Afterglow review: Go for the nudity, stay for the three-way
★★★ | Afterglow, London A married gay couple welcome a third and things will never be the same with them again. In the show Afterglow, now playing at Southwark Playhouse, […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Promises Promises, Southwark Playhouse
★★★ | Promises, Promises – Southwark Playhouse ‘Promises Promises’ has a fine pedigree. It’s a 1968 musical based on the classic 1960 Billy Wilder film, ‘The Apartment’. The script is […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Side Show at Southwark Playhouse
★★★ | Side Show at Southwark Playhouse There’s something grimly fascinating about conjoined twins. As a child, I longed for a twin, someone within the family who would be just […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Allegro, Southwark Playhouse
★★★★ | Allegro With Allegro, the charming space at Southwark Playhouse sees the UK premiere of a dusty old 1947 musical. Thanks to the partnership of Thom Southerland and […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Through The Mill, Southwark Playhouse
★★★★★ | Through The Mill, Southwark Playhouse It’s Judy Garland times three in the new musical Through The Mill now playing at Southwark Playhouse. The show gives us Garland in […]
THEATRE REVIEW: Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse
Based on the 1975 cult classic documentary film of the same name, Grey Gardens tells the real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and […]
Harvey Fierstein Backs Southwark Show Casa Valentina
Harvey Fierstein, the theatre genius who brought us Torch Song Trilogy and La Cage aux Folles, is the man behind two productions opening concurrently in London. Kinky Boots, a musical […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Gods and Monsters, Southwark Playhouse
★★★★★ | Gods and Monsters, Southwark Playhouse It’s the late 1950s and ageing Hollywood director, James Whale, best known for his iconic Frankenstein films, is languishing in his Los Angeles […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Next Fall
★★★★ | Next Fall Imagine meeting a younger man, falling in love and then finding out that he has a very different ideology from yours. How would you cope if […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse
★★★★ | Dogfight, Southwark Playhouse San Francisco 1963 is the setting for this powerful musical, receiving its European premiere at The Southwark Playhouse. A bunch of marines are on their […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Three Sisters, Southwark Playhouse
★★★★★ | | Three Sisters, Southwark Playhouse Three sisters are living in a vast house three thousand miles from home, longing for different forms of escape as they languish in […]