REVIEW: ONLY BONES (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
The late, great Gregory Hines apparently used to say that that you should be able to dance in a space about a metre square. It’s a captivating idea: that precision and technique are all-important and that wafting about in the luxury of space is somehow cheating. There are another couple of good reasons to confine […]
Broadway star Eden Espinosa chats about the new rock musical LIZZIE
You are joining the cast of Lizzie at Greenwich theatre this year. What is the show about and what attracted you to the part you are playing? Lizzie is about the murders and trail that Lizzie Borden was involved in. She was really the first female who gained fame and notoriety from being on trail […]
What hurts Madalena Alberto’s feelings? Find out in my Tea With Wilma interview
You have performed in some amazing shows so far in your career. What have been some of your highlights? I’ve been very lucky so far, and it’s hard to choose! Playing Fantine at the Chatelé in Paris, Eva Peron at the Dominion theatre, singing ‘Memory’ at the London Palladium… but it all has to do […]
REVIEW: NECESSITY (Bread & Roses Theatre) ★★★
Necessity is a new play written and directed by Paul Macauley. Following a sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe in May 2016, it gets a London premiere at Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham, produced by Broken Silence Theatre, Brighton’s leading new writing theatre company. Inspired by true events, Necessity is set against the backdrop […]
Norma’s off on tour! SUNSET BOULEVARD announce UK&I Tour Dates
Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to present the UK and Ireland tour of the Curve production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning musical SUNSET BOULEVARD. Starring Ria Jones as Norma Desmond and directed by Nikolai Foster, SUNSET BOULEVARD will open at Curve on Saturday 16 September 2017 (press night Thursday 28 September), before touring […]
Casting announced for the UK premiere of The Diary of a Teenage Girl at Southwark Playhouse
The Diary of a Teenage Girl recounts the coming-of-age adventures of Minnie Goetze, a San Francisco teenager growing up in the counterculture haze of the 1970s. Lonely and artistic, Minnie chronicles her trials through expressive drawings and painfully honest missives confided to a tape recorder. One fateful evening alone with her mother’s boyfriend, Minnie is […]
World premiere of SLEEPLESS THE MUSICAL postponed
Due to an illness within the producer’s family and overwhelming unexpected circumstances, SLEEPLESS The Musical has been postponed. The producer hopes to have further news of the future of the production next year. The world premiere of SLEEPLESS the Musical based on the Tristar Pictures Inc. film Sleepless in Seattle, starring Danny Mac, Carley Stenson, […]
Trying SEEDLIP – a new alternative to alcohol
Seedlip is a range of the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits based on the distilled non-alcoholic remedies from The Art of Distillation written in 1651 and now re-purposed to pioneer a new category of drinks to solve the ‘what to drink when you’re not drinking dilemma’. After being exclusively stocked in Selfridges for a while, […]
Hunter 486 at The Arch Hotel
Hunter 486, located within The Arch Hotel, London is open all day and serving guests and non-residents heavenly food and drink in a casual, relaxed atmosphere, it features gleaming leather booths, blown glass chandeliers and imaginative artwork. It’s also the perfect place for celebrity spotting as the queen of pop, Madonna, lives directly opposite the […]
REVIEW: WAYWARD (The Vaults) ★★★★★
Cat Loud’s blend of storytelling and song is comic, warm, sharp edged and broadly political but never bitter. She tells her surreal story interspersed with a wonderful selection of contemporary and classic, multi genre songs, sung beautifully. This is political, feminist, cabaret with a bite, featuring Cat Loud who is a London-based writer and performer […]