REVIEW: MARIA FRIEDMAN – FROM THE HEART (Crazy Coqs) ★★★★
The Friedman sisters Maria and Sonia are from a talented family; Sonia as one of the leading Theatre Producers in the World and Maria, a West End Musical star and director and it was wonderful to see her in concert at Live at Zedel, the Cabaret room Crazy Coqs, inside Brasserie Zedel, just off of […]
REVIEW: Bernie Dieter’s Little Death Club (Underbelly) ★★★★★
“The Little Death” or “La Petite Mort” is a colloquial term for the post-coital feeling of bliss; how apt then the title of this high-octane, thrilling and unique hour of cabaret, with it’s orgasmic smorgasbord of spectacular spectaculars. At just the right length and with no weak link, we are welcomed to the seasonal pop […]
REVIEW: HEROES (Drayton Arms Theatre) ★★★
Bebe and Tony Barry’s coming of age tale (set to a 1972 soundtrack of David Bowie hits) comes to the Drayton Arms Theatre, under the direction of Ben Woodhall, in a production that is enjoyable, without ever really reaching the stars. Billie (Bebe Barry) is a misfit teenager from Tonbridge who is inspired by Bowie’s […]
REVIEW: THE GREAT BRITISH PANTOMIME AWARDS 2019
As cast and technical teams recover from the 2018/19 Pantomime season and Producers turn to preparing for the 2019/20 season, the whole Pantomime Family came together with a host of celebrity stars and Pantomime fanatics to celebrate the genre at the third annual GB Pantomime Awards at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London. It made […]
REVIEW: FULL MONTY (Wimbledon New Theatre) ★★★★
Attending the press night of Simon Beaufoy‘s award winning play (based on his own screenplay), the well loved multi Bafta award winning 1997 film was an hilarious event, not least for the reactions and heckling of the mostly 50 something hormonal women baying for the talented cast’s inevitable striptease..egged on good naturedly by TV heartthrob […]
REVIEW: WEST END EUROVISION 2019 (Adelphi Theatre) ★★★★★
Staged for the first time in the rather lovely Adelphi Theatre, West End Eurovision has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for MAD Trust and its ninth year event did not disappoint. The Make A Difference Trust works tirelessly to support HIV and AIDS related projects in both the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa; as the Chair of […]
REVIEW: Shit Faced Shakespeare – Taming Of The Shrew (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★
If you’d told me that after three years of intense training at drama school, and after revising a Shakespearian script, character development and weeks of rehearsals that I must now consume about three quarters of a bottle of gin and perform to a live audience, there is no way I would assume it would go […]
REVIEW: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Richmond Theatre) ★★★★
Tilted Wig Productions present a new take on Oscar Wilde’s infamous and only novel, currently touring the country. We are first introduced to Dorian Gray, our orphaned anti-hero, via the characters of Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton. Basil (Daniel Goode) is a skilled painter, currently subdued with the task of finishing a painting of […]
REVIEW: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Rose Theatre Kingston) ★★★★★
Louis de Bernieres’s 1994 novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, runs to over 500 pages, divided into over 70 chapters and became a two-hour movie in 2001. So the ambitious challenge for stage adapter Rona Munro and director Melly Still, is how to tell the story which spans about fifty years of life on the Greek island […]
REVIEW: Club Tropicana The Musical (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★
Club Tropicana The Musical is a new jukebox musical by Michael Gyngell. With a soundtrack of pop songs performed live on stage. Club Tropicana is described as ‘a summer adventure of love in the sun. It takes a fun-packed trip back in time to the electric 80’s when hair was big, shoulders were padded, girls […]