Songs For A New World – St James Theatre
I was almost giddy to see the 20th Anniversary of Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle, Songs For A New World on Friday night. The St. James’ Theatre was buzzing, and it couldn’t have been a more perfect venue for this stunning 4 cast show, featuring Cynthia Erivo (Woman 1), Jenna Russell (Woman 2), Damian Humbley (Man 2) […]
Boys of the Barricade – Charing Cross Theatre
Boys of the Barricade is a group of West End performers who have all, at one time or another, starred in the hit musical Les Miserables. From ‘town’ to ‘tour’ and even in the recent film adaption, these boys have done it all. Now, they have formed a group, performing well loved musical theatre numbers […]
The Spitfire Grill – Union Theatre
Spitfire Grill started life as a 1996 film and was then turned into a musical, running off-Broadway in 2001. It tells the story of Percy, a young woman recently released from Prison who makes her way to the rural American town of Gilead, Wisconsin after seeing a picture of it in a magazine. Her parol […]
The Bald Prima Donna – Upstairs At The Gatehouse
Eugene Ionesco’s works are seldom on in the capital unfortunately. The Bald Prima Donna, is his earliest work and Slip of The Lip present this quirky and fun piece of theatrical absurdity with a minimalistic set and Ionesco’s nonsensical dialogue flowing thick and fast. The Martin’s have popped over to the Smith’s who live in […]
American Idiot – Arts Theatre
Having sold over 75 million albums worldwide, Punk/Rock band Green Day have been the soundtrack to several generations of teenagers lives from 1986 up until today. Their 2004 concept album American Idiot dealt with post 9/11 issues and became one of their most popular, mainstream albums. In 2010 the album was used as the basis […]
Memphis – starring Matt Cardle
Matt Cardle, winner of X Factor 2010 was not an obvious choice to replace the current king of the West End Killian Donelly (who has left to join the original London cast of Kinky Boots) as Huey Calhoun in Memphis the Musical, alongside queen of soul Beverley Knight. Always happy to watch this […]
Miss Hope Springs – Hippodrome Casino
Miss Hope Springs has been entertaining the Sunday night crowds of the Hippodrome Casino with her own songs, for the past six months after a previous two year residency at The Crazy Coqs. Miss Hope Springs is the alter-ego of Ty Jeffries (son of actor/director Lionel Jeffries), a previous top fashion model. Hope is a […]
Secrets of Stage Success
Musical Theatre performers Louise Dearman and Mark Evans found themselves being asked so many questions by wannabe performers that they decided to launch a website where fans could submit their questions to them. These have now been put together into a handy little book which is a must have for anyone in theatre training or […]
Positive – Park Theatre
About ten seconds after this show started I had a moment of déjà vu and realised I had seen it before at Waterloo East Theatre. Upon scrolling through the credits I realised my memory was so easily jogged because 4 of the 6 performers in this show were also in the original cast. Now at […]
Sincerely Yours – Landor Theatre
Sincerely Yours is playing at the Landor Theatre in Clapham from 15-19th July 2015 and is part of The Landor Theatre Fringe season running from 15th July – 2nd August. Sincerely Yours is a heart warming wartime musical drama focusing on a troupe of entertainers experiencing ‘love, loss and the dawning of a new age’. […]