Stereophonic has arrived in London following a huge amount of critical acclaim in New York, including the title of being the most Tony award nominated play of all times and winning the Tony itself for best new play along with a Drama Desk award and many other awards. I was therefore thrilled to hear it was making its way to
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I consider myself a huge Sondheim fan, but for one reason or another, I had never managed to attend the annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition. This was the 17th year of the competition hosted by the Stephen Sondheim Society, itself now over 30 years old. Held appropriately at the Sondheim Theatre, my anticipation and expectations
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Bridge Theatre after what feels like a mere blink of an eye but in reality is 6 years! I missed it back in 2019 so I was determined not to let that happen this time. Shakespeare’s play transports us to a world of fairies and lovers and the Bridge Theatre is transformed into
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A story of inter-weaving plots that skip through time and sinister happenings, ‘The Croft’ is not a play for the faint of heart. This story covers a multitude of themes from discovering your sexuality, spiritual beliefs, the significance of family and the overwhelm of grief. It’s important to note that there are hints and themes around suicide and cancer, should
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Up until last night I felt that I had a gaping hole in my viewing history having never seen (or even read) An Inspector Calls. A play that is still being studied now and discussed in classrooms seems like a glaring omission so I was delighted to be able to put it right. If, like me, you have never seen
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The Frogs is one of Stephen Sondheim’s lesser known works and I was keen to discover if there was a reason for this and if so how this latest production of the work at Southwark Playhouse tackled it. The premise of the show is that the time is the present and the location is Ancient Greece….and the ludicrously of the
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I feel like both the Percy Jackson books and films have passed me as a millennial with no children so I may have been what felt like one of the few people in the audience who had no idea what to expect. For those like me who have let the Percy Jackson world pass them by allow me to explain.
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Radiant Boy is a new piece of work by writer Nancy Netherwood. It tells of Russell who has returned to his mother in the North East from a conservatoire in London as ‘its started happening again.’ Whilst we never find out exactly what ‘it’ is but we do learn that his mother, Maud’s approach to the problem is to hire
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The Great Gatsby has to be one of the most polarising shows out at the moment – from 1 star through to 5 star reviews so I couldn’t help myself but to see what I would make of it and where I would land. For those of you (like me) who haven’t read the book or even seen the film,
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The Empire Strips Back transports London audience to a galaxy far far away to a world where the Star Wars characters you know and love are live on stage…performing burlesque. Throughout the show we meet iconic Star Wars characters from Luke Skywalker to Jabba The Hut and from Princess Leia through to Storm Troopers this production knew how to turn
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