Review: MY FAIR LADY, Leeds Playhouse
by Gary Naylor - June 08, 2024
Two terrific leads will delight audiences, but the source material's misogyny proves too much to simply sweep aside...
Review: MARIE CURIE, Charing Cross Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - June 08, 2024
She was exceptional, but the musical written about her is anything but. It tends to be old-fashioned and traditional in structure, willing itself to be a majestic epic, but never reaching that stage. Her life story feels rushed and vague, the songs are run-of-the-mill, standardised, lacking that big...
Review: ASHTON CELEBRATED - PROGRAMME 1 at Royal Opera House
by Matthew Paluch - June 07, 2024
The Ashton Worldwide (2024-2028) international festival continues at the Royal Opera House with the Royal Ballet on the mainstage in Ashton Celebrated. The company is performing two mixed bills with slight repertoire changes....
Review: WEDDING BAND, Lyric Hammersmith
by Cindy Marcolina - June 07, 2024
Interracial marriage has been legal in the United States for less than six decades. To put it into perspective, sliced bread was first sold forty years earlier. Set in 1918 South Carolina, Wedding Band is a blistering portrayal of unjust laws and discrimination, of conscious and unconscious bias, of...
Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Opera Holland Park
by Franco Milazzo - June 05, 2024
Even if the press night weather for this open air production suggested otherwise, this latest take on The Barber Of Seville is the perfect summer opera with its fluffy blend of humour and romance and some of the art form’s best known arias....
Review: SARASOTA BALLET - PROGRAMME 1 at Royal Opera House - Linbury Theatre
by Matthew Paluch - June 05, 2024
'wit, charm and elegance' are the words used to describe the work of Royal Ballet founding choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904-1988). English ballet, or rather style wouldn't exist without him, so The Frederick Ashton Foundation have understandably instigated the Ashton Worldwide (2024-2028) in...
Brighton Fringe Review: GHOST WALKS OF THE LANES, The Druid's Head
by Kat Mokrynski - June 08, 2024
Ghost Walk of the Lanes is an eighty-minute tour of “Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter,” with a storyteller dressed in a Victorian costume leading audience members around several historic sites of the city, stopping and telling stories, ringing a bell to lead the way....
Brighton Fringe Review: KIDS CAN HECKLE!, Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
by Kat Mokrynski - June 08, 2024
Kids Can Heckle!, hosted by comedian Ollie Horn, has an interesting concept. As you might be able to guess from the title, children are allowed to heckle. In fact, according to the show’s descriptions, they are “encouraged to jump in, share their ideas, and be as silly as possible,” so you can defin...
Review: GANDINI JUGGLING'S SMASHED, Peacock Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - June 04, 2024
Juggling not only apples but comedy, dance and socio-sexual commentary, the troupe co-founded by Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala in 1992 bring back their signature production to London....