REVIEW: Little Shop Of Horrors (Open Air Theatre) ★★★★★
Based on Roger Corman’s 1960 dark comedy film starring a young Jack Nicholson, Little Shop Of Horrors premiered Off-Broadway in 1982. The musical was the brainchild of writing team Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the team who went on to write the music and lyrics for Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast and […]
REVIEW: Le Gateau Chocolat: Icons(Assembly George Square) ★★★★
Le Gateau Chocolat brings his show celebrating the music of his icons to the Piccolo Tent in George Square. His chatty style suits the space well, surrounded by the audience on three sides with two aisles for walking among the crowd. Gateau’s voice is the star of this show, from eighties ballads with a fan […]
REVIEW: ARISTOCRATS (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★
Ballybeg Hall is a manor which sits atop a hill looking out at the isolated Donegal village of Ballybeg. Despite its grandioseness, the property is rotting from the inside out and in typical Friel fashion, is not the only thing decaying as we zoom in on the lives of the O’Donnells. American professor, Tom Hoffnung […]
REVIEW: Around The World in 80 Days (Union Theatre) ★★★
Jules Verne’s classic Around The World In 80 Days bursts to life at The Union Theatre in Phil Willmott and Annemarie Lewis-Thomas’ musical adaptation. After enjoying a very successful run at the Battersea Arts Centre in 2001, this witty musical is back to entertain, delight and wonder. Freely adapted from the much-loved adventure novel, Around […]
REVIEW: Vicki and Pat in Fuerteventura (Theatre 503) ★★★★
We’ve all been there: the all-inclusive week-long getaway to somewhere in Europe, filling our days with poolside politics, being pressured into dreadful activities from the entertainment team and stuffing ourselves stupid at the buffet three times per day. The British dream, right? This is the case for Vicki and Pat, two women who find themselves […]
REVIEW: STUPID CUPID (Underbelly Clover) ★★★★
In July, West End Wilma interviewed Liz McMullen about her Edinburgh show Stupid Cupid, and I took it upon myself to check the show out. One woman shows are never in shortage at the fringe festival, in 2017, the converging theme was alcohol. This year the theme is anything goes, from the One-Woman Sex & […]
REVIEW: BRING IT ON (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★
Before he revolutionised musical theatre with the smash-hit Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda lent his genius to the adaption of an all singing, all cheerleading Bring It On the Musical which makes its UK premier at the Southwark Playhouse. Based on the 2000 film of the same name, the musical follows Truman High cheerleader, Campbell (Robyn McIntyre), […]
REVIEW: Everything’s Going to be KO (Pleasance Courtyard) ★★★★
We are greeted by Cecilia, a lovely calming, soft voiced creature who runs us all through a series of tests; where there are no wrong nor right answers. As the tests continue it becomes clear that however calming and relaxed Cecelia seems, we are not relaxed about the questions and more importantly the answers. And […]
REVIEW: Russian Roulette (Hounslow Arts Centre) ★★★★★
A new format has come to town. One big wheel of shows. One roulette wheel. One tombola… and pure chaos. In Edinburgh, there will be three Russian plays on the wheel but for the sake of the preview the seagull was pre-chosen. However, the madness was not. On every ball in the tombola there is […]
REVIEW: The Mould that Changed the World (Surgeon’s Hall) ★★★★
It’s quite a bold title and aptly staged at the Surgeon’s Hall. The show begins at a UN conference for Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR), which is at once a curious place to start, considering that this is a musical. Yes that’s right. Musical theatre. About antibiotics. Stay with me. The action goes right to the dawn […]