REVIEW: AMELIE THE MUSICAL (The Other Palace) ★★★★
Amelie is a charming musical which occasionally veers into being overly saccharine before being dragged back on track by truly bonkers moments. Based on the 2001 film of the same name, Amelie is the story of a young woman living in Paris who works as a waitress in a café on Montmartre the site of […]
REVIEW: Dick Whittington and His Cat (Hackney Empire) ★★★★
Hackney Empire has long been famous for its pantomimes, combining British tradition with diversity. Dick Whittington and His Cat continues this custom, taking the traditional tale of Dick Whittington and updating and combining it with real events. It tells the story of a young immigrant aboard the Empire Windrush arriving in post-war London in 1948 […]
REVIEW: Shit-Faced Showtime: A Pissedmas Carol (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★
The time has come for another work of chaos in the Shit-Faced Showtime series, and on this occasion they’re tackling a British institution: A Christmas Carol. The premise is delightfully simple and there’s a clue in the title: a small cluster of performers shorten a classic story to fit into an hour, but with an […]
REVIEW: JAGGED LITTLE PILL (Broadhurst Theatre) ★★★
When Alanis Morissette released the album Jagged Little Pill in 1995, her deeply personal lyrics touched a raw never with millions of people around the world and catapulted Alanis into super stardom over night. With her ninth album due next year and an extensive 25th anniversary tour planned, there is just time to open Jagged […]
REVIEW: Superstar (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
Nicola Wren’s one-woman autobiographical show, draws on her life as her family’s mistake – the fifth and final child, conceived by accident and sent on a never-ending quest to gain her older siblings approval. This could easily have been self-indulgent but is in fact clever, sharply observed and a side-splittingly funny. After a successful run […]
REVIEW: The Greatest Play in the History of the World (Trafalgar Studios 2) ★★★★★
You are always guaranteed an interesting evening at Trafalgar Studios 2, the tiny space below the main theatre. I have seen a fair number of one person shows and small plays here. The Greatest Play in the History of the World falls somewhere between the two, not quite a one woman show (even though it […]
REVIEW: The Murdér Express ★★★
All aboard! No murder has yet been committed at the Murdér Express – whereas the food is to die for (well, almost – let me have my pun). Underneath the arch where Pedley Street station used to be is now a portal that transports all who-dare-enter back to the 1920s. A dapper ticket booth operator greets […]
REVIEW: West Side Story (Curve) ★★★★
Nikolai Foster delivers once again with Curve’s Christmas performance of West Side Story. This musical phenomenon, inspired by Shakespeare’s iconic Romeo and Juliet, is now approaching its sapphire anniversary at Curve. Regardless, the theatre’s take on this classic story is as raw and dynamic as it was the first day it opened. Equally fresh are […]
REVIEW: CINDERELLA (The Vaults) ★★★
It’s that time of year, another twelve months nearly over, Christmas coming soon. A time for Pantomime and office parties and what better way to celebrate than a lively Karaoke night at the local pub with your mates. And that is what is being served up in the Vaults at Waterloo. It’s the ‘Bridge Inn’ […]
REVIEW: MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (National Theatre) ★★★
The National Theatre‘s latest epic production is the two part adaption of Elena Ferranti‘s Neapolitan Novels which span 1952 to 2011 and follow the friendship of two very clever women Lenu Greco (played by Niamh Cusack) and Lila Cerullo (Catherine McCormack) fighting to find a path through a male dominated Italian landscape . April De […]