She Loves Me – Landor Theatre
She loves me is the 1963 Broadway musical and the third adaptation of the film Parfumerie by the Hungrian Playwright Miklos Laszio. The Shop Around The Corner, In The Good Old Summertime (starring Judy Garland) and the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail (starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks). The show tells the story of perfume […]
Gods and Monsters – Southwark Playhouse
Russell Labey’s biographical fantasy is an adaptation of Christopher Bram’s book Father of Frankenstein, the same source material as the 1998 film. So with the movie picking up an Oscar nomination for Ian McKellen and Bill Condon taking home the statuette for best adapted screenplay, it was a tough act to follow and intriguing to […]
Boa – Trafalgar Studios
Fresh from critical acclaim as Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse, Dame Harriet Walter takes to the stage in this two man production of Clara Brennan’s new play Boa. She stars in the production alongside her real life husband, American actor Guy Paul. Hannah Price directs this new work in the intimate setting at the […]
Othello – Rose Theatre
In the intimate setting above The Rose’s archaeological site, Pamela Schermann brings Shakespeare’s Othello into the heart of the 21st Century. Where a city office provides the setting for a world in which water cooler gossip and naked ambition form the driving force behind a web of deceit and power struggles. Schermann’s inspiration lies in […]
The Goodbye Girl – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Life isn’t fair. As a young girl I believed that I’d grow up, get married and have children. Simple, expected and so straightforward. But that is not the case. Life never pans out the way you expect and the so-called nuclear family no longer exists. But this doesn’t matter. Based on the 1977 film, The […]
The Elephant Man – Brockley Jack Theatre
The 1980 film of The Elephant Man starred Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt and became a huge success with eight Oscar nominations after its release. Ahead of this summers Broadway transfer of the show starring Bradley Cooper, a small, intimate production has been brought to South London’s Brockley Jack Studio Theatre. And they have done […]
Shakespeare In Love – Noel Coward Theatre
‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’. These ‘players’ in Shakespeare in Love truly produced something extraordinary and fresh in theatre – making the past relevant and humorous for a modern-day audience. I have never seen the film, unlike, I’m sure, the majority of the audience. Going into the […]
The Full Monty – New Victoria Theatre, Woking
An audience comprised of 90% women? Hardly surprising when Gary Lucy is getting his kit off… Taking The Full Monty from screen to stage sounds like an easy task, but unlike the 1997 film there is much less scope for a set. Based in the old factory/warehouse where Gaz (Gary Lucy) and Dave (Martin Miller) […]
Anything Goes – New Wimbledon Theatre
I love Cole Porter and I really wanted to love the current touring production of ‘Anything Goes’, playing until 7th February at the New Wimbledon Theatre. First performed on Broadway in 1934, the show focuses on the love story between Hope Harcourt (Zoë Rainey) and Billy Crocker (Matt Rawle) and his efforts to subvert her […]
Di and Viv and Rose – Vaudeville Theatre
Di and Viv and Rose tells the story of friendship between three women who meet at university and grow up together. Following a successful run at the Hampstead Theatre, the show is now in the West End for a limited time, playing at the Vaudeville on the Strand. Act One is set over the first […]