My Neighbour Totoro review
Nothing can prepare you for the first appearance of Totoro. The awe-inspiring scale and detail with which the titular forest spirit is brought to life on stage at the Barbican Theatre elicits gasps and chuckles of unbridled joy from the entire crowd. Every twitch of his whiskers and blink of his...
The Time Traveller's Wife review
It seems the West End is currently awash with time-travel stories. The classic 80s movie Back to the Future opened as a musical recently, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with a story centring around the time-turner – a magical device used for time travel – is still going strong. So,...
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical review
The new West End show, Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, is so much more than just a celebration of reggae legend Bob Marley’s music. It’s also a heart-warming and fascinating look at formative moments of his life that made him the man he was when he met his untimely death aged just...
The Mirror and the Light review
The Mirror and the Light is the final chapter of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, and its stage adaptation has stormed the West End this autumn. The play does not disappoint, much like its previous two instalments, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, as it tells the gripping and fast-paced...
Pretty Woman: The Musical review
The popular romcom ‘Pretty Woman’ starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere was recently transformed from movie to musical, and has reopened at the Savoy Theatre, much to the delight of fans of the film. A billionaire businessman meets a prostitute, turns her into a high-class escort for a week...
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical review
Whether you’re a fan of her music or not, it’s impossible not to be left mesmerised by the talented cast of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. After being closed for over a year, Tina has recently opened its doors to an eager audience waiting to get back into theatreland, and it feels as though...
The Mousetrap review
London Dungeon, Madame Tussaud’s, St. Paul’s Cathedral…Like countless other London residents, these are just a handful of the tourist attractions I have never visited, despite passing them on an almost weekly basis. For the whole time I have lived here, I have put The Mousetrap in the same...
Come From Away review
Come From Away has recently celebrated its first year in London’s West End and welcomed a host of new cast members to the Rock. On the surface this may be described as ‘a musical about 9/11’ - that doesn’t exactly sound like an enjoyable way to spend an evening, right? Well, although this...
The Prince of Egypt review
Movie adaptations seem such a biblical plague upon the West End that it can be difficult to be excited when another one arrives. Considering the last example I saw at the Dominion Theatre was BIG: The Musical, I can be forgiven for a little scepticism when I walked into The Prince of Egypt. I was...
Waitress review
As Sara Bareilles belted out the heart-wrenching final note of ‘She Used to Be Mine’, the audience instinctively sprung to their feet in enthusiastic applause. She had just proved that her voice was the true star of the show, Waitress, resident at the Adelphi Theatre. Alongside her is Gavin...
