The Actors Nightmare
The Actors Nightmare is a swift 30 minute play being showcased at the Phoneix Artists Club this month as part of the Camden Fringe Festival. George is an accountant (or so he believes) who is thrust onto the stage at the beginning of a play. He has no idea what play he is in or […]
Let It Be
Let It Be is a tribute show to the legendary Beatles. The 1960’s pop group from Liverpool that became a craze across the world with young girls. If you didn’t get a chance to see them perform live all those years ago then you can head down to the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End […]
Dogfight
The Southwark Playhouse houses another great show with Dogfight – one of the most anticipated new musicals to come to London this year. Based on the 1991 film starring River Phoenix, it tells the story of a group of marines about to go off to war in Vietnam. For their final night of frivolity the boys […]
Seth Rudetsky
The plush Leicester Square Theatre exudes a warm atmosphere by having their bars adjacent to the seats in the semi-circular auditorium. The stage itself illuminated by deep purple lights reflecting off of the piano creating a very aloof ambiance before beginning the show. Seth Rudetsky is an American pit pianist, composer of musicals and radio […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
When I heard that the new UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was headed to my old home town of Southend on Sea, I decided to take a trip to the beach and check it out. Joseph, the youngest of eleven sons is his fathers favourite. He gives him a coat of […]
Streetcar Named Desire
Streetcar Named Desire is probably one of Tennessee Williams most admired plays. It centres around an apparently wealthy woman Blanche DuBois who goes to live with her sister Stella after the family home is lost. Her working class sister (played by Vanessa Kirby) and hot-tempered husband Stanley (played by Bon Foster) live in a small […]
Thérése Raquin
Good Lord! Will the Park Theatre ever stage a bad show? If the latest offering of Theatre Bench’s new adaptation of Emile Zola’s turn-of-the-century classic, Thérése Raquin is anything to go by, probably not. A dark and pulsating musical set in Victorian Paris, the show follows the repressed Thérése as she breaks out from her […]
Hetty Feather
The stage adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s favourite of the 100 books she has written, is a story of female empowerment and independence. Hetty Feather is a girl who stands up for what she believes in. A poor orphan in Victorian England, who’s mother gives her up to the Foundling Hospital in hope she will have […]
Epstein: the Man Who Made the Beatles
How to say something new about the Beatles legend? In 1974 Willy Russell fantasised about a reunion with the delightfully quirky John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert; Backbeat (2011) focused on the band’s early years in Hamburg, while not 500 yards from where this show is playing Let It Be churns out the hits for […]
Grim
Grim: a New Musical is the love story to die for. It’s about the Grim Reaper falling in love with Cupid but she cannot be with him because if she’s with him, she’ll kill him. It’s a story about the angel of death falling for the angel of love, the collision of the two most […]