BWW Review: TAPE FACE, Garrick Theatre
Almost two and a half hours in a theatre with no talking. You might think you're at the ballet and you may be, given one of the skits. Returning to the London stage, Sam Wills dons his signa…
Almost two and a half hours in a theatre with no talking. You might think you're at the ballet and you may be, given one of the skits. Returning to the London stage, Sam Wills dons his signa…
It's an odd thing to say that one of my favourite musical songs is one which makes me cry. Even odder, in fact, that it's one which I couldn't bear to listen to for almost a year...
The Menier Chocolate Factory is no stranger to transfers, both in the West End and beyond. The Color Purple notably made the jump, and now here's Trevor Nunn's Love in Idleness moving to the…
After an absence of almost a decade, tick, tickBOOM bursts back onto the London stage at the Park Theatre. There's plenty of energy, a natural spark among the three leads, but little emotion…
Written by Bertolt Brecht during World War II, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui serves as a parable for Adolf Hitler. Germany becomes Chicago, Hitler becomes gangster Arturo Ui, as we witnes…
Literally translated, La Cage aux Follesmeans 'the cage of mad women'. This seems an apt description for the characters and audience alike in Martin Connor's latest production. Funny and fli…
Billed as the 'little theatre with big ideas', The Hope Theatre is a transformative space. This year alone, it's been everything from a hospital waiting room to a post-apocalyptic bunker. Au…
Jukebox musicals seem to be as popular as ever in the West End, using familiar songs to tell stories on stage.Mamma Mia iscoming close to two decades in London, and newcomers likeMotown the …
Over the next six years, the RSC aims to produce every single Shakespeare play. Its 2016 season features Cymbeline, one of the lesser known but not lesser performed plays this production is …
This summer, I decided to do something either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid: a last minute trip to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And if that wasn’t brave/stupid enough, I a…