Six at The Arts Theatre After a sold out run in Edinburgh the Six Queens have hit the Arts Theatre. After seeing the show and loving it in Edinburgh and was keen to see it in London and check that it all wasn’t some musical theatre/pop dream…..luckily it was not and it was everything I had dreamed of and more
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Teletubbies Live at the Orchard Theatre On Wednesday 22nd August I took my very excited almost three year old son and his cousin who is four and a half to see the Teletubbies Live, the Teletubbies first ever theatre show. I was interested to see how this would transition to stage and how engaged the children would be. As we
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Swan Lake by The St Petersburg Ballet Last night I had the pleasure of attending the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of Swan Lake at the London Coliseum. Originally composed by Tchaikovsky and later revised by Lev Ivanov with choreography by Marius Petipa. Swan Lake is a ballet from which most everyone would recognise the main theme and has had
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Lost Voice Guy – Inspiration Porn. Lost Voice Guy needs no introduction, (although I will anyway!) the winner of this years Britain’s Got Talent and adding extra dates to cope with demand during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival his gig is one of the hot tickets of the year. For those of you not familiar with Lost Voice Guy (if such
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Six Six has been one of the shows at the Edinburgh Festival that everyone is talking about, with tickets selling as quickly as haloumi fries extra performances have been added so I was keen to see what the fuss was about. Six tells the story of Henry the 8ths’ six wives as they regale the audience with their side of
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Blackout: What does the blurb say about Blackout: Blackouts were the worst. Blackouts made me forget… Thank God for blackouts.’ Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. The man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen. The mother who almost beats her son to death in a drunken rage. Blackout is the
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My Left/Right Foot – The Musical. As the blurb says, My Left/Right Foot tells of the local am-dram society who is under pressure to comply with the equalities agenda. They come up with a cunning plan to create a gripping show starring ‘the disabled’. What could be better than the Oscar-winning ‘My Left Foot’? The only snag is they’re having
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Schism at Park Theatre Failed architect Harrison had plans to end his life. The last thing he needed was Katherine, a young student, breaking into his house begging for his help… As their chaotic first encounter turns into the beginning of a twenty year relationship, the unlikely couple grow to realise that they are capable of either building something great
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Sunset Boulevard at New Wimbledon Theatre Sunset Boulevard is one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hits that tells of Norma Desmond a forgotten silent movie star. One night Joe Gillis, an out of work writer, turns up at her door. After convincing him to assist her with a script she has been working on, Desmond soon begins to manipulate him. Before long and
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Hamilton: Hamilton is the biggest show to hit the West End since……. well possibly since Wicked! Tickets sold out within moments but I was lucky enough to be able to snap up 2for press night! Hamilton tells the story of one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Born in the Caribbean he made his way to America to make his
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