REVIEW: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (National Theatre, Lyttleton) ★★★
A legendary piece from a legendary writer, The Plough and the Stars is the third in the writer’s ‘Dublin trilogy and perhaps the bleakest, the play unwinds around a fractured Dublin beginning in November 1915 as people look towards a liberated Ireland culminating in the tragedies of the Easter risings of 1916, and the movement […]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD at London’s Palace Theatre
The hugely anticipated stage show of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD is harder to get a ticket to than Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Almost twelve months worth of tickets, sold out in a matter of hours when they were released earlier this year and this is expected to be repeated with 250,000 new tickets […]
REVIEW: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★★
Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s has seen many incarnations including plays, an un-aired television series and a short lived 1966 musical. Capote’s endearing characters and the beautiful film adaption, starring a young Audrey Hepburn, has inspired generations. Based on Capote’s masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning Finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg (Take Me Out, […]
REVIEW: Ladies in Waiting (Drayton Arms Theatre) ★★★★
Ladies In Waiting had a one night London preview at the Drayton Arms Theatre before its transfer to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The play has been written, workshopped, directed, and performed by graduates of East 15 Acting School. This play takes the idea of Henry VIII having to face each of his six wives, not […]
REVIEW: Coriolanus and Du Liniang (Peacock Theatre) ★★★★
400 years ago, William Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu died. Zheijiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera, an all-female company from Hongzhou City, presents two masterpieces of these two playwrights adapted by Shen Lin and Hu Xiaohai – Coriolanus and The Peony Pavilion – to create the new opera Coriolanus and Du Liniang, performed in London for the very […]
REVIEW: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Open Air Theatre) ★★★★
May we be blessed at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre to witness one of the boldest musical revivals you’ll see in London this year. The classic rock opera, retelling the last week of Jesus’ life, was last seen at the O2 Arena after the success of the TV talent show, ‘Superstar,’ to find the […]
REVIEW: BARBU (London Wonderground) ★★★★★
Barbu is, I daresay, the most fun night out in London right now. I would defy anyone to not have a raucous and riotous evening in the Spiegeltent at the London Wondergroud watching this joyful display of acrobatics and alternativeness. Hailing from Quebec, Circus Alfonse revels in its beards, its bendiness and its sheer unapologetic […]
REVIEW: STIG OF THE DUMP (Arts Theatre) ★★★★
Clive King’s novel, Stig of the Dump, was first published in the UK in 1963. Over fifty years later, the story remains a favourite with young readers. London Contemporary Theatre brings their production of Stig of the Dump to the Arts Theatre following a successful UK tour. The tale has been adapted by Olivier Award […]
REVIEW: STALKING THE BOGEYMAN (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
This play tells the true story of a man searching for his rapist. Based on an article that journalist David Holthouse published and later adapted for radio programme, This American Life in 2004, the play does not only address the trauma the young victim experienced after he was raped by a family friend but also […]
REVIEW: THE FIX (Union Theatre) ★★★★
‘Whatever it takes to win’ Now let me be honest, there is no prospect more exciting to a Musical Theatre graduate than an evening spent seeing a revival in a newly spruced up theatre. Atomicus Entertainment present The Fix at The Union Theatre provided the perfect opportunity to get my own “fix” of a brilliant, […]