20 stories by "Geri Silver"
Titanic is quite a grand and ambitious undertaking for a musical, and some unfamiliar sceptics might see the title and expect a disaster as colossal as the ship on which it's based. But Tita…
Question: What do you get when a team of all-male writers create a new musical dedicated to the bizarre subculture of the WAG? Answer: An offensively bad, completely unfunny mess of a show t…
The Park Theatre, which some may know as "that brand new theatre in Finsbury Park", can now be known as "that brand new theatre with that really good, brand new play in Finsbury Park." The w…
Over a century after his famously brutal murders, London's Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate and intrigue those who come across his name. Jack the Ripper tours have sprung up around Eas…
When was the last time you saw a truly original musical? No, I don't mean the one written around a famous musician's greatest hits, or the latest contemporary ‘song cycle’ with c…
Money, greed, and power have been and always will be some of the greatest threats to civil society, and despite being the cause of much real-life suffering, they make for some great theatric…
It's been a quarter of a century since Howard Korder's Boys' Life was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize back in 1988, and its portrayal of masculinity in the post-feminist era was heralded as…
After critically acclaimed engagements in New York and Toronto, Rebecca Northan's Blind Date has landed at the Charing Cross Theatre here in London. Actress, Comedienne and ‘Improv-Art…
The stakes are high in the Cold War, and each act of aggression " or non-aggression " will come at a cost. With countless lives and the future of diplomacy riding on every decision, how can …
It's not very often that I feel a genuine chill go down my spine. In fact, until tonight I had completely forgotten the feeling of that particular sensation. But after David Rosenberg and Gl…
Examining the human mind is one of the most fascinating and complex things, and one that benefits from a creative approach. Dissolve, created by theatre company Awkward City and currently on…
More than half a century after Graham Greene's The Living Room began its two-year run on the West End, Primavera and the Jermyn Street Theatre have brought back this interesting and chilling…
AilÃs NÃ RÃain's new play Desolate Heaven takes its audience for quite a ride in its debut at Theatre 503. Described as "a story of falling in love for the first time and a story ab…
Lighting Jar Theatre Company's production of The Dreamer Examines His Pillow marks the UK premiere of this lesser-known work by John Patrick Shanley (of Doubt fame). While The Dreamer Examin…
Gareth Jandrell's new adaptation of Blood Wedding, originally written in 1933 by Spanish playwright Lorca, completes The Faction's repertory season at the …
The creative vehicle that drives the Tricycle Theatre's production of Don Evans' 1982 play One Monkey Don't Stop No Show is that the show assumes the format of a classic 1970s sitcom.…
Making its West End debut at the Arts Theatre, Richard Vergette's thrilling play American Justice soars to levels of bone-chilling intensity. Set in a prison facility in America's Deep South…
For many, young adulthood is a period of hard-hitting reality, in which we must face the realisation that our long-held dreams have somehow dissipated into a purgatory with no obvious direct…
“Listen… Yes! That's the sound of a hit! It's a hit!” In the original 1981 production of Merrily We Roll Along, these Sondheim lyrics must have echoed hollowly on Broadway as i…
Prior to seeing the show, it would be easy to confuse Boy Meets Boy at the Jermyn Street Theatre for something it's not. The musical, with a central plot about a gay romance in the 1930s, is…
