Review: GARRY STARR: CLASSIC PENGUINS, Arts Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 4, 2025
There’s a fine line between genius and idiocy, and, in his determined effort to “save literature”, Garry Starr doesn’t so much walk it as perform the can-can on it wearing black tails, orange flippers and nothing else. In a show that drops jaws (and, in at least one case, drawers), he flaps through a catalogue of Penguin classics, bringing each to life in a gloriously stupid way.
Review: EVERY BRILLIANT THING, starring Minnie Driver, @sohoplace
by Franco Milazzo - Oct 22, 2025
If you’re anything like me — a man of taste, decency, and a healthy suspicion of anything that smells of group therapy — you approach a one-person play about depression with the same enthusiasm you’d reserve for an unexpected colonoscopy. The title, Every Brilliant Thing, only amplified my well-fed scepticism. It sounds like it should be a self-congratulatory bumper sticker on an electric vehicle or the name of a hastily manufactured boy band.
EDINBURGH 2025: SUGAR Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Jul 11, 2025
Theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy, Tomáš Kantor's award-winning debut is about Sugar – a gender-queer twink who discovers there's money to be made from transactional relationships (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman).
Review: MEOW MEOW: IT'S COME TO THIS, Soho Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - May 9, 2025
Somewhere in a parallel dimension, there’s a version of Melissa Madden Gray that became an internationally renowned singer, as comfortable in French, Italian and German as English. In another one, she finds herself an in-demand circus clown able to bring the house down with her wickedly funny cocktail of sardonic facial expressions, physical antics and perfect timing. Then there’s the dimension where she’s a dominatrix who could humble a giant with her battery of passive aggressive taunts and expert manhandling.
Review: THE EMPIRE STRIPS BACK: A BURLESQUE PARODY, Riverside Studios
by Franco Milazzo - May 7, 2025
The Empire Strips Back has docked at Hammersmith’s Riverside Studios. With over two hours of themed fun based on the original Star Wars film trilogy, it bills itself tautologically as “a burlesque parody” (the word burlesque comes from the Italian burla meaning a joke or ridicule).
LITTLE BROTHER Comes to Soho Theatre This Autumn
by Stephi Wild - Mar 25, 2025
Soho Theatre has announced its 2025 theatre season, with the world premiere of LITTLE BROTHER by Eoin McAndrew, winner of the 2024 Verity Bargate Award, this October. Tickets are now on sale.
Meow Meow To Star In IT'S COME TO THIS At Soho Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 12, 2024
International singing sensation and purr-fect post-pandemic, post-post-modern Superstar Meow Meow has announcef a limited run of her show It's Come To This at Soho Theatre in May 2025, following her critically acclaimed global takeover.
Australian Chamber Orchestra Brings The Ottoman Four Seasons to 92NY
by Stephi Wild - Sep 19, 2024
The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), one of New York's leading cultural venues, will present Australian Chamber Orchestra: The Ottoman Four Seasons with Richard Tognetti, artistic director and violin; Joseph Tawadros, oud; James Tawadros, riq on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 2pm on the David Geffen Stage at Kaufmann Concert Hall.
Her Majesty's Theatre Inducted into South Australia's Music Hall of Fame
by Stephi Wild - Jul 8, 2024
Adelaide’s iconic Her Majesty’s Theatre has delivered another stellar performance – being inducted into South Australia’s Music Hall of Fame! The stunning redeveloped theatre took out South Australia’s Music Hall of Fame 2024 Venue, awarded to different venues each year, recognising its rich musical heritage.
Celebrity Series of Boston Reveals 2024/25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 7, 2024
Celebrity Series of Boston has announced its 2024/25 season, marking 86 years of bringing world-class touring and local performing artists to Boston. Learn more about the season lineup here!
Performing Arts Houston Reveals 2024/25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2024
Season highlights include a new Global Voices Music Series celebrating traditions from around the world and a limited engagement with illusionist Scott Silven that will transform the Eldorado Ballroom into an immersive Scottish Victorian dinner theater.