The Return of the Soldier
Aria Entertainment and Guy James in association with Penny Rock Theatre Productions and Jermyn Street Theatre have brought a musical adaption of Rebecca West’s 1918 novel to the stage with music by Charles Miller and Book and Lyrics by Tim Sanders. Stewart Clarke (Ghost/Loserville) plays Christopher Baldry, the soldier sent back from war […]
Guys and Dolls
GUYS AND DOLLS, the 1950’s musical comedy with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, won 5 Tony Awards during its original production including best musical and also spawned the 1955 awards winning movie musical starring Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. The classic tale involves a collection of […]
The Dreaming
The Union Theatre is a small fringe theatre with very intimate spacing that is situated in the heart of Southwark. The theatre itself has reputation for staging high-quality musicals in its tiny studio space, examples such as a very successful run of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta season. In spite of all this it has recently […]
Troilus and Cressida
Entering the Tristan Bates Theatre for Lazarus Theatre Company’s powerful adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida is a daunting experience. Everything appears hazy as smoke is pumped into the theatre, but gradually you see the balloons scattered across the stage, the table laid out for a birthday party and the soundtrack of drums beating creates […]
Autobahn
American company Savio(u)r productions have brought Autobahn, a collection of seven short plays by Neil LaBute (who’s play In A Forest Dark and Deep played at the Vaudeville Theatre in 2011), to London’s Kings Head Theatre in Islington. I’ve always loved the Kings Head. There is something about having a tiny venue in […]
Avenue Q (New Wimbledon Theatre) 2014 ★★★★
After two successful West End runs and several UK tours, Avenue Q is back touring the UK and I caught the show at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London. Avenue Q is a street on the poorer side of New York whose inhabitants all feel a little down on their luck. The story centres around […]
See Rock City & Other Destinations
America is a huge country and even if you decide to journey across it you might fail to notice the people within this vast land. See Rock City (and – apparently – Other Destinations) considers the non-tourists at these destinations and why they might be there. A drifter (Alex Lodge) and a waitress he picked […]
The Sequel
The London Welsh Centre houses Untouched Theatre’s adaptation of The Sequel, by Percival Wilde, as part of the Camden Fringe this month. The premise of The Sequel, we are told by the narrator, is to look at what happens after the traditional love story ends. And so we join newly engaged Prince Henry and Princess […]
The Philippine Dream
In Manlia (The Philippines) the Tuloy Foundation helps keep abandoned, abused and lost orphans off of the streets and raises them in a safe environment. Mamma Mia star Katy Osborne was so inspired by her trip to Manlia that she organised The Philippine Dream, a one night cabaret show at the Leicester Square Theatre to […]
REVIEW: Top Hat at New Wimbledon Theatre (2014)
Kicking off it’s UK tour in Wimbledon is Irving Berlins 1935 musical Top Hat (which originally starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers in their most successful film together). In 2011, the hit film was adapted for the West End stage and after a brief UK tour, opened at London’s Aldwych Theatre starring Summer Strallen and […]