Constellations – Trafalgar Studios
Constellations first came to the West End as part of a Royal Court season at the Duke of Yorks Theatre in 2012 (following shows Posh and Jumpy) starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall. This year it has a stint on Broadway with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson and is now wrapping up a UK Tour […]
What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined – Menier Chocolate Factory
What The World Needs Now, Always Something There To Remind Me, A House Is Not A Home, One Less Bell To Answer; Burt Bacharach is the man behind some of the most timeless music, and the centerpiece for this show. What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined rediscovers some of the greatest songs in music history […]
The Mentalists – Wyndhams Theatre
The Mentalists is a comedy play written by Richard Bean and starring creator of popular TV show The Office, Stephen Merchant. Richard Bean is a popular playwright these days having written the successful One Man Two Guvnors and the recent phone-hacking scandal play Great Britain. The Mentalists however doesn’t live up to these other productions […]
I Sing! – Drayton Arms Theatre
I Sing! is the 1999 musical comedy set in New York. It made it’s off-Broadway debut in 2001 and is now having its UK premiere at the Drayton Arms Theatre in London, for just five nights. The show tells the story of five youngsters, whose lives become intertwined. The happy couple, Nicky and Heidi, their recently […]
The King of Tiny Things – Udderbelly Festival
Little kings, queens and tiny things will have a great time watching The King of Tiny Things, a theatrical adaptation of the book from author Jeanne Willis by Metta Theatre and director Poppy Burton-Morgan. Older children and adults, meanwhile, may not be so easily impressed. Catering for both audiences is always a challenge and this […]
War Horse – New London Theatre
The New London Theatre is one of the West End’s newer theatres, having opened in 1973. From 1981-2002 it was home to one of Andrew Lloyd Webbers biggest successes, Cats the Musical. For the past six years the National Theatre production of War Horse has been galloping across the stage every night and I went […]
The Dreamers – St James Theatre
This new musical transfers from Tunbridge Wells after impressing St. James theatre creative Director Robert Mackintosh so much that he offered them the week long slot. I attended on a charity gala performance and was joined in the audience by many ex-service personnel and even some Chelsea pensioners. The musical written by James Beeny and […]
Dear Lupin
Dear Lupin is a hilarious, yet touching collection of letters that racing journalist Roger Mortimer wrote to his son, Charlie, over the space of 25 years, up until his final letter before he died in 1991. Rogers letters are hilarious. Complaining constantly about his nagging wife, the boring dinner parties he has had […]
Flick and Julie: Pop Up Penny Pinchers – Leicester Square Theatre (Lounge)
Flick and Julie are a comedy duo who rose to fame with the YouTube video ‘Shopping In Lidl’, set to the tune of ‘Walking In Memphis’ which had over 1.3million views back in 2013. Now, ahead of their shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the pop-up penny pinchers are playing at the Leicester Square Theatre […]
Sibling Revelry – London Hippodrome
It’s been 17 years since Ann Hampton Callaway and her sister Liz Callaway brought their Sibling Revelry show over from New York as part of the Divas at the Donmar season at the Donmar Warehouse. Now they return to London after various solo appearances over the past few years, but this time, they return together. […]