REVIEW: COMPANY (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★★
It’s a relief to know that the buzz around Marianne Elliott’s sex-switched production of Company is fully justified – it makes you feel better about London theatre-hype in general. Our great Lord Stephen of Sondheim himself has described Company as possessing ‘more of a condition’ than a narrative. That’s beautifully astute. Not a huge amount […]
REVIEW: STAGES FLOATING FESTIVAL ★★★★
What a week me and my mum has last week onboard the first ever Stages Floating Festival cruise – Glastonbury for musical theatre lovers, on board the huge Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas. With more musical theatre than you could possibly dream of, over four days the ship sailed to Amsterdam and back, providing concerts […]
REVIEW: GUYS AND DOLLS (Royal Albert Hall) ★★★★
Having premiered on Broadway in 1950, Guys and Dolls has been hailed variously as ‘the perfect musical comedy’ and ‘a work of art’. A debate rages about whether the show has aged well (even the title is enough for it to be assigned retrospectively ‘problematic’ in some quarters), but even if you tire of the […]
REVIEW: One Night With… Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jodie Steele (Studio 88) ★★★★
Tucked away behind the Prince of Wales Theatre, the plush Studio 88, raucously celebrates the joy of live music every night of the week. As the teen-girl-heavy audience wait patiently, Carrie Hope Fletcher and Jodie Steele rush past the queues of fans encompassing the Heathers stage door and scramble onto the studio stage at 11pm. […]
REVIEW: Jersey Boys (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★
Oh what a night indeed….. While this musical has been doing the rounds for some time now, I’d never seen it nor realised that over 25 million theatre fans across the world have enjoyed “Jersey Boys” since it first opened In London and went on to enjoy a successful 9 Year Run, When interviewed Frankie […]
REVIEW: Jericho’s Rose (The Hope Theatre) ★★
Lilac Yosiphon writes, co-directs and performs this autobiographical exploration of memory, identity and language at the Hope Theatre. Yosiphon uses a mix of narration, dialogue, movement, dance and music to draw parallels between her grandfather’s loss of identity caused by his Alzheimer’s disease and her loss of home caused by her nomadic existence as an […]
REVIEW: A Guide for the Homesick (Trafalgar Studio 2) ★★★
This is a play about the world getting worse. Camp and endearing aid worker Jeremy (Douglas Booth), who definitely isn’t gay, is on his way home from a stint in Uganda atoning for his white guilt when he misses his connecting flight and ends up in Teddy’s Amsterdam hotel room for a beer. Swaggering banker […]
REVIEW: Frankenstein (Sutton House) ★★★
Halloween season often brings out the classic and well-known horror stories and they don’t come much better known than Mary Shelly’s 200-year-old story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature. This presents a challenge in coming up with a fresh or interesting way of telling the tale and Tea Break Theatre have certainly created something different […]
REVIEW: The Priscilla Party Experience: The Cockatoo Club (Proud Cabaret) ★★
Proud announces itself as London’s newest super club, although I am not sure quite what criteria they are using to measure themselves! There appears to be quite a range of events taking place at the club, so it is not solely a cabaret venue, however The Cockatoo Club have taken over for one night to […]
REVIEW: The Trench (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
I first came across the theatre company Les Enfants Terribles when I attended Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults. It was one of the most innovative, weird, hilarious and downright bonkers theatre performances I have ever seen and I loved every minute of it. Their latest production, The Trench at Southwark Playhouse could not be […]