Interview: Laura Corcoran talks about WONDERVILLE: 'It's only just getting started'
With a new venue and a new emphasis, variety show Wonderville has returned to London this month following on from its debut season last year at the Palace Theatre.
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Review: THE BLACK CAT CABARET PRESENTS HALCYON NIGHTS, Crazy Coqs
Few people looking back at this season of scorching heatwaves, political upheaval and financial crisis would label it “halcyon” but, in a small room under Piccadilly Circus, an idyll of music and cabaret can be found thanks to this welcome slice of old school Hollywood pizzazz.
Review: PHANTOM PEAK, London
Phantom Peak, a Wild West-themed town with robots and no shortage of mysteries, may sound a tad like Westworld – but that’s where the comparison ends.
Review: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE, Gillian Lynne Theatre
Amid a summer season positively snowed under with escapist fare, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe fits right in.
Review: L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA, Arcola Theatre
Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, revived here by Ensemble OrQuesta as part of the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn season, is a highly controversial and disputed work of baroque opera which flips the script on contemporary morality.
Review: BRIEFS: BITE CLUB, Southbank Centre
It’s taken three years but the Briefs cabaret crew have finally returned from Down Under with not just a new show but, with Sahara Beck and her band, a new direction too.
Review: CLOSER, Lyric Hammersmith
It has been a quarter-century since Patrick Marber's Closer debuted, but this play, in which everyone screws everyone in every sense of the word, has lost absolutely none of its epic brutality.
Review: SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO AND JULIET, Leicester Square Theatre
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare doesn’t take itself too seriously and puts bawdy entertainment at the top of the agenda; whether Shakespeare himself would give the thumbs up (or perhaps some other finger) is a question for another day.
Review: PEAKY BLINDERS: THE RISE, Camden Garrison
Get your flat-cap ready and brush up your Brummie accent: the immersive Peaky Blinders: The Rise has arrived in London.
Review: ANYTHING GOES, The Barbican
No, no, it isn’t déjà vu: Anything Goes really is back at the Barbican less than a year after it last opened there.
Review: YUMMY: ICONIC, Underbelly Festival
Australian drag variety show Yummy: Iconic features of quintet of performers dishing out an upbeat blend of dance, circus, burlesque and as much as lipsyncing as they can cram in.
Review: A-TYPICAL RAINBOW, Turbine Theatre
Starring and written by JJ Green, A-Typical Rainbow has a particular mission: to give the audience a mind’s eye view of what it was like for him to be an autistic child and young man.
Review: REDEMPTION, The Big House
A gut-punching slab of immersive theatre that takes no prisoners may be just what the doctor ordered in these interesting times.
Review: GIFFORD CIRCUS' ¡CARPA!, Chiswick House And Gardens
The late Nell Gifford, co-founder of Gifford’s Circus, wrote that 'a good circus is a sublimely existential thing, living acutely and only for the present moment.
BWW Review: JITNEY, Old Vic
August Wilson’s Jitney, a play about Black taxi drivers in Seventies Pittsburgh, last opened in London in October 2001.
BWW Review: THE CAR MAN at Royal Albert Hall
Highly physical, beautifully danced and sexy as all hell, Sir Matthew Bourne’s acclaimed ballet The Car Man made its debut in 2000 and now returns to London with an imaginative new staging at the Royal Albert Hall.
BWW Review: GECKO: THE WEDDING, Barbican
“By all means, marry.
BWW Review: MACHINE DE CIRQUE, Peacock Theatre
Looking for something endlessly inventive, ridiculously energetic, child-friendly yet racier than an MP's browsing history? Machine de Cirque has it all.
BWW Review: EUGENE ONEGIN, Opera Holland Park
On a summer night in West London, a blazing fire of a Russian opera did battle with the chill night air.
BWW Review: ANY ATTEMPT WILL END IN CRUSHED BODIES AND SHATTERED BONES, Sadler's Wells
any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones is most definitely not for the faint-hearted.
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