Theatre Review: Wolfboy – Trafalgar Studios 2, London
I was in the audience at the very first performance of Wolfboy The Musical when it previewed at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, before being unleashed to audiences at the Edinburgh Festival last year....
View ArticleTheatre Review: Deathtrap – Noel Coward
Deathtrap is the latest play to hit Theatreland, replacing Calender Girls at the Noel Coward. It tells the story of a playwright Sidney Bruhl and the hunt for his next masterpiece. However, it should...
View ArticleReview: Flashdance – Shaftesbury Theatre **
Fashion, film and now theatre have all fallen under the spell of the 80’s revival as Flashdance, the latest film adaptation, breaks, body-pops and thrusts it’s way into The Shaftesbury Theatre....
View ArticleReview: Bright Lights, Big City – Hoxton Hall ***
It’s taken 11 years for Paul Scott Goodman’s Off-Broadway rock musical to surface in London, and it’s hard to imagine a better case being made for it than Christopher Lane’s energetic, strongly cast...
View ArticleReview: Novecento – Trafalagar Studios 2 ****
A central theme, developed, extrapolated, teased, and drawn out; jazz music is like taking a melody for a walk and allowing it to lead you wherever it wants. So too, Novecento, the second production...
View ArticleReview: Palace of the End – Arcola ****
Palace of the End offers us a steel fist encased in a velvet glove; Judith Thompson’s exquisite triptych of monologues revisits three ghosts of the Iraq war in this flawless production at the Arcola....
View ArticleReview: Phantasmagoria – Gravel at Theatre 503 ***
Noun Phan.tas.ma.go.ri.a A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery as seen in a dream or fever. This is how the description read on the programme cover at the 503 last night....
View ArticleReview: Kissing Sid James – New Red Lion Theatre ***
Given the title, one would be forgiven for thinking this amusing piece is a tribute to the Carry On Films; and actually although far less innocent, there is much common ground. The play centres around...
View ArticleReview: American Idiot, Hammersmith Apollo ✭✭✭✭✭
This isn’t just the best rock musical there has ever been, it’s the only rock musical there has ever been. Where others have betrayed their roots with the transition to stage; American Idiot’s roots...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Twelfth Night – Filter Theatre
If music be the food of love, then… well party on. Osino's opening line uttered by Jonathan Broadbent, gave us excess of it, creating an alcohol-fuelled hedonistic student rave of a production. Filter...
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