SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE INVISIBLE THING (Rudolf Steiner Theatre) ★★★
The Rudolf Steiner Theatre is just a stones throw from 221B Baker Street, so it seems appropriate to stage this play by Greg Freeman here. The play stays true to the original characters of Holmes and Watson and does have a strikingly modern feel in its headstrong leading lady, Miss Grendle, concerned about being an […]
REVIEW: MOTOWN (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★
Following a 3-year stint in London’s West End, Motown hit the road in October 2018 and embarked on an extensive UK tour, which this week stopped off at Milton Keynes Theatre. One of the more commercially successful attempts in the ‘jukebox musical’ club in recent years, this song-packed stroll down memory lane tells the story […]
REVIEW: Chambers (Immersive Dining Experience From Gingerline) ★★★★
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a Londoner is forever in pursuit of new experiences. One would be hard pressed to find a quirkier way to enjoy a five-course dinner in the capital. The fourth instalment of the rebranded “Chambers_” has amassed a keen following – the first month’s worth of preview tickets sold out […]
REVIEW: Rock of Ages (Sunderland Empire) ★★★
Rock of Ages arrives into Sunderland, bringing with it power ballads and big hair as we move into Los Angeles in the 1980’s. Essentially a love story, in fact many love stories, and a ‘will they or won’t they’ ending. It is actually quite a sleazy show – and not in a good way. Did […]
REVIEW: The Actor’s Nightmare (Park Theatre) ★★
Theatre of the Absurd is something of an acquired taste, with its normal situations peppered with leaps of logic and bizarre twists. Christopher Durang‘s curated series of six short extended sketches, seeks to give the world of film and theatre an absurd treatment. The Actor’s Nightmare, staged in the round in the Park 90, places […]
REVIEW: WHERE IS PETER RABBIT (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★
Beatrix Potter wrote and illustrated her delightful cautionary tales between 1901 and 1918 and their publication by Frederick Warne has created multiple generations of fans for the charming little books. The Old Laundry Theatre developed this stage version in 2016 bringing it to the West End in 2018 and it now returns for a season […]
REVIEW: The Falcon’s Malteser (The Vaults) ★★★
New Old Friends Theatre Company are developing a distinctive style of theatre, based on taking well known titles (or genres) and creating fast paced parodies of the style and story. After the recent touring success of “Crimes on the Nile”, this latest production at London’s Vaults is The Falcon’s Malteser. The format is the same. […]
REVIEW: HIVE CITY LEGACY (The Roundhouse) ★★★★
A powerful piece of performance art that packs a punch! The Australian creative collective Briefs Factory bill themselves as “manufacturers and distributors of evocative, irreverent, political punk performance”. For the last few years the men of the Briefs Factory have brought their incredible burlesque cabaret show to the Spiegel Tent at Underbelly. Last year, the […]
REVIEW: Hair the Musical (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★
Having censored theatre seems pretty archaic, lending itself to a time when Shakespeare was scripting his masterpieces and plague was decimating cities. And yet, just 50 years ago plays were still subject to strict rules and regulations. Enter Hair. First performed in London the day after the Theatres Act 1843 was abolished, it aimed to […]
REVIEW: EQQUS (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★★★
Eqqus, made famous by starring Daniel Radcliffe in 2008 opened to a full house of big theatre names last Monday at Trafalgar Studios. The play itself follows the diagnosis of a boy who has committed a crime against horses in a nearby stable. Peter Shaffer, the writer, covers lots of issues that arise in modern […]