Thriller – Live
Rating **** Reviewed by Alex Foott Performance date – Thursday 24th October 2013 In a world that is increasingly tolerant of mediocre talent, it is reassuring to behold a celebration of one of the most prodigious entertainers of all time. With a career spanning almost forty years, the pop deity that is Michael Jackson is […]
The Cherry Orchard
Show name: The Cherry Orchard Theatre: Hampstead Parish Church Show website: http://Www.hampsteadplayers.org.uk Show dates: 26th – 30th November 2013 Show description: The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov’s last and greatest play, a wonderful mixture of comedy and pathos, in which lively movement alternates with quiet reflection. It us rooted in pre-Revolutionary Russia, but in its richly […]
Blood Wedding
Rating *** Reviewed by Michaela Clement-Hayes The Courtyard – 23rd October 2013 Surrealism is a word frequently associated with Lorca’s writing and Blood Wedding is no exception. Possibly my favourite of his plays (despite studying it in both Spanish and English), Bodas de sangre is a story that can be interpreted and performed in many […]
Grease 2
Christopher D. Clegg and James DP Drury present THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED WEST END PREMIERE OF THE ORIGINAL HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SEQUEL GREASE 2 IN CONCERT AT THE LYRIC THEATRE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY ON MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2014 Perhaps the greatest sequel ever told (and then set to music); the much loved cult movie musical […]
Hairspray at the Curve
CURVE ANNOUNCES A NEW PRODUCTION OF THE AWARD WINNING MUSICAL HAIRSPRAY MAKING HIS CURVE DEBUT DAVID WITTS PLAYS LINK LARKIN Artistic Director Paul Kerryson today announces a new production of Hairspray, with David Witts as Link Larkin. The production opens on 5 March 2014, with previews from 28 February, and running until 5 April. Join […]
Beauty Queen of Leenane
Rating *** Reviewed by Verity Wilde Curve Leicester, 22nd October 2013 Leicester Curve’s 5th birthday season continues with Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen of Leenane. Maureen Folan is a 40 year old virgin, stuck living with her demanding and manipulative mother, Mags, in the wilds of western Ireland. Maureen tries to grasp her last chance at […]
Vivienne
Rating * Reviewed by Alex Foott October Gallery Thursday 17th October 2013 It is a truly agonising thing to behold a performer who has quite a notable talent when they are tethered to a frankly dismal production. Sadly, this is such a case. While Vivienne is a commendable effort to elevate one of the most […]
The beauty of theatre
One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure (so the saying goes) and this applies to theatre as well. I was recently surprised to read a one star, scathing review of a show I had loved and awarded five stars to. And then the other night I found myself having a conversation with someone, raving about […]
Piff The Magic Dragon
Wilma’s Rating ***** Piff The Magic Dragon enters the stage of the Soho Theatre in a box. Not happy with the response he receives from the audience, he walks off stage and then magically re-appears from the same box in the middle of the stage. At this point you realise you are in for a […]
Charity Theatre Auction
Wilma’s Charity Theatre Auction is back and this time it is going to be bigger and better than ever before! Having previously held online auctions raising money for Cancer Research UK and RSPCA, this Christmas, westendwilma.com is helping raise funds for MAD Trust. MAD Trust have a target of raising £200,000 by 1st January 2014 […]