Category: On Stage
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Diva! Live From Hell @ Turbine Theatre*
Rating: 4/5Booking until: 3rd September 2022Ticket link: https://www.theturbinetheatre.com/whats-on/diva%3A-live-from-hell Based on All About Eve, Diva Live From Hell follows Desmond Channing who gives his one man show about his time in high school after he dies following a turn as drama club president. The cabaret takes place in hell with Desmond telling the story of how…
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Tasting Notes @ Southwark Playhouse*
Rating: 4/5Running until: 27th August 2022Ticket link: https://www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/the-little/tasting-notes/https://www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/the-little/tasting-notes/ Tasting Notes takes place in LJ’s, a wine bar located in South London over the course of a random 24 hours. Throughout the piece, we see the lives of LJ, her staff and one of her regular customers’ perspectives of this same day. Despite a very bizarre…
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Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show @ Roundhouse*
Rating: 4/5Running until: 28th AugustTicket link: https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/2022/fashion-freak-show/ This incredible piece created by famous fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, while dubbed as a musical revue, is part exhibition, part ballet, part performance art all about his life in fashion. Travelling across time and genres, this unique production allows the audience to feel at home in their…
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A Week At The Theatre | Anything Goes*, The Dance of Death*, A Midsummer Night’s Dream*
Quite the range at the theatre this week from a classic musical to an adaptation of a Strindberg play and a new interpretation of a great Shakespeare play. Anything Goes at the Barbican*Rating: 4/5Running until: 3rd SeptemberTicket link: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/anything-goes-tickets Returning to the Barbican for the summer after a triumphant run in 2021 and finishing up…
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A Week At The Theatre | Mad House, The Pride, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice*, Unfortunate.
A very, very busy week at the theatre for me! Have seen such a range of shows this week (including 1 show I’ll be reviewing next week and a trip to London Zoo at night!) which has been a lot of fun. Mad House at the Ambassador’s TheatreRating: 4/5Running until: 4th SeptemberTicket link: https://www.madhousetheplay.co.uk/ A…
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A Week At The Theatre | Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, Frozen, Jitney.
Such a great week of proper good shows! Been quite a busy one as I was on annual leave. As well as these three fantastic shows, also managed to squeeze in a quick return trip to Bonnie & Clyde too which I have already reviewed here Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World at Theatre…
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A Week At The Theatre | The Father and The Assassin, We Started To Sing, Girl On The Train*
Quite the week for lengthy play titles! Managed to catch two plays before they finish next week and I got to visit a theatre in London I hadn’t been to before. The Father and The Assassin at the National TheatreRating: 5/5Running until: 18th JuneTicket link: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-father-and-the-assassin The Father and The Assassin is an epic new…
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A Week At The Theatre | ABBA Voyage, The Lion*, Lift.
A very musical week this week, including two trips to the Southwark Playhouse and an immersive concert experience. I did also get to see the We Will Rock You tour at the New Wimbledon Theatre with and thanks to Olivia at RewriteThisStory and her friend Charlotte (you can read Olivia’s review here .) This week’s…
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A Week At The Theatre | Legally Blonde, Halls, Middle.
Quite a varied week in London theatre for me. A revival of a musical based on an iconic film, a workshop for a new musical and an intense one act play about a marriage breaking down. Where else would you get the variety? Legally Blonde at Regent’s Park Open Air TheatreRating: 3.5/5Running until: 2nd July…
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A Week At The Theatre | Prima Facie, My Fair Lady*, Grease*.
I am slightly lying with the title here, because I didn’t actually see Prima Facie this week. But it was the last show I saw before I was struck with good ol corona for the week. But now I’m back at the theatre and have been to see 4 absolutely brilliant shows that you can…
Hayley Sprout 