Moonlight / Night School review
Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter at the Pinter season has been serving up the late playwright’s works in complimentary palettes: grouped by themes of memory, for example, or politics. If there’s a link between Moonlight and Night School, the pair of plays that make up Pinter Four, perhaps it’s the...
Landscape/A Kind of Alaska review
Pinter at the Pinter season is in full swing with the third selection of plays, Landscape / A Kind of Alaska / Monologue currently showing at the theatre named after the celebrated playwright. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Harold Pinter’s death, director Jamie Lloyd has expertly used all...
The Wipers Times review
100 years after the end of WWI, Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s comedy The Wipers Times returns to the West End’s Arts Theatre to cap off its UK tour. This is the muddy, mirthful, based-on-real-life tale of a squad of soldiers stationed in Ypres, Belgium; while bombs fall and German soldiers sing...
Company review
Bobbie’s turning 35 and she’s at that stage in her life where all her friends are married, or about to get married, so she must be getting ready to settle down herself right? Right?! That’s the basic premise of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company and even though it was written nearly 50...
School of Rock the Musical review
If you sit in the Gillian Lynne Theatre and close your eyes for just a moment, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was the real Jack Black on the stage - you know, the one from the film. It may not be Jack Black himself, but Craig Gallivan, who plays the character of Dewey Finn, is every inch as...
The Lover / The Collection review
Those intent on attending every play in the Pinter at the Pinter season will relish The Lover/The Collection as a very watchable, relatively light and quick-paced pair of comedies, showcasing the playwright’s playful sense of the absurd. This complementary doublet has plenty to say on sex, game...
Eugenius! review
A universal message of self belief, a winsome 80s aesthetic, a highly hummable score: Eugenius! has a lot going for it. The new musical directed by Olivier Award-nominated Ian Talbot enjoyed a successful run at The Other Palace and now returns to the same venue with new casting, a tightened script...
Heathers The Musical review
If you took all the American high school cult films such as Mean Girls and Clueless, hacked off their smooth edges with a rusty razor blade and stitched the whole glorious mess through with powerhouse songs, you'd have Heathers The Musical. This darkly hilarious show charts the rise of Westerberg...
Strictly Ballroom review
Every so often, a show arrives in the West End that is simply heaps of fun. That’s what Drew McOnie’s reworking of his 2016 adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom is; a sweeping, gaudy, bright and outright hilarious couple of hours of entertainment. Pairing his signature stylish...
The Jungle review
You’d be forgiven for expecting The Jungle, Good Chance Theatre's immersive play about the Calais refugee camp, to be a bleak and miserable affair. Inspired by real people and events from within the encampment and interspersed with all-too-familiar news footage, it’s a truthful account. Yet the...
