REVIEW: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Apollo Theatre) ★★★★
As the audience jostles to find their seats in the auditorium of the Apollo Theatre (on the 2nd birthday performance of the show that everybody’s talking about), the chatter and laughter is cut short as a tall figure enters the room – a shock of white-blond hair and a figure hugging dress of teal. The inspiration […]
REVIEW: The Match Box (Omnibus Theatre) ★★★★
Frank McGuinness’ tale of grief and revenge is revived at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham. James O’Donnell directs Angela Marray in this one-woman, two-act play, that is heavy on the emotion but funny enough to keep an audience engaged. Marray plays Sal, a middle-aged English woman of Irish decent, who has moved to rural Ireland […]
REVIEW: REPUTATION (The Other Palace) ★★
It is always exciting to see a new musical in development and be asked to form a view on whether it is ready for a full staging in the West End or on Broadway. It is a long journey from conception, to draft script and score, workshop try-outs to selected guests and then onto a […]
REVIEW: Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival at Sea ★★★★★
For the second year, Floating Festivals held Stages – The Musical Theatre Festival at Sea , for four days and nights onboard a Royal Caribbean cruise liner. We were delighted to be invited back on board for the second year, after we had such a ball last year (that’s not a Michael Ball pun although he […]
REVIEW: Les Miserables The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★
This week I was in London, preparing for the West End Wilma Awards but I couldn’t miss my chance to finally catch Les Miserables The Staged Concert (currently playing at the Gielgud Theatre whilst the Queens Theatre is being refurbished when a new production of the show will open the theatre under the new name […]
REVIEW: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Curve, Leicester) ★★★★★
Directed by Ian Talbot, Priscilla Queen of the Desert is a celebration of all things drag, camp and fabulous. It tells the story of a road trip like no other – as three drag queens hop aboard a glittery pink bus and venture across Australia, only to discover new found friendships and relationships, and a […]
REVIEW: The Antipodes (National Theatre) ★★★
Award winning Annie Baker returns to the National Theatre for the third time and co-directs her latest work about the importance of storytelling. As previously Baker’s set up is to have characters interacting without any particular purpose, although Antipodes lacks the darkness of her last play at the National, John. Sandy (Coneth Hill) gathers a […]
REVIEW: High Fidelity (Turbine Theatre) ★★★★★
High Fidelity is only the 2nd production and first musical staged at the new Turbine Theatre and it is utterly brilliant! The theatre has been set up by Paul Taylor-Mills who is the artistic director. Taylor-Mills in his previous role at The Other Palace was responsible for staging the fabulous Heathers the Musical. With High […]
REVIEW: As You Like It (Barbican) ★★★
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s newest season at their London home, the Barbican, encompasses The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, and is now being kicked off with Kimberley Syke’s As You Like It. Orlando (David Ajao) first sets eyes on Rosalind (Lucy Phelps) when he wrestles for his fortune. They immediately fall head over […]
REVIEW: Soho Cinders (Charring Cross Theatre) ★★★★
With the festive season racing toward us, faster than a toddler to an advent calendar, its right to assume there are some amongst us who would sooner rinse the last dregs of the summer sangria and mourn the sun whilst watching ‘I’m a Celeb’ than sit through a musical retelling of ‘Cinderella’. But fear not, […]