REVIEW: THE FROGS (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★
Stephen Sondheim’s Musical The Frogs, adapted by Nathan Lane is now playing at Jermyn Street Theatre Freely adapted by Burt Shevelove from the original Aristophanes play, and even more adapted by Nathan Lane – The Frogs had a short Broadway run in 2004 and confronted political issues and how society handles them. Now Nathan Lane […]
REVIEW: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★
John Partridge gives a career defining performance in La Cage Aux Folles at the New Wimbledon Theatre La Cage Aux Folles (written by Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman) is based on the 1973 play by Jean Poiret. It tells the story of a gay couple who run a drag bar in Saint-Tropez, with one of them […]
REVIEW: HONEYMOON IN VEGAS (London Palladium) ★★★★
Honeymoon in Vegas was a famous film. Then a celebrated Broadway show. And on Sunday night it was a fantastic West End concert To start with, the London Musical Theatre Orchestra are brilliant. Jason Robert Brown’s orchestrations are always a treat, but to actually get to see them performed in front of you is something […]
REVIEW: A DARK NIGHT IN DALSTON (Park Theatre) ★★★★
A Dark Night In Dalston is a dark comedy, full of humour and surprises. Gina is a funny, big hearted and gossipy woman who is about to have her world turned upside down by the arrival of an unexpected stranger called Gideon, and Gideon is unprepared for the dark secret being kept by the delectable Gina. […]
REVIEW: LIMEHOUSE (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★★
One Sunday morning in 1981, four prominent Labour politicians – Bill Rodgers, Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins and David Owen – gather at Owen’s home in Limehouse. The Labour Party, under the leadership of Michael Foot, is self-destructing and “the Gang of Four” are desperate to find a political alternative able to beat Thatcher, even if […]
REVIEW: FOUR THIEVES’ VINEGAR (Baron’s Court Theatre) ★★★★
It was 1665, the year of the Great Plague. A time when as many as a thousand people a day were dying in the streets of London. Matthias Richards paces his lonely cell in Newgate Prison. An invisible, tuneless drum, beats at a slow heartbeat pace. Matthias is a man of science and he believes […]
REVIEW: The Significant Other Festival: Conditions (The Vaults) ★★★★
‘Significant Other’ is a now-familiar clunky term usually signifying one’s ‘better half’. Exploring this as a theme in its sixth year the Pensive Federation’s “Significant Other Festival” presents a very specific challenge to those involved. The schedule is intense: ten writers, ten days, to produce ten ten-minute plays. This year the festival is a sort […]
REVIEW: SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES (Above The Stag Theatre) ★★★★
Southern Baptist Sissies is a story of growing up gay in bible belt America, where, to this day, being gay is still considered an illness to many people. Four young boys, Mark, Andrew, TJ and Benny, all attend the same Baptist Church but as the boys hit puberty, they start to realise they have un-christian […]
REVIEW: FRANKENSTEIN (Wilton’s Music Hall) ★★★★★
Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated tales in the world of British literature, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has suffered injustice after green-skinned, square-headed injustice in the two hundred years since it was first penned. The vast majority of adaptations of this Gothic classic cast Frankenstein’s creature as a dim-witted and hostile being, intent on causing harm […]
REVIEW: THE MONKEY (Theatre 503) ★★★★
The Monkey is a dark comedy featuring four characters each of whom are habitual small time London criminals and heroine addicts. These are not addicts as normally portrayed. They do not live in squalor exactly and are quite content with their lot. They manage to steal and deal enough to live relatively comfortably. Think Friends […]