Watch exclusive footage from Gary Barlow’s new theatre production THE GIRLS
Gary Barlow‘s new musical THE GIRLS opened at London’s Phoenix Theatre on Tuesday 21 February 2017 and I was there to check it out! The Girls is a musical based on the true story of a group of women from the Yorkshire Women’s Institute who made a calendar to raise money to buy a couch […]
INTERVIEW: Joe Aaron Reid chats about DREAMGIRLS at the Savoy Theatre
I caught up with Broadway star Joe Aaron Reid who is now starring in the West End production of DreamGirls playing Curtis Taylor Jr. alongside Glee star Amber Riley at the Savoy Theatre. Joe Aaron Reid’s previous credits include Benny in In the Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Stephen in If/Then (Broadway); understudy Willie Lopez in Ghost […]
Theatre Etiquette: The girls who ruined THE GIRLS
Yet another blog about theatre etiquette As I sit down this morning, with a cup of tea, ready to start the day, I should be reflecting on last night’s glorious press night for Gary Barlow’s new musical THE GIRLS. Sadly, I have other things, more pressing on my mind that I need to get off […]
67 year old understudy Judith Street to make her West End debut in THE GIRLS
In spite of intensive medical treatment, Michele Dotrice, who has never missed a performance in her entire career, has been diagnosed with acute bronchitis and therefore unable to perform for the time being. The part of Jessie in Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s new British musical, THE GIRLS, will now be played by Judith Street, […]
Watch MAMMA MIA’s Mazz Murray play KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU
Mazz Murray plays Tanya in Mamma Mia the Musical in London’s West End. I caught up with her in her dressing room backstage at the Novello Theatre to chat about the show. Mazz is known for theatre roles like Patsy Cline in The Roy Orbison Story (UK tour), Lambchops in Fame (first UK tour), Grandma […]
REVIEW: HOW (NOT) TO LIVE IN SUBURBIA (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
HOW (NOT) TO LIVE IN SUBURBIA tells the story of the lonely life of Annie Siddons. Annie is a writer and a single mum, living in suburban Twickenham, who wholeheartedly loves London but just not that particular area. Annie is pathologically lonely and longs to live in a more artistic London enclave. She also has two […]
WICKED star Rachel Tucker set to fly out on an 11 date solo tour
Following a triumphant nine month run on Broadway as lead role ‘Elphaba’ in the smash hit musical Wicked, stage star Rachel Tucker embarks on an eleven date solo tour throughout the UK. Audiences can expect up close and personal performances of musical theatre favourites, along with some classic jazz, soul and a few surprises thrown […]
REVIEW: Flew the Coop (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★
This playful and humorous show is presented by Lost Watch appearing as the RGASC (Rauchbach Greasley Association Society Club), a club that has been set up to ensure that two very special heroes of World War II are not forgotten – Horace Greasley and Rosa Rauchbach. The club consists of only five members who meet […]
REVIEW: LA RONDE (Bunker Theatre) ★★★
London, 2017. Gender and sexuality are fluid and free. It is possible to reinvent yourself with every new sexual encounter. Whatever you’re into, someone out there will be into you. Max Gill’s reworking of La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 classic which for the first 20 years of its life was deemed too explicit for a […]
REVIEW: TRAVESTIES (Apollo Theatre) ★★★
A play set in Zurich 1917 involving James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin surely sounds like a comedy waiting to be told?! Tom Stoppard’s Travesties finds a sense of joy in the most intellectual of conversation. Taking the role of narrator, Tom Hollander plays Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917 as he […]