We Will Rock You By Cygnet Players
We Will Rock you is having its moment in amateur theatre and as someone who is directing one of these productions I was excited to get to see what another amateur company is doing with this show. The show itself is set in the future, where music is banned and living life online is the […]
The Bodyguard at New Wimbledon Theatre
The Bodyguard is possibly known as one of the most iconic love stories in cinema history but how does it translate to stage? The musical, like the film, tells of Rachel Marron who is a star in her prime. Rachel however has a stalker with dangerous intentions. Despite Rachel’s protests a Bodyguard in the form […]
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
There are some shows that come along out of nowhere and capture my heart and/or imagination and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is one of these shows. I haven’t read the book, nor seen the film nor even saw much about it during its run at Chichester Festival Theatre so I went into this […]
American Psycho at the Almeida Theatre
American Psycho as a musical first hit English shores in 2013 as Rupert Goold’s first outing at the Almeida as artistic director and as Goold is set to depart we revisit the musical The show is based on the 1991 novel which went onto inspire the 2000’s film of the same name. It tells of […]
Cable Street at Marylebone Theatre
Cable Street makes its return to London, again. after 2 successful runs at Southwark Playhouse. Having missed the previous iterations I was determined not to miss it this time. The show is set in East London in 1936 in the lead up to the Battle for Cable Street. For those, like myself, unfamiliar with this […]
Jo The Little Women Musical in Concert
When I mention Little Women and musical in the same sentence most people would immediately jump to Sutton Foster belting out ‘Astonishing’ but last night saw something very different and a new production of Jo The Little Women Musical. This new musical focuses on the story of Little Women and tells the adventures of the […]
Jesus Christ Superstar by Centre Stage
Andrew Lloyd Webber seems to be having somewhat of a resurgence at the moment after a stunning summer season at the London Palladium with Evita and with the fastest selling pre-sale in the history of the London Palladium with their 2026 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Centre Stage are riding on the ALW wave with […]
Dreamgirls by Sedos
Dreamgirls is a musical which opened on Broadway in the early 80’s but didn’t come to UK shores until the film in 2006 and the West End production some ten years later in 2016. It tells of a female singing trio called the ‘Dreams’ and follows their rise to success, their friendships and fall outs […]
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
Wow! What a show! We arrived at The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical with zero expectations of what we would see. We hadn’t heard a soundtrack of the show, seen a movie or even read a Percy Jackson book. Yet my eight year old son and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing! In a […]
Hot Mess at Southwark Playhouse (Elephant)
Hot Mess isn’t your typical boy meets girl love story, boy does indeed meet girl but this time girl is Earth and boy is Humanity, making what could be one of the most iconic couplings in history. We meet Earth 66 million years out of her breakup with apex predator t-Rex and she is looking […]