Two-time Olivier Award winner David Bedella joins the cast of & JULIET
Two-time Olivier Award winner David Bedella is to join the cast of & Juliet. The joyous new West End musical, that imagines Juliet’s famous ending as just her beginning, today makes its London launch and is thrilled to announced that Bedella, widely acclaimed for a stage career which includes Olivier Awards for his starring roles […]
REVIEW: FULL MONTY (Wimbledon New Theatre) ★★★★
Attending the press night of Simon Beaufoy‘s award winning play (based on his own screenplay), the well loved multi Bafta award winning 1997 film was an hilarious event, not least for the reactions and heckling of the mostly 50 something hormonal women baying for the talented cast’s inevitable striptease..egged on good naturedly by TV heartthrob […]
REVIEW: WEST END EUROVISION 2019 (Adelphi Theatre) ★★★★★
Staged for the first time in the rather lovely Adelphi Theatre, West End Eurovision has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for MAD Trust and its ninth year event did not disappoint. The Make A Difference Trust works tirelessly to support HIV and AIDS related projects in both the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa; as the Chair of […]
BARE: A POP OPERA returns to London for 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Riots
It is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and issues such as repression, rejection and suicide remain major topics that need to be tackled and further highlighted. Following a group of high school seniors navigating drugs, sex and queer identity at a Catholic boarding school, Bare: A Pop Opera is an explosive rock opera […]
THE WEST END FLEA MARKET comes to London
Theatrical charity, Acting for Others today announce Christopher Biggins as head judge, alongside Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson for the inaugural West End Flea Market taking place on the morning of Saturday 18 May at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden. They will take to the market to judge the competitions for the Best Dressed Stall […]
Full cast announced for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! at Chichister Festival Theatre
Full cast has been announced to join Josie Lawrence in Oklahoma! at the Chichister Festival Theatre 15 July – 7 September 2019. Handsome cowboy Curly McLain is head over spurs for farm owner Laurey Williams. But lonely ranch-hand Jud Fry has his sinister sights set on her too. And Laurey’s not the only girl with […]
REVIEW: Shit Faced Shakespeare – Taming Of The Shrew (Leicester Square Theatre) ★★★★
If you’d told me that after three years of intense training at drama school, and after revising a Shakespearian script, character development and weeks of rehearsals that I must now consume about three quarters of a bottle of gin and perform to a live audience, there is no way I would assume it would go […]
Dream casting for DEAR EVAN HANSEN
The London production of Dear Evan Hansen will begin previews at the Noël Coward Theatre on Tuesday 29 October 2019. The winner of six Tony awards including Best Musical, features music by composers of The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was […]
REVIEW: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Richmond Theatre) ★★★★
Tilted Wig Productions present a new take on Oscar Wilde’s infamous and only novel, currently touring the country. We are first introduced to Dorian Gray, our orphaned anti-hero, via the characters of Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton. Basil (Daniel Goode) is a skilled painter, currently subdued with the task of finishing a painting of […]
REVIEW: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Rose Theatre Kingston) ★★★★★
Louis de Bernieres’s 1994 novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, runs to over 500 pages, divided into over 70 chapters and became a two-hour movie in 2001. So the ambitious challenge for stage adapter Rona Munro and director Melly Still, is how to tell the story which spans about fifty years of life on the Greek island […]