REVIEW: MISS NIGHTINGALE (The Vaults) ★★★★
The fifth production of Miss Nightingale since its conception in 2011 and has set up home at The Vaults in Waterloo. The venue could not be more perfect for a war-time musical where bombs are dropping in the streets. The old vaults with bare brick walls and cold musky smell, make you feel like you […]
My 2016 Theatre Highlights
Last week I took a look back at the shows I said I was looking forward to seeing in 2016 and what I actually thought of them in the end. Now it is time for the obligatory end of year round up of my favourite shows from 2016. It will be unsurprising for you to […]
Wilma’s Top Ten Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shows
REVIEW: RAINBOW CLASS (Assembly Hall) ★★★★★ Vivienne Acheampong (The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time) draws on her past experience of being a primary school teacher in this one woman comedy sketch show which is playing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. Rainbow Class is one of the best things I saw […]
REVIEW: TAMAR BROADBENT: GET UGLY (Espionage) ★★★★★
If Tamar Broadbent has noticed her YouTube hits spike dramatically over the past few weeks, then that will be have been me binge-watching the music video to her comedy song “The Tube Ride of Shame”. Tamar is a musical comedian who recently shared a bill with the excellent Four Femmes on the Thames at the […]
REVIEW: MS. THE SONGBOOK (Tabard Theatre)
Ms. The Songbook is an exciting new song cycle album conceived by lyricist Rory Sherman in support of The MS Society UK. Sherman has worked with an array of international musical theatre composers to create the album based on blogs, interviews and meetings with women living with multiple sclerosis. Produced and directed by Simon Greif […]