Category: West End

Posted in Menier Chocolate Factory Terence Rattigan Theatre Theatre review West End

Re-review: Love in Idleness, Apollo Theatre

“I hate her being the mistress of a rich, old voluptuary” I wasn’t intending to revisit Love…

Posted in Christopher Hampton Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: The Philanthropist, Trafalgar Studios

“I’d much prefer to have honest criticism than your, if you don’t mind me saying so, negative…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Theatre West End

Album Review: Dreamgirls Original London Cast Recording (2017)

  “The time has come for my dreams to be heard” That it took so long for…

Posted in Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: Stepping Out, Vaudeville Theatre

“I just popped into Pineapple for this” There may be few real surprises to be had at…

Posted in Comedy Showstopper West End

Review: Showstopper, Lyric Theatre

“You can’t let the pipes play you, you play the pipes” After their residency at the Apollo,…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: Carousel, London Coliseum

“The crowd of doubtin’ Thomases Was predictin’ that the summer’d never come” The English National Opera have…

Posted in Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Re-review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “I am freedom, I’m constriction A potpourri of contradiction” A cheeky trip back to Kinky Boots…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre review West End

Review: 42nd Street, Theatre Royal Drury Lane

“You’re going out a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star” In the rush to…

Posted in Patrick Marber Theatre Tom Stoppard West End

Not-a-review: Travesties, Apollo

“It may be nonsense but at least it’s not clever nonsense” The problem with being addicted to…