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 […]
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 […]