movie musical of all time […]