The Circus Abyssinia Troupe comes to London’s Underbelly festival: Following Circus Abyssinia Troupe’s smash hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 and their appearance on ITV’s Royal Variety Performance, I was very excited to be invited to the opening show of their joyous production of Ethiopian Dreams at London’s Underbelly Festival on London’s Southbank. […]
Preview – Treading Water performs in April & May at the Cockpit Theatre
Treading Water at the Cockpit, London Do you fancy seeing an amusing, touching play in Central London? Performer and writer Kathryn Gardner, along with her Theatre Company Subtle Paws are doing two performances of their production of Treading Water, which has delighted audiences to date, at the Cockpit Theatre. I am definitely planning to see […]
The CHAMÄLEON Theatre in Berlin presents FINALE
A night out in Berlin with CHAMÄLEON Theatre: The CHAMÄLEON Theatre is tucked away in one of the beautiful courtyards in the Hackesche Höfe area in the heart of East Berlin in wonderful Art Deco building, which was built in 1902. The area was inhabited by the artistic community after the wall came down and has […]
Short trip to Berlin
Berlin or Bust – a Short Break: I’m getting to be quite a regular visitor to Berlin. I’ve been on several occasions over the past couple of years primarily to come review a new production of a circus show at the splendid CHAMÄLEON Theatre in the Hackesche Höfe area. This year I was here to […]
Cathy by Cardboard Citizens at the Soho Theatre
Cathy – Soho Theatre London: Cathy is brought to the stage fifty years after Ken Loach and Jeremy Sandford’s groundbreaking seminal TV drama Cathy Come Home was broadcast on the BBC, a programme that shocked the nation with its brutal realism and its account of one family’s tragic descent into homelessness. This year is the […]
It’s a Spring Break party … in Neverland
Shuttlecock Inc Presents NTV Spring Break Peter Pan has to be my all-time favourite childhood story, I was forever living in a world of pirates and Lost Boys and so when I was invited to go along to a party in an immersive adult playground version of JM Barrie’s Neverland I just couldn’t refuse. On […]
Dreamgirls – at London’s Savoy Theatre
Dreamgirls Review: If you’re looking for a dazzling rollercoaster of a musical look no further. Dreamgirls, directed by Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin and The Book of Mormon) is showing at London’s beautiful Savoy Theatre. It ticks all the right boxes from its classic showbiz storyline to its star-spangled outfits and the impassioned soulful voices of this […]
The 4 Clowns of The Apocalypse
Absolute Theatre and Teatro do Montemuro co-production comes to London Absolute Theatre and Teatro do Montemuro announce their first co-production of The 4 Clowns of the Apocalypse. The new production of the 4 clowns of the apocalypse has been touring Portugal and the West Midlands before reaching London On On Saturday 17th February 2018, UK’s […]
Sakura at Sake no Hana for the coming of spring
Sakura installation at Sake no Hana: In a dramatic reinvention of Sakura this year, Sake no Hana, in collaboration with Perrier-Jouët Champagne, has commissioned leading paper artist Lydia Kasumi Shirreff to create a Sakura inspired art installation at their Mayfair Japanese restaurant. Spring is the perfect time to visit Japan. The Japanese cherry tree comes into blossom […]
The RSC brings Shakespeare’s Hamlet to The Hackney Empire
Hamlet in Hackney: Hamlet comes in a re-energised form to Hackney Empire after a short UK tour before heading overseas to Washington in the Royal Shakespeare Company‘s latest production, directed by Simon Godwin. What makes this production stand out is its leading man Paapa Essiedu who at the age of 27 is the first black […]