Category: Reviews

REVIEW: ALADDIN (Prince Edward Theatre) 🧞‍♂️ ★★

As for most of us growing up with Disney; Aladdin was a running favorite featuring animal sidekicks, huge catchy songs, lovable characters and, well, the voice of Robin Williams. Sadly, most of this magic is lost in the stage production, and replaced with cheap-effect pyros and modern day, gimmick-like references; there really is no place […]

REVIEW: TESTAMENT (Hope Theatre) ★★★

It is timely that this brave concept piece about a young man’s struggle with grief, that leads to his attempted suicide, staged in association and raising money for CALM – the suicide prevention charity – is presented at the Hope Theatre, Islington during mental health awareness week. Suicide is sadly the biggest killer of young […]

REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★★

My review might make you assume that I know people in this production, or am in some way associated with the company but I can assure you I am not, but as a jobbing actress, I wish I was. Watching Splitlip’s “Operation Mincemeat” a musical comedy interpretation of a factual, yet improbable, wartime event that […]

REVIEW: Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Union Theatre) ★★★★★

Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and book by Bill Russell. Featuring songs and monologues inspired by the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, the piece was developed in San Francisco in 1985 and was originally titled […]

REVIEW: SUMMER STREET (Waterloo East Theatre) ★★★★

Summer Street, the Aussie Soap Opera Musical, comes to Waterloo East Theatre for three weeks, following a short run at Brighton Fringe. With book, music and lyrics by Andrew Norris, this show offers exactly what it says on the tin. Last year saw the 30th anniversaries of Neighbours and Home and Away; Norris looks back […]

REVIEW: THE OTHER HALF (White Bear Theatre) ★★★

This short, one-act play, explores how family history still affects us all, as understanding our childhood experiences helps us know who we are and why we do the things we do. Writer and director Francessca Charlemagne has devised the play in collaboration with the cast, Lauren Leppard and Shannon Assaf. Leppard plays older sister Iris […]

REVIEW: The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson (Park Theatre) ★★★★★

It is worth noting that “The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson” was co-funded by Arts50, a scheme commissioned by Sky Arts to explore the notion of what it means to be British in the wake of Brexit. Of almost 1,000 entries, this was one of a shortlist of only 50 to receive funding. With achingly […]

REVIEW: CLASS (Bush Theatre) ★★★★

The title of this extremely clever and thought provoking, one act play, is doubly apt; while it is set in a school classroom and covers both after school reading classes with two pupils in need of extra tuition and a fraught parent-teacher meeting after school, it is also a thought provoking and empathetic look at […]

REVIEW: AMERICAN IDIOT (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★

American Idiot premiered in 2009 at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre before moving to Broadway’s St James Theatre in 2010. Since then, the sung-through rock musical based on Green Day’s 2004 concept album of the same name has seen great success winning two Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for the Original Broadway Cast Album. On […]