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REVIEW: I Loved Lucy (Arts Theatre) ★★★★

Modern day TV is a plethora of reality TV shows, with today’s ‘stars’ playing themselves in Chelsea, Essex or California. Yet people may forget that Lucille Ball was the original reality TV star, starring in I Love Lucy with her husband Desi. Based on Lee Tannen’s memoirs of the same name, I Loved Lucy looks […]

Look how much fun the I Loved Lucy stars are having in rehearsals

They’re having as much fun as a classic episode of Lucille Ball’s TV show “I Love Lucy”, judging by these fabulous rehearsal photos. Showered with rave reviews and following two sold-out London runs in 2016, Lee Tannen’s incredibly personal, funny, bitter-sweet play “I Loved Lucy”, directed by Anthony Biggs, about Lee’s 10-year relationship with TV […]

I LOVED LUCY transfers to the ARTS THEATRE

Showered with rave reviews and following two sold-out runs in 2016, Lee Tannen’s incredibly personal, funny, bitter-sweet play I Loved Lucy about his 10-year relationship with TV comedy legend Lucille Ball is to transfer to London’s Arts Theatre for a strictly limited 7-week season from Wednesday 19 July. I Loved Lucy is a personal portrait of […]

West End Wilma – Review Round-Up

Take a look at all the shows that have been reviewed over the past week on westendwilma.com … REVIEW: Russian Dolls (King’s Head Theatre) ★★★★ Russian Dolls was shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2013 before winning the Adrian Pagan award last year. Based on the real-life story of an Islington version of Hilda, Kate Lock’s […]

REVIEW: I LOVED LUCY (Jermyn Street Theatre)

Lucille Ball, the sitcom duchess of the 50’s was known for her excellence in physical comedy, her ability to make the implausible seem possible and as the scatter brained wannabe in her and her husband’s sitcom, ‘I Love Lucy’. But what was she really like? Although one of the American sweethearts during the golden age […]