Tag: west end play

  • Pride and Prejudice* sort of* @ Criterion Theatre*

    Pride and Prejudice* sort of* @ Criterion Theatre*

    Rating: 5/5Link to tickets: https://www.criterion-theatre.co.uk/pride-and-prejudice-sort-of/?&eventid=7001Booking until: April 2022Run Time: 2hr 30 There have been countless adaptations of Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. But I don’t think there will ever be an adaptation as loud or as witty as this one. Pride and Prejudice* (sort of)* is abridged version of the novel told by…

  • Death Of A Salesman @ Piccadilly Theatre*

    Death Of A Salesman @ Piccadilly Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/death-of-a-salesman-tickets Booking until: 4th January 2020 Run time: 3hrs Production Photographs by: Brinkhoff Mogenburg After a highly successful run at the Young Vic earlier this year, Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell’s stunning production of Arthur Miller’s classic has landed in the West End. Following the Loman family as the head…

  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin @ Harold Pinter Theatre*

    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin @ Harold Pinter Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: http://www.captaincorellismandolin.com/ Booking until: 31st August 2019 Production Photos by: Marc Brenner Run time: 2hr 50 mins. Going into Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, I only knew a couple of things about it. 1) this production has been on a successful tour around the UK. 2) They actually lost the mandolin at one…

  • Emilia @ The Vaudeville Theatre

    Emilia @ The Vaudeville Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.nimaxtheatres.com/shows/emilia/ Booking until: 15th June 2019 Run time: 2hrs 30 mins After a successful sold out run at the Globe, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s fierce and fiery feminist play Emilia is currently blowing the roof off the West End and deservedly so. Emilia tells the story of poet Emilia Bassano who,…

  • Julie @ the National Theatre

    Julie @ the National Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/julie Running until: 8th September 2018 Production Photos by: Richard H Smith Writer Polly Stenham has updated Strindberg’s classic play Miss Julie to London in 2018 in this bold yet minimalist production directed by Carrie Cracknell. Although this play is performed by three excellent British talent, at the core of it,…

  • An Ideal Husband @ Vaudeville Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.nimaxtheatres.com/shows/an-ideal-husband/ Running until: 14th July 2018 cover photo from Google. During my week off from work, I came across a cheeky discount ticket for a Tuesday matinee of the fourth production in the Classic Spring Company’s Oscar Wilde season at the Vaudeville. Having pleasantly enjoyed the first two productions A Woman…

  • Consent @ Harold Pinter Theatre*

    Consent @ Harold Pinter Theatre*

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/consent-tickets Running until: 11th August 2018 Production photos by: Johan Persson Consent was a particularly fitting choice of a play for me to go and see on the eve of the referendum in Ireland AND before GDPR came into play. After premiering at the National Theatre last year, the decision to…

  • Quiz @ Noel Coward Theatre

    Quiz @ Noel Coward Theatre

    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: http://quiztheplay.com Running until: 16th June 2018 Production photos by: Johan Persson After hit plays such as Labour of Love, Ink and This House, another smash hit from writer James Graham has landed on the West End via a brief run in Chichester. Quiz is a play based on the trial of…

  • The Ferryman @ Gielgud Theatre

    The Ferryman @ Gielgud Theatre

    Back in 2013, I saw my first much hyped play by Jez Butterworth – Mojo at the Harold Pinter Theatre where the entire play was set in a club, in Soho in 1995 and weaved together the pasts of 6 characters in a short space of time. The Ferryman has a similar approach but set…

  • Queen Anne @ Theatre Royal Haymarket

    Queen Anne @ Theatre Royal Haymarket

    After premiering at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford – Upon – Avon, Helen Edmundson’s play about the monarch’s transition into a Queen has landed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Written in a contemporary voice,  the play stars Emma Cunniffe as Queen Anne and Romola Garai as Sarah, the Duchess of Marlborough as Anne’s close…