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Jamie Lloyd has become known for a stark grey and black palette, so it is a relief to find that he has now discovered the colour pink. His last foray into Shakespeare, The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver, suffered from drabness and a lack of clarity. Much Ado About Nothing could not be further from drab…
Scissorhandz at the Southwark Playhouse presents a musical take on a much-loved story, raising the question of whether a tale that has already been so effectively told actually needs another re-invention. There are some real strengths and flair in this production but it felt muddled in what genre it was trying to be which lessened…
With stars Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg in the lead, Ghost was the highest grossing film of 1990 and the iconic pottery scene remains legendary and much-loved. Premiering in Manchester in 2011, Ghost the musical brings the beloved film back to life with The Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody peppered throughout alongside original songs…
Infused with 20 fabulous songs from Duke Ellington, Play On! at the Lyric Hammersmith reimagines Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in a 1940s Harlem jazz club. It is a thoroughly energetic and enjoyable show which, equally, does not shy away from exposing issues of race and sexism. Play On! originally premiered in the US in 1996 and…
With three Olivier Awards and six WhatsOnStage Awards it is only right that &Juliet has another outing for the sake of both new and faithful audiences . The New Wimbledon Theatre is currently hosting the London leg of a touring version which loses none of what made the West End version such an energetic, camp, funny and uplifting…
Newly released photos give a taster of the treats to come as Sadler’s Wells opens its new facility in Stratford. Over 20,000 tickets, 50% of all tickets across the Sadlers Wells East season are available for £25 or less, with £10 Barclays Dance Pass tickets for 16-30-year-olds for every single performance.
Please sir, can I have some more? We all know the words, but do we all really need any more Oliver? So many of us will have been exposed to this production in school. I was an orphan in Oliver as a child, my daughter was an orphan as a child, the school I work…
The New Wimbledon Theatre played host to Jack and the Beanstalk this year, one of the 23 pantomimes producing by Crossroads pantomimes (who are also responsible for the pantomime at the London Palladium). Being part of such a large production stable, means that a local theatre is able to turn on a pantomime with extremely…
2024 had many wonderful theatre, book and cultural highlights. It was very hard to make choices of which were the most stellar but I have tried! Below are the shows, books and other treats which for me opened my mind and expanded my horizons in 2024. My 2024 Most Powerful Show: Between the Lines at…
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