Musical Theatre: "You already know you're going to love it." Right?
By JBR "Have you booked for In the Heights yet?" "Oh, I don't go and see musicals, I don't like them" Luckily at that moment the lights...
Sean Gandini - putting Juggling back on the cultural agenda
By Sophia Longhi In its first week at the Udderbelly Festival, Gandini Juggling's Smashed experienced full audiences, standing ovations...
Lucifer Saved, Lion & Unicorn
By Ewan Stuart I find that theatre in small spaces tends to rush a bit. As the space gets tighter the pace gets quicker, and everything...
Best of Friends won't make too many friends...but it could.
By JBR I Can’t Sing! has posted closing notices after just two short months and once again we are discussing the state of musical theatre...
Oh My Sweet Land's call for compassion
By B. Evans Oh My Sweet Land is a beautiful, personal piece of theatre that resists easy categorisation. It is artistically and socially...
Birdland and the empty promise of celebrity - or - An open love letter to Andrew Scott from a secre
By JBR “I'm sick of the word celebrity. It's so overused now isn’t it? You just hear it everywhere! Celebrity this, celebrity that -...
Handbagged at Dawn: Are transfers transforming the West End?
By E.J.Martin London's main stages are currently fit to burst with things we have seen before. The West End is playing home to an...
Three Sisters, Southwark Playhouse
By B.Evans I always used to feel a little nervous about going to see a Chekhov play. I would worry that I might be bored, and worse...
Stripped down and exposed: Othello at Leicester Square Theatre
By Emily Hardy William Shakespeare is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world. He is cherished, particularly in England, and...
Art for art's sake in The Beautiful Game
By JBR There’s a certain catchphrase that bloggers like to add to their reviews at the moment that really gets on my wick. “It’s so good...
