REVIEW: PANDORA (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
Two characters, each with their own story. Stories that connect in an unexpected way A lone handsome black woman (played by the excellent Packsie Vernon) stands alone, dreamily playing the electric guitar and singing a beautiful, meandering song. She claims to be Hera, the wife of the God Zeus, who has come down to earth […]
REVIEW: FORTY SHADES OF STRAWBERRY BLOND (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★
The phrase ‘One Man Show’ can strike fear into the hearts of many, however Paul Carroll’s ‘Forty Shades of Strawberry Blond’, at the Leicester Square Theatre left me pleasantly surprised. In his hour long show, Carroll switches from one character to another at break neck speed, the next even sillier and more obscure than the […]
REVIEW: THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY (Criterion Theatre) ★★★★★
Genius. That is The Comedy About a Bank Robbery in one word. It is slick, intelligent and unimaginably funny. I worried that The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre would be a copy cat sequel of The Play That Goes Wrong (also written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayers and Henry Sheilds), but while […]
REVIEW: THE WITCH’S MARK (Vaults Festival) ★★★
Scottish playwright brings eerie play The Witch’s Mark to the Vaults Theatre Festival The Witch’s Mark is Scottish playwright Timothy N. Evers‘s latest piece, being show as part of the Vaults Festival in London. The creepy chamber setting and smell of cold stone is perfect for an eerie play about witch trials. Set the night […]
REVIEW: Five Little Monkeys (Little Angel Studio) ★★★★
Baby Panda Theatre bring Five Little Monkeys to life at the Little Angel Theatre The popular counting song, Five Little Monkeys, is brought to life by Baby Panda Theatre at Little Angel Studio. The team that created Dogs Don’t Do Ballet for Little Angel Theatre present their latest production, a show full of puppets, songs […]
REVIEW: THE BACON KILLER (Theatre Utopia) ★★★
Set in a New York Police Department precinct house in the 1980’s, two intrepid murder squad police officers, Dick Whittington and Kimberly, are on the hunt for a dangerous cop killer. The play is full of eighties US cop show bon ami and buddy buddy movie banter. It is a fast paced Starsky and Hutch for […]
REVIEW: CONSTELLATIONS (Bread and Roses Theatre) ★★
Constellations is a phenomenal play and having missed it in the West End, I have been desperate to see a staged production for a while. However, there is perhaps a reason as to why it is performed so infrequently, as it needs to be cast perfectly or it may perhaps be set up to fail. […]
REVIEW: THE SOUND OF MURDER (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
I love a play with a twisted murder plot, and that is just what William Fairchild’s The Sound of Murder delivers. Obviously, I can’t give anything away, however the key to this plot is a dictating machine used by highly successful children’s author Charles Norbury, who as a successful tiny tots’ favourite author in reality […]
REVIEW: WICKED still flying high at the Apollo Victoria Theatre ★★★★★
Long serving Wicked cast members Willemijn Verkaik and Sue Kelvin return to the Apollo Victoria Theatre Wicked celebrated it’s tenth year in London’s West End back in September 2016 with a special 10th Anniversary cast joining the show for the months around the celebration. Long serving Elphaba Rachel Tucker returned to the show, Australia and […]
REVIEW: LIZZIE (Greenwich Theatre) ★★★★★
The Greenwich Theatre brings Sex, Axe and Rock ‘n’ Roll to the stage The last couple of years in London have seen some wonderful musical productions such as Dreamgirls, Groundhog Day and Funny Girl, but this Lizzie is absolutely brilliant, fantastic right up there with the best of them. This is a rock opera, as […]