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Franco Milazzo

The Daily Beast were kind enough to call me "a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s underground culture" and I have been editing/reviewing stage productions since 2010 for some of London's biggest websites covering theatre, opera, dance, cabaret, immersive and everything in between.






Review: DON'T.MAKE.TEA, Soho Theatre
Review: DON'T.MAKE.TEA, Soho Theatre
March 28, 2024

A pitch-black comedy thriller which gives Franz Kafka a run for his money, Don’t.Make.Tea doesn’t hold back in its excoriating view of modern Britain.

Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Royal Opera House
Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Royal Opera House
March 28, 2024

There are few things more life-affirming than christenings, orgies and operas. And few works are more life-affirming and cathartic than Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.

Review: MIND MANGLER: MEMBER OF THE TRAGIC CIRCLE, Apollo Theatre
Review: MIND MANGLER: MEMBER OF THE TRAGIC CIRCLE, Apollo Theatre
March 25, 2024

A spin off from Mischief Theatre’s Magic Goes Wrong,  Mind Mangler: Member Of The Tragic Circle makes its official London debut.

Review: SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL, Dominion Theatre
Review: SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL, Dominion Theatre
March 22, 2024

Sister Act The Musical’s tagline is “A Divine Musical Comedy” but whether the gods were for or against the film or this later version is debatable.

Review: FAITH HEALER, Lyric Hammersmith
Review: FAITH HEALER, Lyric Hammersmith
March 21, 2024

Frank Hardy has a problem. He’s an Irish faith healer without faith in his power to heal. It comes, it goes and he only knows for sure when it is not going to happen. With his wife Grace and manager Teddy, their tour of Wales and Scotland in a battered van has seen his abilities steadily failing him. A last throw of the die sees him return to his homeland. What could go wrong?

Review: BIG FINISH, Battersea Arts Centre
Review: BIG FINISH, Battersea Arts Centre
March 20, 2024

Absurdist quintet Figs In Wigs return to preach an apocalyptic gospel - but is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Review: UNIVERSE: A DARK CRYSTAL ODYSSEY, Sadler's Wells
Review: UNIVERSE: A DARK CRYSTAL ODYSSEY, Sadler's Wells
March 19, 2024

Getting to grips with what a mute medium like dance is trying to convey is never easy even when there is a recognisable concept like Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal.

Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Wilton's Music Hall
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Wilton's Music Hall
March 18, 2024

In the week when an Arts Council England report lambasted the current state of opera and questioned its relevance to wider society, Charles Court Opera’s The Barber Of Seville stands as a stern rebuff to those who consider this art form to be dated and irrelevant.

Review: THE RETURN OF THE KING IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
Review: THE RETURN OF THE KING IN CONCERT, Royal Albert Hall
March 18, 2024

With a live rendition of the Oscar-winning score by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus, the latest in the Royal Albert Hall’s “films in concert” series brings the The Lord of the Rings epic fantasy saga to a majestic conclusion.

Review: GINGERLINE'S THE GRAND EXPEDITION, Dalston
Review: GINGERLINE'S THE GRAND EXPEDITION, Dalston
March 18, 2024

Like some latter day Phileas Fogg, immersive dining specialists Gingerline’s revival of The Grand Expedition leads us on a merry virtual journey around the world all while sat in a hot air balloon gondola.

Review: JENŮFA, London Coliseum
Review: JENŮFA, London Coliseum
March 15, 2024

Opera is not short of stories where women are violated and abandoned by the men in their lives but Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa is an especially cruel tale.

Review: PUDDLES PITY PARTY, Soho Theatre
Review: PUDDLES PITY PARTY, Soho Theatre
March 13, 2024

Puddles Pity Party returns to Soho Theatre after almost a decade away.

Review: BESOS, BEATS AND BEAUTIES, Lio London
Review: BESOS, BEATS AND BEAUTIES, Lio London
March 7, 2024

Operating from the former Café de Paris, dinner-cabaret experience Lio London is coming up to its first anniversary and is celebrating with its latest show Besos, Beats and Beauties.

Review: BALLET NATIONAL DE MARSEILLE: ROOMMATES, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Review: BALLET NATIONAL DE MARSEILLE: ROOMMATES, Queen Elizabeth Hall
March 2, 2024

With an eclectic programme including an immersive dreamscape, an intense two-hander and a revolutionary footstomper, the Ballet national de Marseille present a six-pack of impressive dance pieces.

Review: STANDING AT SKY'S EDGE, Gillian Lynne Theatre
Review: STANDING AT SKY'S EDGE, Gillian Lynne Theatre
February 29, 2024

Through the lens of three households living in Sheffield’s Park Hill housing estate, Chris Bush examines family and politics in modern Britain.

Review: THE TIGER LILLIES AND DAVID HOYLE: LESSONS IN NIHILISM at Wilton's Music Hall
Review: THE TIGER LILLIES AND DAVID HOYLE: LESSONS IN NIHILISM at Wilton's Music Hall
February 28, 2024

Looking at their impressive longevity and sheer depravity, Lessons In Nihilism’s combination of musical trio The Tiger Lillies and drag’s philosopher king David Hoyle is an almost inevitable team up, the only surprise being that it hasn’t happened before.

Review: SPIDER, Riverside Studios
Review: SPIDER, Riverside Studios
February 23, 2024

The cruel world of drama schools is examined at close range in Spider, written and directed by Jude Benning and currently playing at Riverside Studios as part of their Bitesize Festival.

Review: THIS & THAT, Barbican Centre
Review: THIS & THAT, Barbican Centre
February 18, 2024

Appearing down in the Barbican’s Pit theatre as the final part of this year’s MimeLondon, This & That from Phil Soltanoff and Steven Wendt is an oblique and often frustrating hour of shadow puppetry and animation.

Review: DINA MARTINA: SUB-STANDARDS, Soho Theatre
Review: DINA MARTINA: SUB-STANDARDS, Soho Theatre
February 17, 2024

Flying in from the States for her eighth time at Soho Theatre, Seattle-based performer Dina Martin debuts her new show Sub-Standards. It takes some skill to straddle performance art, clowning, drag and stand-up with skill and wit but she never looks uncomfortable. And nor should she with her considerable pedigree and following.

Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY - MUSICAL IN CONCERT, London Palladium
Review: THE ADDAMS FAMILY - MUSICAL IN CONCERT, London Palladium
February 14, 2024

On its West End debut, The Addams Family musical makes the most of its graveyard humour and kooky characters, even if the star casting is questionable.



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