Christmas Stagey Gift Guide
I’ve put together this Christmas Stagey Gift Guide which supports small businesses at the same time as being amazingly stagey. Clothing: Theatre Shop The Theatre Shop has loads of great stocking fillers for your stagey gift recipients. With everything from a Heathers mug (be careful what you put in it!!) for £10 to Chicago t-shirts […]
Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Orchard Theatre
Bedknobs and Broomsticks has flown into Dartford and it has cast a spell of delightful magic over the Orchard Theatre. I should probably start this review with a confession….I have not seen the film! I therefore went into this show not knowing what to expect but I left feeling I had experienced the magic of […]
Chicago at The Churchill Theatre
Chicago has hit Bromley and if the packed house was anything to go by, they were thrilled to have this musical in their home town. Chicago tells of the merry murderesses of Cook County Jail and in particular Roxie Hart who killed her lover as he was trying to leave her and Velma Kelly who […]
The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Live at The Troxy
Lockdown may have been awful for more reasons than I care to list but one thing I got out of lockdown was the appreciation of Ru Paul’s Drag Race. I set myself the task of watching all RuPaul Drag Race series, including All Stars, therefore whilst everyone else may have discovered Jinkx in 2013 and […]
Dirty Dancing at The Orchard Theatre
I am going to preface this review by letting you know that I am not a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I’ve seen it numerous times of course what 40 something woman who loves dancing hasn’t? But I am certainly no superfan and this is not a show I would ordinarily choose to go and see. I […]
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike – Charing Cross Theatre Theatre
Premiered in 2012 and a Tony award winner in 2013, it seems extraordinary that, even allowing for Covid delay, it has taken so long for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike to reach London via a first outing in Bath in 2019. Although characters and themes are lifted liberally and affectionately from Anton Chekhov, […]
The Cat and The Canary at The Churchill Theatre
The Cat and the Canary is a murder mystery thriller which revolves around the 6 descendants of Mr West, gathering on the 20 year anniversary of his death to find out who will inherit his large estate. When the heir is unveiled a series of events is set in motion, but all is not what […]
Six The Musical at Vaudeville Theatre
The Queens have a new Palace….well actually theatre. With Six’s journey starting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, then the Arts Theatre, an abated drive in and after a temporary home at the Lyric Theatre they have now found their permanent home in the West End. I took a trip to where Six is now holding […]
Groan Ups at The Orchard Theatre
Groan Ups is the latest offering from Mischief Comedy, the same group that brought you The Play That Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and more. Groan Ups is however a slight departure from their normal farce and instead looks at a group of classmates at 3 different ages, […]
The Battersea Poltergeist – Live
The Battersea Poltergeist is is BBC Radio 4 podcast hit that has been streamed millions of times. It mixed documentary with drama as it told the true story of a haunting that began in 1956 and spanned for 12 years. The Battersea Poltergeist – Live is from the team behind the podcast as they delve […]