So farewell, St James Theatre. Hello, The Other Palace – Victoria’s third theatre being rebranded after its purchase by Andrew Lloyd Webber and repositioned as a home for the nurturing of new musicals. To help launch the venue’s new name and purpose, artistic director Paul Taylor-Mills has chosen Michael John LaChiusa’s interpretation of The Wild…
Category: Review
Getting Dressed, Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio, London ★★★★½
The sort of playtime that would make even the oldest and most cynical of grown-ups regress to a childhood of play
Prom Kween, The Vaults, London ★★★
Originally reviewed for Musical Theatre Review: Every Fringe festival has its shambolic musicals – those shows where the zero budget aesthetic is fully embraced, which like to project an air of being put together at the very last minute and every rough edge is displayed with pride. For this year’s Vaults Festival, Prom Kween fills…
Stegosaurus, Etcetera Theatre, London ★★★
The complicated psychological life of a woman with multiple eating disorders is explored in Greek playwright Ersi Niaoti’s one woman play Stegosaurus, receiving its English language premiere.
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Theatre Royal Stratford East ★★★
Originally reviewed for The Reviews Hub: The maxim “be true to yourself” forms the basis of many a musical. And so it is with Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, a 2000 off-Broadway hit that follows the “protagonist learns not to succumb to others’ desires” trope so closely it is right…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★★★
The National Theatre play may be out to bow out of the West End shortly, but the touring production is still going strong
Dubailand, Finborough Theatre, London ★★★★
Light shines on a world that embodies modern-day colonialism in the heart of the desert, in Carmen Nasr’s new play
Swan Lake, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★½
Tchaikovsky’s perennially popular ballet is presented in classical form
German Cornejo’s Tango Fire, Peacock Theatre, London ★★★★
Ganchos galore and ochos aplenty
An Audience with Bob and Barry Cryer, Tara Arts, London ★★★★★
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The Unlikely Life of Leonard Langley, Courtyard Theatre, London ★★★
Lacuna Theatre’s one-act play seeks to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, although at times it feels as if it is doing the opposite
January, Live at Zédel, London ★★★
TS Eliot was three months too late. The cruellest month is not April, but January – when the post-Christmas comedown collides with hard-to-maintain resolutions, topped off by grotty weather. Such is the premise of this nascent new cabaret show, with a variety of comedy songs by Patrick Stockbridge set in the first month of every year.
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