REVIEW: RENT (Curve Leicester) ★★★★★
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan, five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure the life of a woman or a man? Rent is by far, one of my all-time favourite musicals. It is for that reason that I didn’t hold high hopes for […]
REVIEW: ADAM & EVE….AND STEVE (Kings Head Theatre) ★★★★
Adam & Eve…And Steve is an easy-going, fun, new comedy musical, which has already enjoyed previous success at both the Hollywood Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For the next five weeks, it is being produced by King’s Head Theatre in association with Flying Entertainment and AES. The show has a small cast – but given […]
REVIEW: BARRED FREEDOM (Cockpit Theatre) ★★★
1970’s Britain. In a cramped prison cell sit two criminals isolated from the rest of the world. Barred Freedom, a new piece of writing by Eugine Ambrosse with two different casts comes to one of London’s more hidden spaces- The Cockpit Theatre. The script is set to be gender neutral, with the two casts alternating […]
REVIEW: THE WIPERS TIMES (ARTS THEATRE) ★★★
Following on from their award-winning 2013 TV film of the same name, writers Ian Hislop and Nick Newman bring the true story of a satirical newspaper written and published by soldiers on the Front Line during the First World War to the stage. Ok, so let’s the title out of the way first, shall we? […]
REVIEW: RUNNING WILD (Hackney Empire) ★★★★
Running Wild is based on a story by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Samuel Adamson and originally produced by Chichester Festival Theatre and Regent’s Park Theatre. The show wowed audiences at Regent’s Park Theatre last summer and comes to Hackney Empire for a short run on its UK tour. Inspired by true events during the Boxing […]
REVIEW: Rachel Tucker (Live at Zedel) ★★★★★
Rachel Tucker has become something of a stage superstar in recent years and fresh from another successful run in the West End production of Wicked has embarked on a UK solo tour Rachel started the tour with a four night sold out run at the Crazy Coqs beneath the Brasserie Zedel and fans of the ultra […]
REVIEW: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Dominion Theatre) ★★★★★
TheDominion Theatre has been around since she 1920’s (undergoing major renovation in 2014), originally showing screenings of films, then as a live concert venue in the 70’s and 80’s for bands like David Bowie and Bonjovi. Since the late 1980’s, the Dominion has been a Musical Theatre venue and now the UK premiere of An […]
REVIEW: THE FULL MONTY (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★★
The Full Monty arrives in Sunderland this week, rude crude and ridiculously funny, but you can leave your hat on! In a packed to the rafters theatre, on springlike Monday evening, there was an air of expectation in the predominantly female audience. The oestrogen overloaded ladies weren’t all young either, there was a large number […]
REVIEW: SHIRLEY VALENTINE (Richmond Theatre) ★★★★
Shirley Valentine sails in to the Richmond Theatre this week starring Jodie Prenger Those of us above a certain age (I.e.me) will have a soft spot for the feature film version of Willy Russell‘s ‘Shirley Valentine‘: a warm, comforting hug of a film. I was fascinated to see how the original play would compare and […]
REVIEW: THE BAD SEED (Jack Studio Theatre) ★★★★
The Bad Seed is an excellent 1954 melodrama, about the circumstances surrounding the death of an innocent young schoolboy in an American, Mid Western town . First performed on the 8th December 1954, on Broadway, it opened in the same year that the original novel was published. The award winning play was adapted by Maxwell […]