Author: mag9l

Posted in Musicals News Theatre West End

News: Meet the new Matildas!

  (C) Helen Maybanks   For me, one of the more pleasing recent success stories in theatreland…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Ugly Lies The Bone, National Theatre

“It took three surgeries to give me back my eyelid” There’s a moment to catch the breath…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2017

Review: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”  The enduring image of Robert…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Scarlett, Hampstead Downstairs

“Don’t you want to come home?” Colette Kane’s I Know How I Feel About Eve played at…

Posted in Greenwich Theatre Musicals Theatre Theatre review

Review: Lizzie, Greenwich Theatre

“In the house of Borden, there’s a lock on every door” I’d be fibbing if I tried…

Posted in Theatre Theatre review

Review: Chigger Foot Boys, Tara Arts

“We were chosen because we think like Englishmen” At a moment in British history when the political…

Posted in Blogged Film Lin-Manuel Miranda

2017 Oscars – pre-ceremony thoughts

“For whatever reason, he spared a hamster” When you see as much theatre as I do, it…

Posted in Austentatious Comedy

Review: Austentatious, Leicester Square

“We were put on this earth to flash the flesh” Time for the monthly visit to Austentatious…

Posted in News Theatre

Round-up of news and treats and other interesting things

Originally developed as live shows in Melbourne and the Edinburgh Festival, multi-award winning and ‘two-time Edinburgh Comedy…