REVIEW: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Liverpool Empire) ★★★
Despite its thoroughly modern title, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a good old-fashioned throw back to a simpler time in musical theatre, with a feel of Singin’ In The Rain and 42nd Street. Set in 1922, Millie Dillmount leaves her small town home in Kansas for the Big Apple on her quest to become a modern […]
REVIEW: THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT (The Vaults) ★★★★★
Adam Scott-Rawley has a great body. This is the observation of my companion while we wait for This Is Not Culturally Significant to begin. We’re actually trying to avoid looking at his body, as he stands naked and unashamed onstage, but we’re also attempting to appear cool and unembarrassed so we can’t avert our gaze […]
REVIEW: CORNWALL VS CHINA (The Vaults) ★★
Cornwall vs China is written by Daniel Hallissey and directed by Danny Wainwright. Their previous collaboration, Dracula had five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, followed by a successful transfer to the King’s Head Theatre in London. They’re hoping to follow that with a comedy set in a world where Cornwall has voted to […]
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 […]