42nd Street
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Currently tap dancing around the UK is the 1930’s based musical 42nd Street. In the show we meet Peggy Sawyer (Jessica Punch). She is young, bright eyed and ready to take on the world when she arrives in New York to audition for the show Pretty Lady. Stud muffin Billy Lawlor (James […]
REVIEW: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Her Majesty’s Theatre)
The famous chandelier that crashes onto the stage, seems to hit the floor with caution. I guess they want to make sure it doesn’t really break! Last week, 4 new people joined the principle cast of Phantom Of The Opera at London’s Her Majesty’s Theatre. Marcus Lovett (The Phantom), Simon Thomas (Raoul), Lara Martins (Carlotta) […]
Rent
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Rent is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La bohème and tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Dying in America at the end […]
Up 4 A Meet
Wilma’s Rating: [rating=3] The Waterloo East Theatre is compactly situated under Waterloo East station. The smell of damp is something you choose to ignore and the £3 wine helps! Up 4 A Meet is an adult comedy, telling the story of three gay men, who spend their lives on an online dating website. In the […]
Jumpy
Wilmas Rating [rating=3] Duke of Yorks Theatre Thursday 16 Aug – Saturday 3 Nov 2012 Written by April De Angelis Directed by Nina Raine Starring Tamsin Greig I had read so many great reviews of this show, I was excited to be going to see […]
13
[rating=5] If you’ve ever been 13 then you will be able to relate to this show. It is a hilarious reminder of how hard it is growing up. In the story we meet Evan Goldman who’s parents have split up as his dad ran off with an air hostess. His mum decides to move them […]
Il Tabarro at the Arcola Theatre – Grimeborn Festival
Opening the 2012 Grimeborn Festival was Il Tabarro, a Giacomo Puccini Opera beautifully directed by Aylin Bozok.The story is set on a barge, cleverly visualised by surtitles that rock slowly as if giving the effect of the boat rocking. Michele and Giorgetta, run the barge as husband and wife but one day things go too far […]
Vieux Carre
Wilma’s rating: [rating=5] Where: Charing Cross Theatre, Villers Street, WC2N 6NL How much: £16.00-£19.50 When: Wednesday-Saturday’s 7.30pm until 1st September Book now: www.charingcrosstheatre.co.uk When I first saw this show back in the Kings Head Theatre, Islington I was captivated by the intensity of it. So when it announced it was transferring into the West […]
Listening
Wilma’s rating: [rating=5] Where: Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden When: Until 18th August How much: £10 Proceeds from this show are going to the Red Cross charity. When a suicide bomber detonated a bomb on a busy Tube on July 7th 2005, 35 people died. Listening is a graphic 75 minute, one woman […]
We Won't Shoot Ourselves
Wilma’s Rating: [rating=2] Where: Kings Head Theatre, 115 Upper Street, London N1 1QN How Much: £12.00 How long: 1hr (no interval) Running until: 13th August 2012 We Won’t Shoot Ourselves was fine. A terribly bland word to use but I think it’s the best word I can use to describe it. It wasn’t bad […]