Bathhouse! the Musical
Warning: this production contains steam, brief nudity and lots of bubbles! An evening spent watching half naked men prance around a stage sounds beyond fabulous to me, especially as Above the Stag is such a welcoming theatre. Innocent Billy (Ryan Lynch) heads to the ‘friendly neighbourhood bathhouse’ looking for love, but he soon realises that […]
Café Society Swing
Café Society Swing, a musical show based on the story of the Café Society jazz club, is playing for a limited time at Leicester Square Theatre until Saturday 21st June 2014. Café Society, which opened in New York in 1938, was the first racially desegregated club in the city. Advertised as “the wrong place for […]
Can money buy you theatrical happiness?
I am privileged to be invited to a lot of shows for free these days and often I am sat in the best seats. When this happens I always look around me and wonder how much other people have paid for their tickets. £60, £80, maybe even over £100. And what does that money buy […]
The Pajama Game
Following a sold out run at the Chichester Festival, Richard Adler’s The Pajama Game transferred into London’s Shaftesbury Theatre last month for a limited run (until 7 September). Michael Xavier and Joanna Riding are the perfect pairing to play the lead roles of Sid Sorokin and Babe Williams. They bounce off of each other with […]
Ghosts (screening) – Empire Cinema
Richard Eyre’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts was extremely well-received, selling out at the Almeida, transferring to Trafalgar Studios and winning three Oliviers. In Ghosts, a mother must face the truth about her husband’s past and come to terms with her son’s future… But would you go to the cinema to see a play? This […]
Moominsummer Madness
There is something adorable about the vulnerability of children. When the lights went out at the start of Moominsummer Madness at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, a little girl turned to her father and asked “where has the sun gone daddy?” The Polka Theatre is full of old chrildrens toys. Rocking horses and dressing up […]
House Of Burlesque
Watching the House of Burlesque is like looking at an open box of delicious chocolates. A little voice whispers, “Go on, no one’s watching, have a tempting morsel.” “Oh no!”, you cry. “I couldn’t possibly watch these decadent ladies saunter about the stage!” But resistance is futile. Miss Tempest Rose and her delectable ladies are […]
Privates on Parade
Currently playing at Greenwich Theatre as part of the ‘Peter Nichols Season’, Privates on Parade presents a unique view of military life; combining forceful masculinity with camp ebullience. Drawn from Nichols’ own experience of his time in the Combined Services Entertainment, a war-time troupe deployed to boost the troops’ morale, this play first and foremost […]
Black Cat Cabaret – London’s Wonderground
Circus, burlesque and cabaret have been delighting audiences for years with their tricks, risks and risqué behaviour. In a world of special effects and multimedia, people still want to see the impossible become possible. Inspired by the Montmartre of the 1920s, the Black Cat cabaret aims to combine dancers, acrobats, singers and comics for their […]
MORE CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR MADE IN DAGENHAM
NEW MUSICAL PARKS UP AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE THIS OCTOBER · GEMMA ARTERTON LEADS CAST IN ROLE OF RITA · STEVE FURST, MARK HADFIELD & SOPHIE-LOUISE DANN JOIN MULTI-AWARD WINNING RUPERT GOOLD’S NEW PRODUCTION · BOOK BY RICHARD BEAN, MUSIC FROM DAVID ARNOLD & LYRICS BY RICHARD THOMAS Stage Entertainment, Glass Half Full Productions and […]