I have just witnessed the definition of a children’s comedy show. Intelligent, hilarious and so brilliantly clever The Showstoppers’ Christmas kids show is now going to mark the start of every Christmas for my family and I (no matter how old the kids get!). Having 4 children and the whole family being from a performing background, we have seen our
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‘Tis the season to be jolly……’ and it certainty is if you have the pleasure of heading to the Dominion Theatre for White Christmas this festive season. White Christmas is based on the Christmas movie of the same name. It tells of Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, two soldiers who have returned home following the war and have made a
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25 years ago, I was 14 years old and playing trombone in the school brass band when everything changed. A school friend handed me a copy of Definitely Maybe and an acoustic guitar and said, “I can show you how to play Live Forever if you want?” And that was that. My whole musical outlook changed almost on the spot
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& Juliet is the newest jukebox musical to hit the West End and it does so in the form of Max Martin’s pop anthems. We meet Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway. Anne is determined to change how Juliet’s story is told so we meet Juliet at Romeo’s deathbed and rather than taking her own life she uses this to
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Ragtime is musical set in 1906 which focuses on people searching for the American dream. From Coalhouse who is determined to win over Sarah and make a life for their family together to Tateh and his daughter, Latvian immigrants who want to make their fortune. We also meet the Family who live in an upper class white neighbourhood who find
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Reputation is a new musical with music and lyrics by Alick Glass and original story by Alick and Suzanne Glass. It tells of a young aspiring writer Michelle Grant who is at deportment school in Paris. Her classmates spot an advert in Variety magazine asking for stories to be submitted for consideration to be turned into screen plays. She submits
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Death of A Salesman is one of those plays that I feel that I really ought to have seen by now, especially when the rave reviews came out from this productions earlier iteration at the Old Vic. Death of A Salesman focuses on the Loman family, Willy and Linda Loman and their 2 sons, Biff and Happy. Whist Willy and
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High Fidelity the musical has hit the UK for the first time. The show is based on the novel by Nick Horby and a recent film starring Jack Black. The film shifted the action to the USA and the original musical followed suit. The creatives behind this show however took o the task of rewriting it to make it relevant
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Soho Cinders is a modern fairy by Stiles and Drewe. Robbie (Luke Bayer) finds himself in love with mayoral candidate James Prince (Lewis Asquith) however Prince is engaged with Marilyn Platt. To add to the complication Robbie has also agreed to attend a fundraising dinner hosted by Lord Bellingham as his date. It all goes wrong when Prince is present
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Celebrating its 30th year of existence, Masquerade Theatre Company is a new group for this reviewer, as is the Miskin Theatre venue (not the easiest to access given the circuitous route to its entrance, direction provided by previously experienced audience members). Only the programme and website acknowledgement of their Kent Drama Awards 2019 give a clue that this is an
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