Tape Face review
After a sold-out Las Vegas season and a well-documented stint on America's Got Talent that culminated in viral success, comedian-come-mime artist Tape Face brings his new show to the West End. Set within a dilapidated dressing room on the Garrick stage, the show is literally what it says on the...
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour review
It's easy to recall school trips; sitting at the back of the bus secretly swigging Coca-Cola whilst rolling up blazer sleeves to show off your latest shag bands. But the Catholic schoolgirls of the fictitious convent school in Oban have an altogether different idea. This is Our Ladies of Perpetual...
Love in Idleness review
After a sold-out season at the ever-popular Menier Chocolate Factory, Terence Rattigan’s drawing-room drama and wartime comedy Love in Idleness moves over to the Apollo Theatre. It’s a different performance space; less intimate and subsequently less forgiving, but the play still manages to...
42nd Street review
In the heart of little old London, you'll find one of Broadway's biggest musicals donning its tap shoes at one of the West End's biggest theatres. Mark Bramble once again directs 42nd Street, for which he received a Tony Award for reviving in 2001. It's a bigger, glitzier and much more outrageous...
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review
There’s something irrationally irresistible about Edward Albee’s blistering play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which makes any marital dispute dim in comparison. Packed full of punch, both literally and figuratively, the play is the perfect star vehicle, in this case driven by powerhouse...
Stepping Out review
There’s something exciting about a group of women leading their own play in the West End; Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is receiving an anticipated transfer and we’ve recently seen the stellar all-female Donmar Shakespeare season. It only makes sense that Stepping Out would be equally...
Travesties review
“It may be nonsense” says famous founder of Dadaism, Tristan Tzara, and for the most part, it could be. But there's something undeniably clever about Tom Stoppard's 1974 play, written in the very early stages of his career. Imaginatively revived by director Patrick Marber, Travesties is the...
The Girls review
With a string of successes under his belt, including Finding Neverland and the current BBC show Let It Shine, Take That star Gary Barlow has wangled his way firmly into musical theatre, and is clearly here to stay. Collaborating with close friend and original screenwriter of Calendar Girls, Tim...
The Glass Menagerie review
When John Tiffany's production of The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway in 2013, it was revered amongst the critics. Now, the revival has arguably more sway, not least because of Tiffany's success with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which has subconsciously raised our expectations. It's one...
Dirty Great Love Story review
It’s not often that you are collectively greeted on a West End stage by two shiny-faced performers peering out under the house lights. Both exude a nervous energy that sets the tone perfectly for this Fringe First Award-winning show, which refreshingly bashes down the fourth wall with a heavy...
