“I won’t leave until you don’t need me anymore.” Max Porter’s prize-winning, bestselling debut novel is brought vividly to life by Enda Walsh’s visionary adaptation of a portrait of a man’s struggle with grief in the aftermath of his wife’s sudden death. When Dad (Cillian Murphy, Inception and Peaky Blinders) loses his wife in a sudden tragic accident, he has an
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Bobbie, a professionally successful, serially single New Yorker is turning 35. As her closest, married friends gather at her apartment for a party, she begins to question whether she really does have it all. Company is back in the West End. Only this time, it’s back with a twist. Nearly 50 years after its Broadway debut, Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 introspective meditation
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Come From Away is the latest Broadway hit that is now taking London by storm. It tells the true story of those that were forced to land in Gander, a small remote town of only 7,000 inhabitants on 9/11. It tells the tale of both the plane people who came from across the world as well as the islanders who
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On the face of it, a play about the wartime flight of the majority of Denmark’s Jewish population across to Sweden suggests a balance tipped in favour of worthy theatre as opposed to escapist entertainment. Less than comfortable seats (a complaint shared by neighbouring audience members) did nothing to ease a sense of foreboding. Any misgivings were however completely confounded
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I hate Panto. Oh Yes I do…..or maybe I don’t.Tonight’s performance of Aladdin at The Orchard Theatre changed my outdated and somewhat jaded perception of pantomime and everything surrounding it. Admittedly I haven’t seen a full scale theatrical pantomime since I performed in one in the 80’S (in a strange twist of fate at The Orchard too) where I was
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A Christmas Carol by LMTO The story of A Christmas Carol needs no introduction, a festive favourite with music by Alan Menken and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Performed by London Musical Theatre Orchestra and some big Musical Theatre singers in concert format, this was a night I had been looking forward to for a while. LMTO really excelled themselves with
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Plaid Tidings at Bridge House Theatre If your Christmas spirit levels are low, or you’re not feeling quite full to the brim of holiday cheer, a trip to see Plaid Tidings is the perfect remedy for you. Bridge House Theatre have a reputation for picking the cream of the Christmas crop, and this show is no deviation from their pattern
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Private Peaceful at the Orchard Theatre Private Peaceful arrived at The Orchard Theatre in Dartford as part of it’s UK Tour with perfect timing in the lead up to Remembrance Day and the 100th year anniversary of the end of world war 1 and wow! What a way to remember. This dynamic revival following its highly successful run at the
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The Trench by Les Enfants Terribles at Southwark Playhouse The Trench is a play written and directed by Oliver Lansley. It is inspired by the true story of William Hackett, a miner who was awarded the Victoria Cross. Whilst he was tunnelling towards enemy lines an explosion cut off William Hackett from the rest of the world. In the Trench
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Camelot by LMTO at the London Palladium Camelot is one of those musicals I’ve always heard mentioned but I’ve never seen it or really heard any music from it. I was therefore delighted to be given a chance to discover it with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra (LMTO) and a stellar line up of soloists at the London Palladium. Camelot
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