Dear Lupin
Dear Lupin is a hilarious, yet touching collection of letters that racing journalist Roger Mortimer wrote to his son, Charlie, over the space of 25 years, up until his final letter before he died in 1991. Rogers letters are hilarious. Complaining constantly about his nagging wife, the boring dinner parties he has had […]
Alice: A New Musical – St James Studio
We all know Lewis Carrol’s classic 1865 story of Alice In Wonderland. Alice, a girl, falls into a fantastical imaginary world of wonder and possibility. On her journey she meets a plethora of weird and wonderful characters like the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts. More than twenty different […]
Julie Atherton – Proud Cabaret
West End On Sea are a company that originated in Brighton, however have recently started performing in their new venue, Proud Cabaret in London. Proud Cabaret City is modelled on a 1920’s speakeasy and offers an evening of fine dining and entertainment of unrivalled prestige. West End On Sea – aka The Follow Spot in […]
Beautiful – Aldwych Theatre
Carole King is a Grammy award winning singer/songwriter whose career has spanned more than 50 years! At 73 years old she is still going strong and about to release a new CD of greatest hits. This ties in nicely with the Broadway transfer of the musical ‘Beautiful’ which tells the story of her life and features […]
The Nether – Duke of Yorks Theatre
Where do we draw the line between right and wrong, fact and fiction, reality and fantasy? The topic covered in The Nether surrounds the taboo subject of paedophilia. Set in the year 2050 (scarily close to the time we actually live in), the play explores a world where virtual gaming has crossed into a sinister […]
Cats – The Palladium
There’s a line sung by Gus, the Theatre Cat, where he says that ‘these modern productions are all very well, but there’s nothing to equal from what I hear tell’. My feelings about Cats could not have been summed up finer than by him. Cats tells the everyday and ordinary story of the […]
A View From The Bridge – Wyndhams Theatre
‘A View From The Bridge’, by Arthur Miller, was written by the playwright during the five years that he was married to Marilyn Monroe: consequentially it’s easy to speculate and draw parallels between the subject matter of the piece and the preoccupations of its author at that time. The play tells the story of Eddie […]
Macbeth – Lost Theatre
Claiming to strip the story back to the text, David Shopland’s Macbeth also asks us to find the humanity within each character. Witches, birth-strangled babes and prophecies aside, Shakespeare’s Scottish play is about ambition, arrogance and betrayal as the characters stop at nothing to further their own situation. The play is the playground of the […]
Jekyll and Hyde – Greenwich Theatre
Sell A Door Theatre is producing a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, which opened at the Greenwich Theatre and will continue on to a 33 date UK Tour. This new adaptation is written by Jo Clifford and directed by David Hutchinson and is a modern interpretation of the original story with multiple twists including […]
It’s A Bird . . . It’s A Plane . . . It’s Superman – Leicester Square Theatre
It’s A Bird . . . It’s A Plane . . . It’s Superman flew into the Leicester Square Theatre for a limited run on the 10th February and finishes on 21st February. Produced by All Star Productions this show is a humorous send up of the old style comic strip of Superman. Having first […]