REVIEW: JOHN OWEN-JONES – SPOTLIGHT ★★★★
Renound musical theatre performer John Owen-Jones has made a name for himself by repeatedly playing lead roles in both Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. In 1998, he became the youngest person ever to play the role of Jean Valjean full-time when he took over in the London production at the age of 26, […]
REVIEW: Betrayal (Pinter at the Pinter) ★★★
Pinter’s forensic study of betrayal is a fitting 90-minute coda to Jamie Lloyd Company’s season Pinter At The Pinter, which looked back over the Nobel Prize winning playwright’s shorter works a decade after his death. The play is strongly autobiographical and based on a seven-year extramarital affair Pinter had with Joan Bakewell from 1962 to […]
REVIEW: DRAG – Live in Soho! (Jack Solomon’s Club) ★★★★
Saturday night I went to see performances from HERR, Ophelia Love, Cheryl Hole, Kitty Scott Claus, Tayce and Ashley Foxx At the ‘Live In Soho’ show at Jack Solomon’s, produced by Tuckshop. I’ve seen these queens perform before, but I felt they had found the next level this time. If you’re looking for a bar […]
REVIEW: Romance Romance (Above the Stag Theatre) ★★★★
Romance Romance is split into two parts, connected only by the common theme of – you guessed it – love. Barry Harman‘s script is an amalgamation of two existing stories that he found whilst browsing in a bookstore. Along with a team of talented creatives, he decided to reimagine the characters as homosexuals and bring […]
REVIEW: Billy Bishop Goes To War (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
First produced in 1978, John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson’s Billy Bishop Goes to War is the most widely staged musical play in Canadian theatre. The two-man play dramatizes the life of Billy Bishop who transforms from failing Canadian military college student to the fighter pilot of his generation and a somewhat reluctant war hero. […]
REVIEW: ADMISSIONS (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★
White guilt, privilege and discrimination all come under the microscope in Joshua Harmon‘s Admissions. The play centres around Sherri (Alex Kingston), the Head of Admissions at an elite American private school, fighting to diversify the student body. The problem comes when her son Charlie (Ben Edelman) doesn’t get into his university of choice, but his […]
REVIEW: Model Behaviour (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
Model Behaviour comes to Pleasance Theatre following sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and a London preview at the Arcola. This one woman show gives an insight into the darker corners of the glamorous world of fashion, told through the eyes of a young model making her way in the industry. The all female production […]
REVIEW: Madagascar The Musical (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★
You’ve Got to Move It, Move It…..to the New Victoria Theatre…Hurry! It’s not often that I have to try and swap my reviewing head, but this was definitely one of those times when I went to see Madagascar the Musical, I have had to take off my adult head and plonk on my child’s head […]
REVIEW: SIX (Arts Theatre) ★★★★★
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. Perhaps one of the most (in)famous kings there ever was, Henry VIII is remembered for many things. However, Brits in particular know him for his six wives. We all have our favourites (Anne Boleyn has always been a heroine of mine… and yes I probably would’ve had my head […]
REVIEW: TRIAL BY LAUGHTER (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★
In an era of ‘fake news’, the importance of the free press becomes paramount. In some countries, writers are still persecuted for telling the truth and even in the western world, satirists receive death threats and suspect parcels on many occasions. Trial by Laughter by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman tells the story of William […]