A Jewish Dyspraxic Atheist from Northwest London, exiled to Clapham, who likes ticking boxes. Addicted to plays and musicals and a big fan of stand up comedy - will tell you about how he could have been a famous radio star if you get him drunk.
July 8, 2014
Revenge or justice - that's the debate offered by Oliver Cotton's star-studded West End transfer of Daytona. Just how should you react when the past you'd tried so hard to forget suddenly forces itself back into the present?
July 5, 2014
It's an unlikely venue for Shakespeare, a 24-storey 60s tower block in East London. But for the talented Rift Company's new production of Macbeth it creates perfect setting for innovative and intimate theatre.
June 18, 2014
Mark Benton leads the company for the latest revival of Harold Brighouse's family comedy Hobson's Choice, at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Moved 80 years in the future to the 1960s this new production attempts to tackle gender politics as well as making the most of the music and fashion from the era.
June 11, 2014
The rift between old and new generations is put under the microscope in Brian Friel's FATHERS AND SONS, an adaption of the 19th century Russian novel of the same name. In this new production at London's tiny Donmar Warehouse a fantastic company pull out the wit and emotion in an otherwise philosophical and verbose play.
June 10, 2014
At the West End Launch of David Bryan's soul musical Memphis, BWW:UK spoke to stars Beverley Knight and Killian Donnelly as well the Bon Jovi keyboardist himself.
June 10, 2014
Bon Jovi keyboard player David Bryan added a touch of rock and roll to the West End launch of his Tony award winning musical MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL at Soho's swanky Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
May 28, 2014
BAKERSFIELD MIST, Stephen Sachs' study on authenticity, delivers a theatre masterclass from Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid at one of the West End's smallest theatres - The Duchess.
May 19, 2014
The West-End's Garrick Theatre played host to some of the UK's hottest upcoming musical talent at the eighth annual Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Competition. The final saw 12 drama students from colleges across the UK deliver top-class performances of some of the stage's trickiest songs in front of a packed and very excited crowd.
May 14, 2014
After its award winning debut in 2013, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman show FLEABAG has returned to the Soho Theatre for what looks likely to be another sell-out run.
March 28, 2014
Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer-nominated OTHER DESERT CITIES is the latest Broadway hit to transfer to the Old Vic under Kevin Spacey's soon-to-finish tenure. It's also the start of a season of plays being performed in-the-round for the first time since 2008.
March 24, 2014
Westlife's Brian McFadden has joined an all star cast for the last ever tour of Jeff Wayne's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. With the show due to hit arenas from November 2014, McFadden told BWW:UK how excited he is to be playing the Sung Thoughts of the Journalist - alongside a holographic Liam Neeson as the Journalist - and what West End show he'd really love to be in.
March 16, 2014
Sometimes, fringe theatre is at its best when it's poking fun at the bigger brothers and sisters in the West End. USHERS: THE FRONT OF HOUSE MUSICAL is a fantastic tease, but this is no mere snarkfest - there's a heart underneath the satire.
March 15, 2014
It's taken 15 years since opening on Broadway, but URINETOWN, directed by Jamie Lloyd, has finally hit London with quite a splash. This dystopian satire has sell-out crowds cheering at the stylish St James Theatre in Victoria.
February 16, 2014
THE FAT MAN'S WIFE, the latest of prolific American playwright Tennessee Williams's one-act plays, was only discovered among his writings in 2000, 27 years after he died. Now, 14 years later, Little Venice's Canal Cafe Theatre is hosting the UK premiere.
February 1, 2014
Is someone born bad, or does society make them that way - Who's to blame? That's the big question underpinning CARTHAGE, which had its world premiere at the Finborough Theatre last night.
January 29, 2014
Berlin fans were were out in force at the Royal Festival Hall for a new retrospective marking what would have been his 125th year.
January 24, 2014
West End favourite Sophie Evans is joining an all-star cast at London's Royal Festival Hall for a celebration of the music of Irving Berlin. Ahead of the nationwide tour she spoke to BWW:UK
January 22, 2014
Following the success of its annual panto, David Bell's Off-broadway farce THE GAY NAKED PLAY (also known as THE PLAY ABOUT THE NAKED GUY) continues the first season in Above The Stag's new Vauxhall home.
January 9, 2014
Brought together by their father's suicide, sisters Abra and Samana are reunited in their parents' house ahead of the funeral. Brooklyn based actor and playwright Gregory Beam's new play KEEPSAKE, enjoying its world premier at Islington Old Red Lion Theatre, explores what happens when family secrets buried deep are forced to the surface - with explosive results.
December 3, 2013
After premiering at the Edinburgh festival six years ago, Adam Long's clever romp through the life and work of Charles Dickens has been revived for Leicester Square's Arts Theatre's delightful 2013 Christmas Show.
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