REVIEW: CURTAINS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★★
Who doesn’t love a whodunnit? Whoever says they don’t is clearly lying. Nobody, I repeat, nobody is above a well-written Christie-esque whodunnit. Who doesn’t want to get to know each of the characters and trust absolutely none of them, whilst trying to be a super-sleuth and notice the red herrings and carefully dotted clues? We […]
REVIEW: Rags (Park Theatre) ★★★
The stories of the immigrant experience into America in the early 20th century have been well mined by the film industry, but less so in the theatre. Rags presents the story of Rebecca, a Russian Jew, who has fled to America with her young son, David, after the death of her husband and it follows […]
REVIEW: ONCE (Fairfield Halls) ★★★
A new touring production of the hit musical ‘Once’ brings an experienced leading pair to sing their way through this tale of Irish culture and unrequited love that is sure to repeat the success of previous versions. The recently refurbished Fairfield Halls hosts the first leg of this UK tour of the musical, based on […]
REVIEW: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★★
Greetings Readers! This week I made my way on a dark and dismal night to Woking and the New Victoria Theatre to review Peter Pan Goes Wrong. We hadn’t even settled into our seats before the “director” Chris Bean (played by Tom Babbage), walked into the stalls and passed over the audiences heads a very […]
REVIEW: MAGIC GOES WRONG (Vaudeville Theatre) ★★★★
Somewhere, deep in the West End Wilma vaults, lies my review of Mischief Theatre’s The Play That Goes Wrong from when it premiered in the small space above the Old Red Lion. I absolutely loved it then and so it’s been a huge pleasure to enjoy the company’s success story over the seven years since; […]
REVIEW: The King and I (Wales Millennium Centre) ★★★★
After a Tony-Award winning run on Broadway in 2016, and a highly celebrated summer at the London Palladium in 2018, the Lincoln Centre Theatre’s production of The King and I has arrived in Cardiff, as part of its International Tour. This classic American musical written by Rodgers & Hammerstein features hits such as ‘I Whistle […]
REVIEW: CATS (THE MOVIE) ★
Director Tom Hooper (who also directed the 2012 film Les Miserables) said at the 16 December world premiere of Cats the movie that he had finished it “at 8am the previous day after 36 hours in a row”. And it certainly shows. Despite a revised version of the film being released to cinemas (which is […]
REVIEW: Circus 1903 (Southbank Centre) ★★★★
Circus 1903 returns for a limited Christmas run to the Southbank Centre Royal Festival Hall with brand new acts: The Russian duo aerial act The Flying Fredonis, Cuban balancer The Great Rokardy, as well as Russian Rolling Ball and Hula Hoop artist Mademoiselle Natalia – and last but not certainly not least, the Magnificent Marvellos with […]
REVIEW: Billionaire Boy (Bloomsbury Theatre) ★★★
Birmingham Stage Company’s production of Billionaire Boy comes to Bloomsbury Theatre for the Christmas holidays as part of its UK tour to November 2020. Joe Spud is Billionaire Boy, a twelve year old whose father had made his fortune in toilet paper, making him the richest boy in the country. While he has all the […]
REVIEW: CURTAINS (Wyndham’s Theatre) ★★★
With songs written by Kander and Ebb, the duo behind Cabaret and Chicago, one could be forgiven for assuming that Curtains would follow in the success of its predecessors. Sadly, it seems this musical whodunnit, although enjoyable, seems to just miss the mark. The audience are told the story of a musical which has just […]