REVIEW: SUMMER NIGHTS IN SPACE (The Vaults) ★★★
Summer Nights In Space is a convivial, bright, jocular musical with original music and songs, though beware, Oklahoma this ain’t! Astronaut John Spartan has accomplished his lifelong ambition and made it into space, as Captain of Auxiliary Transport Shuttle 4. However, after three years with only the mechanical voice of the all pervading rocket ship’s […]
REVIEW: ROMEO AND JULIET (Theatro Technis) ★★
The exciting Acting Gymnasium, a weekly acting workshop, has arrived at the Theatro Technis with the immortal story of the star crossed lovers, but not as you have ever seen it before. This is a bang up to date version in look and voice. This does cause some contextual problems however. If you are speaking […]
REVIEW: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE (Sheffield Crucible Theatre) ★★★★★
Inspired by the BBC3 documentary ‘Drag queen at 16’, Everybody’s talking about Jamie takes a glimpse into the world of Jamie New, a 16 year old Sheffield lad with a desire for sequins and mascara rather than steel and soot. Charting Jamie’s progress from his first pair of heels to his appearance as the boy […]
REVIEW: MY LAND’S SHORE (Ye Olde Rose and Crown) ★★★★★
Passionate, relevant and heartbreaking. My Land’s Shore’s professional world premiere is a roaring success. Christopher J Orton’s score is gorgeous, and it is most definitely written for a Welsh voice, the sound pouring over the entire audience and blending beautifully. Although there were lots of standout solo performances, there is no doubting that the show […]
REVIEW: HOW (NOT) TO LIVE IN SUBURBIA (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
HOW (NOT) TO LIVE IN SUBURBIA tells the story of the lonely life of Annie Siddons. Annie is a writer and a single mum, living in suburban Twickenham, who wholeheartedly loves London but just not that particular area. Annie is pathologically lonely and longs to live in a more artistic London enclave. She also has two […]
REVIEW: Flew the Coop (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★
This playful and humorous show is presented by Lost Watch appearing as the RGASC (Rauchbach Greasley Association Society Club), a club that has been set up to ensure that two very special heroes of World War II are not forgotten – Horace Greasley and Rosa Rauchbach. The club consists of only five members who meet […]
REVIEW: LA RONDE (Bunker Theatre) ★★★
London, 2017. Gender and sexuality are fluid and free. It is possible to reinvent yourself with every new sexual encounter. Whatever you’re into, someone out there will be into you. Max Gill’s reworking of La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 classic which for the first 20 years of its life was deemed too explicit for a […]
REVIEW: TRAVESTIES (Apollo Theatre) ★★★
A play set in Zurich 1917 involving James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin surely sounds like a comedy waiting to be told?! Tom Stoppard’s Travesties finds a sense of joy in the most intellectual of conversation. Taking the role of narrator, Tom Hollander plays Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917 as he […]
REVIEW: THE WEDDING SINGER (Curve Leicester) ★★★★
The year is 1985. Think crimped hair, UV lights and bad wedding dresses. The Wedding Singer received a warm welcome from Curve Leicester last night as it prepares to embark on its nationwide tour. It promises to be a “hilarious musical based on the hit film”, and it certainly is just that. Having never seen […]
REVIEW: GLITTER PUNCH (Kings Head Theatre) ★★
After its short run at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, Lucy Burke’s ‘Glitter Punch’ a play that focuses on love, sex and the difference between the two makes a swift return to the Kings Head. The narrative focuses on the life of sixteen year old ‘Molly’ (Charlotte Salkind) who like any teenager yearns to escape […]