REVIEW: WHITE CHRISTMAS THE MUSICAL (Dominion Theatre) ★★★
Based on the much-loved 1954 festive film, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas The Musical premiered in 2000 at the 11,000 capacity amphitheatre The Muny in St Louis. Featuring a book by David Ives and Paul Blake the musical is a celebration of Irving Berlin’s songbook and it’s ear-worm title song White Christmas. Featuring choreography from renowned […]
REVIEW: Penetrator (Lion & Unicorn Theatre) ★★★★★
We meet Max (Luke Willats) sitting on an uncomfortable-looking couch in his living room – littered with takeaway boxes, empty cans of booze, and a clothes horse full of greying undies – entertaining himself with some aggressive porn. Flatmate Alan (Paul Linghorn) interrupts his activities and the pair embark on an evening of drugs, reminiscing […]
REVIEW: 65TH EVENING STANDARD THEATRE AWARDS 2019 (London Coliseum)
As the Christmas lights sparkled and twinkled on St Martins Lane, the cream of the British Theatre industry gathered to sparkle and twinkle themselves at the London Coliseum for the 65th Evening Standard awards. Joined by some screen royalty this was a glitzy evening in the capitol. The event was hosted by Evgeny Lebedev, the […]
REVIEW: The Girl on the Train (Winter Gardens, Blackpool) ★★★
The Girl on the Train is a play that centres around Rachel Watson (Samantha Womack); a lonely divorcee and alcoholic. On her train commute to work, she observes the house where her ex-husband, Tom (Adam Jackson Smith) with his new wife Anna (Lowenna Melrose) and their baby live. She notices a couple who live a few […]
REVIEW: & JULIET (Shaftesbury Theatre) ★★★★
& Juliet tells the story of what may have happened had Juliet not died on that fateful night in Verona. Narrated from the view point of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway who is concerned that all his plays end in tragedy so suggests an alternative happy ending which she also writes herself into. […]
REVIEW: Frankenstein (Richmond Theatre) ★★★
Having recently very successfully adapted the epic Greek tale Captain Corelli’s Mandolin for the stage, Rona Munro has now taken the more famous Mary Shelley gothic story (written in 1818) Frankenstein to the stage, for an extensive UK tour. Her take on one of the original horror stories is imaginative and interesting as she examines […]
REVIEW: FUNNY GIRL (Théâtre Marigny, Paris) ★★★★★
Stephen Mear directs and choreographs a new production of the Barbra Striesand classic Funny Girl in Paris this winter, starring actress Christina Bianco, who truly is the greatest star. Funny Girl tells the story of Fanny Brice – the girl who wants to be a star but is repeatedly told she doesn’t have the right […]
REVIEW: DEAR EVAN HANSEN (Noel Coward Theatre) ★★★★
During a snowy blizzard in 2017, I went to see Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway, with the original cast including Ben Platt and it was so emotional and wonderful that I couldn’t wait for it to come to the West End. And now, finally it is here at the Noel Coward Theatre. Dear Evan Hansen […]
REVIEW: STRAY DOGS (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Producers Dead Letter Perfect say they want to produce “good stories, well told” and that character “lies at the heart of good stories”. Their latest offering at Park 90, Stray Dogs, certainly fits that description with three very strong conflicting characters battling it out over the power of language. The story is set in Leningrad, around […]
REVIEW: The Bodyguard (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
The Bodyguard quite literally arrived in Sunderland with a bang!!! Based on the 1992 film, starring the late Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard tells the story of Rachel Marron, a famous singer who has uncompromising ex-secret service agent, Frank Farmer, hired for her to protect her from an obsessed stalker. Unlike the film, this is a […]