It’s that time of year when we see pantomimes take to the stage to celebrate the festive season – at the Theatre Royal Stratford East this year’s production is Jack & The Beanstalk. Put together by a creative team including Director Dawn Reid, with dialogue by Paul Sirett, this pantomime is a traditional take on [...]

Downstairs at the Soho Theatre something unpleasant is happening – cabaret artist David Hoyle and composer Richard Thomas (co-creator of Jerry Springer The Musical) are shredding Christmas cards, burning down the Christmas tree and terrifying Santa with an irreverent, sordid and downright filthy new show, ‘Merrie Hell‘. With Thomas tinkling the ivories behind him, Hoyle [...]

Staged for the first time in forty years, and set in the era of mobsters and molls, Boy Meets Boy is the latest production to grace the stage of the Jermyn Street Theatre, which you’ll find tucked away in the basement of an old Italian restaurant in Soho. Boy Meets Boy features Stephen Ashfield playing [...]

Inspired by Jean Webster’s novel of 1912 and realised in Paul Gordon’s music and lyrics, the musical Daddy Long Legs is the latest production to appear at the new St. James Theatre in Victoria. The storyline centres around abandoned orphan Jerusha Abbott and her mysterious benefactor, who she nicknames Daddy Long Legs. He provides fund [...]

Directed by Olivia Preye Bradbury and Frances Donohoe with story by The Unhidden Collective, The Fish Tales of Alaska closes out The Yard Theatre’s 2012 season. Running until 24 November, The Fish Tales Of Alaska knits together a story that tells the tall tales of this bleak and inhospitable part of the world. With the pregnant [...]

After a trial run at the Chichester Festival (no West End show seems to be able to avoid that particular crucible these days!) Singin’ In The Rain arrived at the Palace Theatre on Charing Cross Road back in the early Spring. Following a ‘blogger’ evening earlier this week we’ve finally had the opportunity to review [...]

A new adaptation of novelist Martina Cole’s ‘Dangerous Lady‘ takes to the stage at the Theatre Royal Stratford East from today until Saturday 17 November. Directed by Lisa Goldman with stage adaptation by Patrick Prior, this harrowing tale set in the East End tells the story of Maura (played by Claire-Louise Caldwell), the youngest of four [...]