REVIEW: Club Tropicana The Musical (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★
Club Tropicana The Musical is a new jukebox musical by Michael Gyngell. With a soundtrack of pop songs performed live on stage. Club Tropicana is described as ‘a summer adventure of love in the sun. It takes a fun-packed trip back in time to the electric 80’s when hair was big, shoulders were padded, girls […]
REVIEW: TWELFTH NIGHT (The Rose Playhouse) ★★★
When The Great Gatsby, Titanic and Capital FM are put into a room together you get OVO’s Twelfth Night. The Rose Playhouse was home to the 1920s jazzy version of the Shakespearean comedy on board the SS Illyria. Director Adam Nichols’ strength lies in the sheer fluidity of the Shakespearean English used. Each actor understood […]
Rylan Clark-Neal to star in NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL this Christmas
The producers of the smash-hit ‘NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL’, are thrilled to announce Rylan Clark-Neal as ‘The Critic’ alongside the previous announced Simon Lipkin as ‘Mr Poppy’, when the show returns to The Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith for its third year from 11 to 29 December 2019. Further star casting to be announced! Rylan Clark-Neal exploded on […]
REVIEW: AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
Ain’t Misbehavin’ is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby Jr and music by various composers and lyricists celebrating black musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. The show was so popular when it first appeared in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s East 73rd Street cabaret in 1978 that a full-scale Broadway […]
Why do some musicals thrive, whilst others struggle to survive?
Two hugely anticipated Broadway, smash hit shows, Waitress and Come From Away have transferred to London’s West End this year but whilst one is selling out night after night, the other looks to be struggling and it makes me wonder why? What makes a show a success? Come From Away at the Phoenix Theatre began […]
BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL set to make the earth move around the UK once again
Following a highly successful West End run/a run of two and a half years in the West End and a sell-out tour in 2017/18, the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL will hit the road again and tour throughout the UK and Ireland in 2020, opening at the Churchill Theatre […]
REVIEW: SWEET CHARITY (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★
New York, 1967. Charity Hope Valentine is a dance hall hostess who “runs her heart like a hotel – you’ve got men checking in and out all the time.” At the raw end of a long line of users and losers, she meets Oscar, a mild-mannered tax accountant, and Charity Hope Valentine once again puts […]
REVIEW: OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★
Other People’s Money, directed by Katharine Farmer, has come to Southwark Playhouse. The play, written by Jerry Sterner in 1989, shows the greed and excesses of Wall Street in the 1980s by pitting it against a small town family business. When it opened off-Broadway it won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play; […]
REVIEW: THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (Royal & Derngate) ★★★★
Crime. Punishment. Murder. Revenge. Today’s readers grasp at topics such as these, devouring book after book to fuel their blood lust. These gory thrillers, now ubiquitous on Amazon, keep us entertained. Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train was the book everyone was reading. Mystery and marriage breakdowns in suburbia. But with a book so […]
Open auditions to be held for the London production of MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY
Open Auditions will be held on Thursday 2 May 2019 for one of the lead roles in MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY at London’s O2.. The exciting new immersive theatrical dining experience will begin performances in London from 29 August 2019. MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY is an immersive entertainment and dinner experience produced by Björn Ulvaeus, an original […]