The Kite Runner review
Anyone looking for an uplifting evening at the theatre should steer clear of London’s Playhouse Theatre at the moment. The Kite Runner is a far cry from the cheerful and upbeat spectacles at other West End theatres, but it is certainly a show worth seeing. It might be decidedly depressing, but...
Tape Face review
After a sold-out Las Vegas season and a well-documented stint on America's Got Talent that culminated in viral success, comedian-come-mime artist Tape Face brings his new show to the West End. Set within a dilapidated dressing room on the Garrick stage, the show is literally what it says on the...
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Originally premiering on Broadway in 1944, On the Town is Leonard Bernstein's seminal musical that preceded his better known dance-heavy extravaganza West Side Story. Much like the latter, it's received various revivals, including Drew McOnie's latest outing at Regent's Park Open Air...
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour review
It's easy to recall school trips; sitting at the back of the bus secretly swigging Coca-Cola whilst rolling up blazer sleeves to show off your latest shag bands. But the Catholic schoolgirls of the fictitious convent school in Oban have an altogether different idea. This is Our Ladies of Perpetual...
Love in Idleness review
After a sold-out season at the ever-popular Menier Chocolate Factory, Terence Rattigan’s drawing-room drama and wartime comedy Love in Idleness moves over to the Apollo Theatre. It’s a different performance space; less intimate and subsequently less forgiving, but the play still manages to...
42nd Street review
In the heart of little old London, you'll find one of Broadway's biggest musicals donning its tap shoes at one of the West End's biggest theatres. Mark Bramble once again directs 42nd Street, for which he received a Tony Award for reviving in 2001. It's a bigger, glitzier and much more outrageous...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review
There’s something irrationally irresistible about Edward Albee’s blistering play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which makes any marital dispute dim in comparison. Packed full of punch, both literally and figuratively, the play is the perfect star vehicle, in this case driven by powerhouse...
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Translating a play - particularly a comedy - into any language is tricky. The translation must not only be understood literally, but also interpreted as the author intended for their own native audience. Starring Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack and Mathew Horne, hopes were high in this comedic revival...
Stepping Out review
There’s something exciting about a group of women leading their own play in the West End; Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is receiving an anticipated transfer and we’ve recently seen the stellar all-female Donmar Shakespeare season. It only makes sense that Stepping Out would be equally...
Travesties review
“It may be nonsense” says famous founder of Dadaism, Tristan Tzara, and for the most part, it could be. But there's something undeniably clever about Tom Stoppard's 1974 play, written in the very early stages of his career. Imaginatively revived by director Patrick Marber, Travesties is the...
