OPERATION MINCEMEAT at London’s Fortune Theatre ★★★★★ – “British theatre at its finest”
If Victoria Wood and Eric Idle wrote a musical about World War Two, in the style of Hamilton – you’d be somewhere in the region of Operation Mincemeat. I first became aware of this show in 2019 when it was reviewed for me at the New Diorama Theatre. It went on to be shortlisted for […]
WILD ABOUT YOU ‘a new musical in concert’ ★★★
Wild About You is billed as ‘a new musical in concert’ – two nights of huge names, performing Broadway star Chilina Kennedy’s newest offering, based on a book by Eric Holmes. Previously workshopped with titles ‘Without Her’ and ‘Call it Love’, this latest title is based on the name of one of the songs. However, […]
RED PITCH @Sohoplace “a touching piece of new British theatre not to be missed” ★★★★
Red Pitch is a new piece of British Theatre written by Tyrell Williams. Originally performed at the Bush Theatre in February 2022, the production received the George Devine Award, Best New Play at the Off West End Awards, with Tyrell Williams named Best Writer at the Stage Debut Awards, and awarded the Evening Standard Theatre […]
Police Cops: The Musical at Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★
After highly successful runs at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Southwark Playhouse in 2023, Police Cops: The Musical is back. Promising to be bigger and better than ever, the all singing, all dancing, all guns blazing Police Cops returns to Southwark Playhouse and London audiences can return to the “US 80s” with more madness, […]
Standing at the Sky’s Edge at the Gillian Lynne Theatre ★★★★★ “a spectacular example of new British musical theatre”
Standing at the Sky’s Edge is a brand new British musical with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley and a book by Chris Bush. Named after the title track of Hawley’s 2012 album, the musical premiered at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on 14th March 2019 and returned for a second season in 2021, selling […]
Cable Street at Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★ “as powerful today as it was in 1936”
Cable Street is a new musical written by composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin (Unfortunate: the Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch) and playwright Alex Kanefsky (Artistic Director of Paper Balloon Theatre). Currently playing it’s world premiere at Southwark Playhouse Borough, Cable Street is a topical and electrifying reimagining of one of London’s most momentous days – […]
The Addams Family in Concert ★★★★
Based on the original single-panel gag cartoons, The Addams Family has music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show opened on Broadway in 2010 just blocks away from the Addams Family mansion located in Central Park. An instant hit, the show won several awards before touring […]
Till The Stars Come Down at the National Theatre ★★★★★
Following a working class Midlands family on a wedding day, Beth Steel’s tragic yet hilarious new play touches on the strains of love, heartache, xenophobia, lies and far, far too much alcohol. Till the Stars Come Down focuses on the relationship between three sisters – excited bride Sylvia (Sinéad Matthews), mouthy but confident Maggie (Lisa […]
The King and I at Dominion Theatre ★★★★★ – “be wrapped up in the glitz of this beautiful production”
Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s masterpiece The King and I is based on Margaret Landon’s 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam and the real memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. Premiering on Broadway in 1951, The King and I starred Broadway veteran Gertrude Lawrence […]
I Should Be So Lucky at the New Wimbledon Theatre – “Mamma Mia! On Crack!” ★★★★★
I Should Be So Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky! When Ella is left jilted at the altar by fiancé Nathan, her friends do what any good pals would do and try to raise her spirits. And with a honeymoon to Turkey already paid for, there’s only one thing to do. Pack! The wedding may be off, […]