An Audience With Jimmy Saville – Park Theatre
Jimmy Saville was one of Great Britains most well loved and honoured TV personalities. Hosting the BBC Music show Top of the Pops and his smash hit TV show Jim’ll Fix It, where children’s dreams were made realities live on air. Jimmy raised over £40 million for charity over the years and was seen as […]
Violence and Son – The Royal Court
Written by Gary Owen, Violence and Son is a new play being presented in the round at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at The Royal Court. The story centres on Liam, played by David Moorst, a teenage boy who after his mother’s untimely death finds himself living with his previously absent and loutish father, nicknamed Violence. […]
Teddy – Southwark Playhouse
British youth culture of the 1950s is not a theme that has been particularly explored to much extent by playwrights, but Tristan Bernays taps into it with riveting effect in this vibrant and superbly performed play with music. The setting is London’s Elephant and Castle in 1956 and Britain is in the grip of […]
The Legacy – Hope Theatre
Women have now had the vote for almost 100 years, yet still we fight an endless battle against inequality, chauvinism and society. For are we not still seen as creatures bound ultimately for motherhood? Flaunting ourselves to a world still dominated by men we are judged if we decide to have a career over a […]
Flight – Opera Holland Park
Investec Opera Holland Park is a summer opera company which produces an annual season of opera staged under a canopy in Holland Park, west London. Each season half a dozen operas are staged. Many are well known classics but the company has developed a reputation for producing more obscure works. This summer sees the first professional […]
The Elephant Man – Theatre Royal Haymarket
The 1980 film of The Elephant Man starred Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt and became a huge success with eight Oscar nominations after its release. The highly anticipated Broadway Transfer, starring Bradley Cooper has opened its doors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket to allow the crowds to come inside and see the freak show on […]
Sunday In The Arts – Above the Arts Theatre
Above The Arts Theatre is a quaint, homely, intimate space simply perfect for a cabaret. Hosted by the hilariously stagey Emma Ralston and Anthony Williamson who performed their own re-written musical songs and provided humour throughout the show. Straight from Britain’s Got Talent and a previous UK Tour of Hairspray playing Link Larkin was Luke […]
The Dirty Talk – Jermyn Street Theatre
In Michael Puzzo’s two-hander, Lino (Nicholas Hammond) and Mitch (James Sindell), two men of very different personalities, are stranded in a hunting lodge while a storm rages outside. The phone is dead, the car doesn’t work and they can’t even get the weather channel on TV to find out how long this situation […]
Theory of Relativity at The Drayton Arms Theatre
Down the road from the Royal Albert Hall, above the Drayton Arms pub, is a surprisingly huge fringe theatre venue. Audience members took their seat on denim jean upholstered benches facing 8 empty stools, waiting for what would be a 70 minute seamless song cycle called, ‘The Theory of Relativity’. Who knew science could couple […]
REVIEW: The Clockmakers Daughter (Landor Theatre) ★★★★
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, an original musical faerytale by Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn, is set in the fictional town of Spindlewood. When clockmaker Abraham’s wife dies, he creates a woman, Constance, out of clocks. As she comes to life, she becomes more and more real, learning to talk and sew and becomes more inquisitive about the […]