REVIEW: GREASE (Curve, Leicester) ★★★★
Director Nikolai Foster delivers once again with this fantastic, rambunctious performance of Grease, which takes the iconic film and drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st century. With harmonies that’ll give you goosebumps and tunes that’ll be stuck in your head for weeks, this is definitely a production to bring the whole family to. […]
REVIEW: APPROPRIATE (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★★★
Director Orla Ince delivers an absolute masterpiece with Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse – a beautifully rich piece of theatre that is a joy to watch. Written by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins the drama takes place over 2 days as the Lafayette siblings return to their father’s plantation house in Arkansas in the deep south of America. […]
REVIEW: THE SON (Duke Of York’s Theatre) ★★★★★
Writer Florian Zeller, and his regular translator Christopher Hampton, have become a modern-day powerhouse amongst playwrights. Following the extraordinary “Height of the Storm” about grief and loss and the spell binding “The Father” about dementia, they have taken another modern theme, mental health amongst teenagers and produced an utterly brilliant new play “The Son”. Transferring […]
REVIEW: THE BOOK OF MORMON (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★★
Written by the team behind South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with Avenue Q’s Robert Lopez, The Book Of Mormon says “Hello” to Sunderland Empire as part of its first UK tour. The Book of Mormon follows two contrasting young Mormon missionaries – the confident, self-absorbed Elder Price, and the bumbling, insecure Elder Cunningham […]
REVIEW: THRILLER LIVE (Lyric Theatre) ★★★
Opening in 2009 at the Lyric Theatre, Thriller Live is a musical like no other. Celebrating the music of Michael Jackson, the concert showcases his unforgettable music and dazzling choreography. Now in it’s tenth year in the West End, Thriller Live has embarked on a world tour, a sell-out UK arena tour, played over 5,000 […]
REVIEW: #HONESTAMY (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★
Amy Booth-Steel is a theatre actor – you might even recognise her from the 2008 Andrew Lloyd Webber TV contest to find his next Nancy – however her burgeoning career in the arts was abruptly put on hold five years ago when she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and told she might not live […]
REVIEW: THE MOUSETRAP (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★
We may never know what makes a play or musical destined for longevity. Les Miserables was panned by the critics and Agatha Christie herself only expected The Mousetrap to run for several months. But almost 70 years later, the production continues to appeal to global audiences. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised; after all, our television […]
REVIEW: DOGFIGHT (Southwark Playhouse) ★
The British Theatre Academy is presenting its summer season for the 5th year with four productions at the Southwark Playhouse. Footloose and My Son Pinocchio Jr have been staged and currently Once on this Island is in the Large while Dogfight is playing in The Little. The British Theatre Academy offers accessible theatre training and […]
REVIEW: NEWSREVUE (Canal Cafe Theatre) ★★★★
Newsrevue is celebrating its milestone 40th anniversary this year, having held the Guinness World Record of World’s Longest Running Comedy Show since 2004, and I went to see the latest cast at the Canal Café Theatre last week. For anyone not familiar with the format of the show, Newsrevue is an hour of musical comedy […]
REVIEW: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Grand Theatre, Blackpool) ★★★★
Around The World In 80 Days is written and directed by Ian McFarlane, has been specially commissioned and produced by the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, as part of the theatre’s 125th Anniversary celebrations. This musical comedy is based loosely on the novel by Jules Verne but accompanied by music from the 1980s. The story follows […]