REVIEW: LIFERS at Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Lifers – a new play exploring where the line is between ‘duty of care’ and ‘duty to care’ in a prison system built to punish, not to support. For the past twenty years, Synergy Theatre Project has worked with prisoners, ex prisoners, young offenders and at-risk youth to inspire change through groundbreaking work across theatre […]
REVIEW: BLESSINGS (Riverside Studios) ★★ – October 2025
Set in the ‘swinging sixties’, Blessings seeks to ask the questions of “do changes in the world make any difference to the way we navigate personal relationships”? Frances has been expelled from school for telling a Nun to ‘fuck off’ and we soon find out she is five months pregnant. Mother Dorie thinks she should […]
REVIEW: HAMLET (National Theatre) ★★★★
Hiran Abeysekera returns to the National Theatre following an Olivier Award Winning performance in Life Of Pi. Shakespeare is not my area of speciality when it comes to theatre – he didn’t write many musicals. I only remember studying Romeo and Juliet at school and I wasn’t enthralled to delve deeper into the works of […]
REVIEW: The Soon Life (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★ – October 2025
Labour on stage? Now there’s a delivery you don’t see every day. Phoebe McIntosh’s The Soon Life pushes into rarely explored territory, charting a home birth in real time while an unexpected ex crashes the party. It’s bold, it’s messy, and at times it’s as exhausting for us as it is for poor Bec. The […]
REVIEW: The Importance Of Being Earnest ★★★★★ – October 2025
Following a sold-out run at the National Theatre, The Importance of Being Earnest opened last night at the Noël Coward Theatre starring Olly Alexander and Stephen Fry. Directed by Max Webster, this new fresh take on Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy brings the story into the modern day and is a great example of how […]
REVIEW: Get Down Tonight (Charing Cross Theatre) ★★★
Developed at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival under the name ‘Who Do Ya Love?’ GET DOWN TONIGHT – the story of KC and the Sunshine Band is now playing at London’s Charing Cross Theatre. I don’t think I have ever felt more conflicted when writing a review about a show but Get Down Tonight really […]
Magic at the Musicals celebrates the best in musical theatre
Magic at the Musicals returned to the Royal Albert Hall last weekend, to celebrate the best in musical theatre. Hosted by Magic Radio presenter, actress and comedian Mel Giedroyc and Magic Musicals presenter and West End superstar Ruthie Henshall, the pair spent the evening laughing off fluffed lines, between performances from a wide range of […]
REVIEW: Punch at the Apollo Theatre ★★★★★
James Graham‘s play Punch opened at London’s West End Apollo Theatre on Friday, marking the end of One Punch Awareness Week which takes place during the third week of September each year. Inspired by a five-part radio series, Punch tells the heartbreakingly true story of nineteen-year old Jacob Dunne, who with one drunken punch, killed twenty-eight […]
REVIEW: 50 First Dates the Musical at The Other Palace ★★★
He’s falling for her every day—she’s forgetting him every night. 50 First Dates was the ultimate 2004 rom-com starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. It tells the story of Lucy Whitmore, an art teacher who suffered brain damage and now wakes up every morning, thinking it is the day before her birthday (a bit like […]
REVIEW: Clarkston at Trafalgar Theatre ★★★
Heartstopper and Agatha All Along star Joe Locke makes his West End debut in the UK premiere of Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter. Jake (Joe Locke) arrives in a small town and starts working the night shift at Costco, stacking shelves. Partnered up with Chris (Ruaridh Mollica), the two youngsters form a friendship. Jake divulges […]