Critics' Choice: Franco Milazzo's Best Shows Of 2024
by Franco Milazzo - Dec 31, 2024
Writing stage reviews is an adventure I have yet to tire of. This year, I sat in the dark and scribbled hieroglyphics into my notebook in a dark room as I watched opera, cabaret, dance, circus, comedy, clowns, musicals, concert films, buckets of immersive shows (theatre, dining, even panto) and even some theatre.
Review: LA CLIQUE, Leicester Square Spiegeltent
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 13, 2024
Returning to the West End La Clique is back with a new cast. After two decades of presenting some of the finest vaudeville talent around, is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning for this cabaret institution?
LA CLIQUE Will Return To London This Christmas To Mark 20 Year Anniversary
by Stephi Wild - Sep 19, 2024
The cabaret show La Clique is returning to London this Christmas for its 20th anniversary. Having blown away audiences for over two decades across the UK, Australia and around the globe, this iconic show is getting ready to take over London's glittering Leicester Square again this Christmas.
Review: BESOS, BEATS AND BEAUTIES, Lio London
by Franco Milazzo - Mar 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: BATSU, Underbelly Boulevard
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 27, 2023
Batsu: it’s not subtle, it’s not for the sober and definitely isn’t suitable for children. The ballsy, boozy gameshow from across the pond invades London for some late-night improv comedy shenanigans at the new venue Underbelly Soho.
Full Cast Set For THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN at Salisbury Playhouse
by Stephi Wild - Sep 21, 2023
Following the success of Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense opening their autumn season, Wiltshire Creative has announced the full cast for The Girl on the Train, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and DreamWorks’ film. Find out who is starring in the show here!
Review: LA CLIQUE, Leicester Square Spiegeltent
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 16, 2022
When it comes to London Christmas stage institutions, there’s an argument for saying that La Clique now deserves a place alongside Handel’s Messiah, A Christmas Carol, The Nutcracker and Mother Goose.
Giles Terera in OTHELLO Leads Our Top Ten Shows for November
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 1, 2022
From Giles Terera as Othello at the National Theatre, to Daniel Craig as James Bond at the Royal Albert Hall, November has some real theatrical treats in store. There's also the first of the festive offerings, with a new opera at the London Coliseum based on a classic Christmas film and a much-loved revival of a Dickens' classic at The Old Vic.
LA CLIQUE Comes to Leicester Square
by Stephi Wild - Oct 5, 2021
Let the festivities begin, as LA CLIQUE makes its triumphant return to London's West End this Christmas with an incredible new show in The Leicester Square Spiegeltent.