REVIEW: SLAVA’s SNOW SHOW (Royal Festival Hall)
This wasn’t my first trip to see Slava’s Snow Show (which has played the last five Christmas seasons in London) but I can’t say I have any more idea what it was all about the second time around either! It’s weird, whacky and endearing with clowns wandering around the stage for an hour and a […]
REVIEW: GOODNIGHT MR TOM (Duke of Yorks Theatre)
In 1981, a children’s book called Goodnight Mr Tom was published and became a well loved classic amongst adults and children with its heartbreaking story of love, abuse and loss of lives during World War II. In 1998 a television adaption was made starring John Thaw which has now become a well loved Christmas classic […]
Behind the scenes at Grey Gardens starring Jenna Russell and Sheila Hancock
The eagerly awaited European première of the Broadway musical Grey Gardens, is based on an iconic 1975 documentary, telling the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale. Grey Gardens, with Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie, is produced […]
PIAF extends its London run by one week and celebrates Edith Piaf’s 100th birthday
The critically acclaimed production of Pam Gems’ Piaf, telling the extraordinary life of Edith Piaf, and featuring 17 of her iconic songs including Hymne à l’amour, La Vie En Rose, Millord and her signature tune Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, is to extend its run at London’s Charing Cross Theatre for a further week. Piaf […]
Joey from WAR HORSE visits London Children’s Hospital
Members of the cast of the National Theatre’s production of War Horse made a special visit to Evelina London Children’s Hospital, on the site of St Thomas’ Hospital (Wednesday 16 December at 1.30pm.) The visit marks the screening of NT Live’s filmed version of the multi-award winning production of War Horse at the MediCinema at […]
Cast announced for BILLY ELLIOT UK & Ireland Tour
The producers of the multi award-winning smash hit Billy Elliot the Musical are delighted to announce adult casting for the first ever UK and Ireland tour opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on Wednesday 24 February 2016. Annette McLaughlin will play Mrs Wilkinson, Martin Walsh ‘Dad’, Scott Garnham ‘Tony’ and Andrea Miller ‘Grandma’. Annette McLaughlin’s many West End musical theatre credits […]
INTERVIEW: Cassidy Janson (Beautiful) has Tea With Wilma
For anyone who may not be familiar with your work, can you give me an run down of some of your career highlights so far? Sure! I was in the Original London Cast Of Wicked and played stand by Elphaba. Just before that I was in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s first musical Tick Tick …. BOOM! with […]
REVIEW: THE WASP (Trafalgar Studios)
The Hampstead Theatre has, for a long time, offered some exciting programs of writing both new and old, marked by regular West End transfers. A succession of recent transfers from The Hampstead Theatre Downstairs to Trafalgar Studios includes James Fritz’s Four Minutes Twelve Seconds and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s The Wasp, with the most recent announcement […]
REVIEW: PRIDE & PREJUDICE: THE PANTO (Cockpit Theatre)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” You might say that I’m slightly obsessed with Pride and Prejudice. It’s my favourite book, I adore the BBC version and only a few weeks ago I played Jane in the play. […]
BLOG: Top Ten Shows I’m looking forward to seeing in 2016
Hand To God Vaudeville Theatre 5 February – 11 June 2016 Buy tickets here One dead father, one messed up family, one girl who just wants to help, one school bully who always gets his own way, one man of the church offering comfort, and one hand puppet who is completely out of control – He’s […]