Category: West End

Posted in Live Music Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre West End

Review: Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure in Concert, Adelphi Theatre

“There’s something in the air tonight” Just a quickie for this semi-staged concert version of Stiles +…

Posted in Joe DiPietro Musicals Theatre West End

Re-review: Memphis, Shaftesbury Theatre

“Have a beer drop a time in the blind man’s jar” Never one to look a gift-horse…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined, Criterion Theatre

“Just take me inside your arms and hold me tight” Now that The 39 Steps has finally…

Posted in Comedy Showstopper West End

Re-review: Showstopper, Apollo Theatre

“What’s it gonna be Paul, what’s it gonna be?” The beauty of improvised musical show The Showstoppers…

Posted in Musicals Theatre West End

Not-really-a-re-review: Gypsy, Savoy

A third trip to Gypsy? My reaction on finding out it was being recorded for the BBC…

Posted in Comedy Showstopper West End

Review: Showstopper, Apollo Theatre

“We even got the dinosaurs in there” It’s perhaps a sign of the times that an element…

Posted in Howard Goodall Musicals Theatre West End

Re-review: Bend it like Beckham, Phoenix Theatre

“Just look at them now” A third trip back to UB2 and Bend it like Beckham remains…

Posted in Cyndi Lauper LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre West End

Review: Kinky Boots, Adelphi Theatre

  “Drag queens are mainstream. Just this morning I was offered a gig singing at a nursing…

Posted in Theatre West End

Review: Photograph 51, Noël Coward

“The instant I saw the photograph my mouth fell open and my pulse began to race”  The…