REVIEW: CHIAROSCURO (Bush Theatre) ★★★★
This was my first visit to this wonderfully conceived Bush Theatre and there was an energetic feel about the place and a welcomeness that draws you in. I felt the excitement even before the play started. It built once the lights dimmed on the young diverse audience and this beautifully written play unfolded. Staged in […]
REVIEW: TORCH SONG (The Turbine Theatre) ★★★★★
Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three one-act plays International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The first of his trilogy, International Stud opened in 1978 at Off-Broadway’s Players Theatre, followed by Fugue in a Nursery and Widows and Children First! at Off-Off-Broadway’s La Mama in 1979. All […]
REVIEW: FALSETTOS (The Other Palace) ★★★★
The award winning Falsettos originally started life as the one-act musical ‘In Trousers’, written by William Finn premiering in 1979 at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons. After having two successful Off-Broadway runs of the show, Finn collaborated with James Lapine to create two additional one-act musicals, ‘March of the Falsettos’ and ‘Falsettoland’. March of the Falsettos premiered […]
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 […]