★★★ | Set in Dublin in 1986, The Commitments charts the rise and fall of an unlikely group of misfit musicians who are brought together by young music entrepreneur Jimmy Rabbitte. The […]
★★★ | 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 […]
★★★ | Sunny Afternoon In this musical biopic, the swinging sixties are brought back to life as Sunny Afternoon tells the story of the early days of the classic British […]
★★★ | RAGTIME, London Theatre The US is in turmoil: racial discrimination is rife while immigrants arrive by the boatload to escape feast and famine in their own countries. This […]
★★★ |Cats Based on the poems of T.S. Elliot, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s seminal, record breaking musical tells the tale of the gathering of a tribe of cats for their annual […]
★★★ | In 1944, big band leader Glenn Miller’s plane went missing over the English Channel as he flew to Paris to entertain the troops during the Second World War. […]
★★★ | A Dream, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield A warm midsummer evening, a busy hospital, a plethora of patients and staff and a mash up of Shakespeare’s best characters come together in […]
The 1997 Broadway musical of “Titanic” may have shared an inaugural year with the showy and special effect laden film by James Cameron but thankfully there’s not so much as […]
★★★ | Dancing In The Streets Mowtown magic lives on in this musical revue, pulling together the classic artists, the timeless songs and the sound which defined a generation with […]
★★★ | Funny Girl Is there anything Sheridan Smith can’t do? She’s now playing Fanny Brice in the new West End musical Funny Girl, but Smith has done quite a […]
★★★ | Guys And Dolls
