During the past year, memories of the Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park kept coming back to me a la Proust dipping his biscuit into coffee. So to go back last night and experience it again was incredible. It is the most perfect venue to see a show, with the trees encircling the space as if…
As regular readers know, I love a good old-fashioned musical, and this summer, one of the first musicals I have ever seen returns to London for a limited run at the iconic Barbican Centre. So, I donned my sailor suit, walked up the gangplank, took my seat and settled back to revisit Anything Goes. In…
It’s not often that you can get to see a Broadway/West End lead performer in a 100-seater black-box theatre in SE1 but that’s what’s happening at the moment at The Little at Southwark Playhouse where Rachel Tucker is appearing in John & Jen. She should have been appearing on Broadway in Come From Away, a…
Matthew Ryan’s revival of Kevin Elyot’s 1994 play, set at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-80s, makes for a lightly entertaining evening at the Turbine Theatre. Structured over three acts, the play touches on areas of love, loneliness and infidelity, centred around the never-seen character Reg, and the impact of his promiscuity…
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…
The Tuck Shop brings the West End’s first-ever drag season to the Garrick Theatre this August with a deliciously varied assortment of nightlife wonderment. The first show of the season being Ginny Lemon and Friends. Star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Ginny Lemon is known for her crass humour, bizarre songs and electric yellow wardrobe;…
