A Strange Loop is one of those shows that I had heard a lot about yet I knew very little however the overwhelming consensus was that I needed to see it, so despite being rather late for the party I got myself along to the Barbican before the show closed. In A Strange Loop we meet Usher, a black, queer,
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It seems like there were 2 kinds of people at the London Palladium last night, those that have heard of Death Note and its huge following originating in Manga and those like me who wanted to see what Frank Wildhorn and his team had come up with. For those like me who don’t know much about the show or it’s
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Theatre Camp is a new mockumentary film that is a love letter to all of us who instead of hanging around in parks or at sleepovers instead spent time at drama club, choir rehearsal and dance classes. The movie follows a theatre camp called AdirondACTS but as founder Joan falls into a coma it is left to her son Troy
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Annie Get Your Gun is the inaugural show at the new open air Lavender Theatre in Epsom. Annie Get Your Gun is a classic show that most musical theatre lovers have seen thanks to the film from the 1950’s but somehow it has passed me by so not only was I looking forward to checking out a new theatre but
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Diary of a Gay Disaster is billed as a new musical comedy which celebrates queer women and it is a show which lives up to its billing and more. Within the show we meet flatmates Mia and Finlay who are looking to welcome Ellis to their home. When Ellis arrives they soon discover her diary and after some convincing they
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Groundhog Day is a musical based on the 1993 film of the same name. Following rave reviews in London in 2016 and a Broadway run in 2017 this musical has returned to the Old Vic and I decided to see what all the fuss was about. The show follows Phil Connors, an arrogant TV weatherman who is sent to small
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Fisherman’s Friends is the musical about the most unlikely of topics, a group of men from Cornwall singing Sea Shanties! The show is set in a small Cornish village where community is the priority and outsiders are treated with distain. This all changes when Danny arrives, determined to get back into A&R he convinces the small group of singers that
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F**king Men is a play which looks at 10 erotic encounters between men. The play by Joe DiPietro first opened in 2009 but in this version he has modernised it so that it reflects today’s gay culture. With reference to gender identify, Grindr, PrEP and OnlyFans the update has been successful and the play fees very relevant. Whilst all of
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Families finding it difficult to put a decent meal on the table, town councillors lining their own pockets and an imminent Royal Occasion could indicate Britain today, but this is in fact the post-war Britain of 1947 magically conjured to life in the production of Betty Blue Eyes at the Union Theatre. The war has ended but Britain’s citizens are
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Witness for the Prosecution is the Agatha Christie play that tells of Leonard Vole who is accused of murder, a capital charge. The victim s an older wealthy woman he has befriended, the housekeeper heard his voice moments before her Mistresses death and he is set to inherit her fortune. His only alibi is his wife, Romaine Vole who his
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