REVIEW: WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM? (The Space) ★
Tales of true crime are an obsession for the nation, and indeed, the world. From the latest Netflix documentary to the walking tours of Kray-land London and Ripper’s streets of Whitechapel, the macabre and often brutal side of life intrigues us all. And, it is certain this production, by Pregnant Fish Theatre, has delved deeper […]
REVIEW: MATILDA THE MUSICAL (Curve Leicester) ★★★★★
I had the pleasure of attending the opening night of Royal Shakespeare Company‘s masterpiece, Matilda the Musical, at Curve Leicester last night as the curtain raised on its highly anticipated UK tour. Resident at the Cambridge Theatre, Matilda the Musical now embarks on its first venture around the country since it opened at Stratford Upon […]
REVIEW: BAYSIDE THE MUSICAL (The Other Palace) ★
Michael Neri Productions stages a stripped back, self-aware musical based on the hit 90s TV show, Saved By The Bell. The show claims ‘Whether you’re a Saved By The Bell buff or not quite sure what all the hype is about, this lively and cheeky Musical promises to entertain.’ This statement is categorically incorrect. Those […]
REVIEW: THE CALENDAR GIRLS (Original Cast Recording) ★★★★★
Formerly titled ‘The Girls‘, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth‘s new musical, based on the 2003 film The Calendar Girls, opened in London’s West End in January 2017 where it ran for six months.The show is now getting ready to embark on a UK Tour, beginning in August 2018 in Leeds before continuing around the country. […]
REVIEW: THE TWINS MACABRE: SLAY (Vault Festival) ★★★★★
Slay is the latest outpouring from the very warped, weird, and hilariously funny, Twins Macabre. These delightful ‘ten-year-old’ serial killers have found fame and fortune – glorified by the British gutter press and celebrated on social media alike. Billed as; ‘Comedy. Horror and Sass’, there is more sass than horror and more comedy than you […]
REVIEW: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER UNMASKED: THE PLATINUM COLLECTION ★★★★
This week, musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrates his 70th birthday and to commemorate this milestone achievement, a greatest hits collection of his work is being released on Friday 16 March, 2018. Featuring songs from the start of his career (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) to his latest work almost fifty years on […]
REVIEW: PRISCILLA FOLLE DU DESERT (Casino de Paris) ★
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is the much loved cult classic film about three Australian drag queens who buy a clapped out old bus, paint it fluorescent pink and attempt to drive it 3,000km from Sydney to Alice Springs, in the centre of Australia, to perform at a run down casino. As they drive deeper […]
REVIEW: SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM (Richmond Theatre) ★
The 1970’s was an era famous for ABBA, handlebar moustaches and revolutionary television sitcoms that set a standard for years to come. Amongst such classics as ‘Are You Being Served?’, ‘Fawlty Towers’ and ‘Porridge’ was the creation of ‘Frank Spencer’ in ‘Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Em’. A programme about a hapless, loveable yet idiotic character […]
REVIEW: SHERIDAN (Sheridan Smith) ★★★
Sheridan Smith has been lighting up the stage and screen for the last twenty years and has won a whole host of awards for her television and theatre work. From Two Pints of Larger and a Packet Of Crisps, Gavin and Stacey and more recently Cilla to Legally Blonde and Funny Girl in the West […]
REVIEW: Natasha Barnes may not consider herself a ‘Supermodel’ but she is a REAL superstar ★★★★★
Full disclosure; when musical theatre actors release albums and fill them with original songs, I sometimes roll my eyes. I like musical theatre performers to release albums of musical theatre songs. So when Natasha Barnes‘s album REAL fell through the letterbox, I scanned the track listing and was disappointed that the only musical theatre song […]