Review: SHANGHAI DOLLS, Kiln Theatre
Looking at the rise and fall of two powerful Chinese women through the vague lens of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House probably sounded good on paper.
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Review: STEVEN FRAYNE: UP CLOSE AND MAGICAL, Underbelly Boulevard
The magician formerly known as Dynamo and now more formally as Steven Frayne steps away from his ex-persona to embrace a new start.
Review: CONTAINER, New Diorama Theatre
Unlike the object it is named after, Container studiously avoids fripperies like classical forms and categorisation.
Review: FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE, President Hotel
Nostalgia might not be what it used to be but it hasn’t stopped the Faulty Towers Dining Experience rolling on and on for over 13 years in the UK and even longer in its native Australia.
Interview: 'Let's Go!': Director Scott Maidment on Circus, Cabaret and Comedy in SABRAGE
For fans of cabaret spectaculars Limbo and Cantina, Sabrage from Scott Maidment's Strut and Fret company is a welcome return to UK shores.
Review: SABRAGE, Lafayette
Australian masters of variety extravaganzas Strut & Fret return to the UK with their unashamedly adult and savagely sexy new show Sabrage.
Review: WILKO: LOVE AND DEATH AND ROCK 'N' ROLL, Southwark Playhouse Borough
Jonathan Maitland’s portrayal starts when Wilko Johnson at the height of his fame has the bad luck to be marked for death both on screen and off.
Review: MAN IN THE MIRROR, Golders Green Hippodrome
With fifteen years experience as a Michael Jackson impersonator and spending two hours in the make-up chair every night getting ready, you can’t fault CJ (Craig Harrison) for commitment.
Review: DOUBLE ACT, Southwark Playhouse
Nick Hyde’s tragicomic Double Act uses clowning and comedy to tell the story of a young man (played by Hyde and Oliver Maynard in white face paint) who wakes up and sets off to kill himself somewhere on the South Coast.
Review: PARADISE LOST (LIES UNOPENED BESIDE ME), Battersea Arts Centre
One thought rattled around my head all night while watching this radical take on Paradise Lost: how would God react to all of this? Would Jehovah, The Almighty, Him Up There be more or less angry than he was at the original text? Would He raise a solitary finger and cast lightning down on the venue?
Review: THE TINDERSTICKS, Royal Albert Hall
Quite where The Tindersticks fit into the modern era is a bit of a mystery.
Review: THE LITTLE PRINCE, London Coliseum
Turning one of the world’s most famous children’s works into a lively stage adventure populated with quirky characters and illustrated by marvellous sights sounds like a money-making machine.
Review: BARBIE: THE MOVIE, Royal Albert Hall
It may have lacked the star power seen in previous shows but the Royal Albert Hall’s latest entry in their Films In Concert events was a night punctuated by laughter, tears and raw emotion.
Interview: From Kansas Sunflower Patch to Speakeasy Queen: Eddy Hackett on Belle Livingstone, the Inspiration for The Lost Estate's 58TH STREET
We speak to Eddy Hackett of immersive theatre specialists The Lost Estate about the jazz-infused 58th Street and its inspiration Belle Livingstone.
Review: PHANTOM PEAK: JONACON, Canada Water
In something of a quiet revolution, Phantom Peak has clambered its way to join the best atop the immersive theatre pile - an impression that its latest season fails to dismiss.
Review: TRASH!, Peacock Theatre
If ever a show was deserving of an exclamation mark, it is the crash-bang-bang-bang-wallop Trash!
Review: MURDER ON THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, Six by Nico
Word on the street is that there’s a new murder mystery adventure in town so, after putting on my metaphorical deerstalker and hoicking the collar of my coat up, I took a walk down to the mean streets of, er, Canary Wharf.
Review: KENREX, Southwark Playhouse
In a vigorous virtuoso performance that demands to be seen, Jack Holden brings to exhilarating life a true-life crime story from half a century ago.
Review: EAST IS SOUTH, Hampstead Theatre
AI and ChatGPT are yesterday’s news but artificial general intelligence - and the very existential threat it presents - may very well be tomorrow’s.
Review: STALLED, King's Head Theatre
Set in a corporate building’s executive ladies’ room in Seattle and with its tagline promising us a story of “holding on, letting go and everything in between”, Liesl Wilke’s new musical Stalled makes its world premiere at Kings Head Theatre.
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