Much-loved 90s Scottish cult classic movie about heroin addiction gets a slightly baffling musical makeover Thirty years ago back in my provincial hometown, I sat down in the local movie theatre to watch Trainspotting. The subject matter (heroin addiction) did not sound like something that I would ordinarily be interested in, but everyone was talking […]
The Original Ivy – Classic Set Menu
Old-School Glamour at an Affordable Price: The Ivy West Street Delivers If there’s one restaurant in London that is intrinsically linked with the West End and Theatreland, it’s The Ivy on West Street. Of course, it wasn’t always that way. The original Ivy opened in 1917, an unlicensed Italian cafe founded by Abel Giandolini. It […]
That’ll Be The Day – The London Palladium
Musical nostalgia on steroids as this crowd-pleasing standby embarks on a 40th anniversary tour Cast your mind back forty years to 1986, and I’m sure you’ll agree that the world was a very different place. The Berlin Wall (and the USSR) had not yet fallen; smartphones did not exist; Margaret Thatcher was still Prime Minister; […]
FRANKENSTEIN UNCHAINED! – Phoenix Arts Club
Madeline Smith Unleashes the Monster I’m quite a fan of Gothic horror movies. As a young teenager, I experienced the gloriously Technicolour-saturated world of the Hammer movies late on Saturday night TV when no one was keeping an eye on me. A star of several of those films, ‘Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell’ (with […]
ENO Cinderella (La Cenerentola) Review – Rossini Reimagined
Overall, Cinderella at ENO is a fabulous opera that will give the whole family a great evening of entertainment, and it has just the right level of contemporary relevance to provide an empathetic show that will keep everyone engaged. There are moments of magic that simply shouldn’t be revealed in a review – so you’ll just have to go along and find out for yourself.
News: Othello – Theatre Royal, Haymarket
A scorching new production of Shakespeare’s Othello is set to blaze onto the West End stage this autumn, led by an extraordinary cast of screen and stage powerhouses. Opening at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 23 October 2025, the show features David Harewood OBE as Othello, marking a powerful return to the role that once cemented his legacy in British theatre.
Joining Harewood are Toby Jones OBE as the venomous Iago and Caitlin FitzGerald as the defiant and intelligent Desdemona. The cast also features Vinette Robinson (Boiling Point) making her West End debut as Emilia, and Olivier Award-winner Luke Treadaway as the tragic Cassio.
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Mischief Unveils Cast of New Holiday Comedy “Christmas Carol Goes Wrong” Christmas is coming and Mischief – the award-winning comedy company behind West End hits The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About Spies – has revealed the full cast for its newest theatrical disasterpiece, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong. It’s a must-see, must-book Christmas […]
Clueless: The Musical, Trafalgar Theatre Review
Whether you’re revisiting Cher’s world or discovering it for the first time, this production of Clueless is a fun, smart, and thoroughly entertaining ride
The Score at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket
It was a big night in theatreland with the press launch for Oliver Cotton’s new play, THE SCORE at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Directed by Trevor Nunn and with Hollywood and TV megastar Brian Cox (Logan Roy in the HBO hit series Succession) in the lead role playing composer Johann Sebastian Bach, it is clearly a big deal for producing house the Theatre Royal Bath where the show originated.
MJ The Musical – Prince Edward Theatre
MJ The Musical gathers one of the most iconic collections of pop music ever written into a single show that is as close to the excitement of being at a Michael Jackson gig as you can get in 2025, yet ultimately shies away from addressing the elephant in the room or exploring any hitherto-unknown details of his complicated and sometimes problematic life.