Storytelling is an important part of the human experience, as old as time itself people have regaled their journey and their experience to the next generation through the art of the spoken word. head/lining, currently showing at the Pleasance Downstairs, is the vehicle that Charlie Heptinstall has chosen to tell his story, to speak his…
Katie Arnstein’s award-winning production Sexy Lamp is back, this time for a short run at the Omnibus Theatre in Clapham. (She then heads to Nottingham Playhouse’s studio then The Edinburgh Festival at The Pleasance. Personally, I feel that it should do a detour, Katie’s one-woman show should be performed at every secondary school in the…
Ahead of their August residency at The Assembly Roxy upstairs at the Edinburgh Festival, The Fringe Wives Club exploded into the Southbank’s Udderbelly for One Night Only. Fierce, feminist and full of sequins, this trio of high energy, award-winning performers left no doubt that they were here to make a stand against patriarchy and they…
Jermyn Street Theatre, the West End’s arthouse performance venue is currently running its Scandal season. Opening the season is the one-woman play Woman Before A Glass by Lanie Robertson. I’m assuming the name Guggenheim is a name that is familiar to the majority of people, however, If you’re like me, you’d have heard of the…
“Can you fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender?” is the question the marketing for Boy Stroke Girl poses. The play is returning to the Etcetera Theatre in Camden for a second run, this time from 28th Feb – 12th March 2017. I went along to their Press Night on the…
Star of stage and screen Anthony Rapp is currently performing his solo show Anthony Rapp: Live in Concert in the studio at St James Theatre. The show is running for 2 weeks, the last day being Saturday 17th December . The show has been programmed to play alongside the 20th Anniversary production of Rent The…
For me, the sign of a great musical is leaving the theatre with a smile on my face whilst singing along to tunes I’ve just learnt – it’s now a day later and I’m still singing “You Shall go to the Ball” from Stiles and Drew’s Soho Cinders, a new musical that is playing at…
Isley Lynn’s award-winning Skin a Cat is currently playing in The Bunker Theatre, having transferred from its sell-out run at the Vault Festival. The Bunker Theatre is a new venue, formally a disused underground car park next door to The Meniere Chocolate Factory – It’s now a black box performance space complete with bar and…
When I was invited to watch SAVAGE a new play by Claudio Macor, I must say the subject matter wasn’t one that excited me at first glance: “a tale of love amidst the brutal true story of a Nazi War Criminal”. With the fallout that the UK is experiencing after the Brexit debacle I didn’t…