Girl Power Musical SIX with an all-new cast SIX a ‘pop-feminist’ musical written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, started out as a Cambridge University student production at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017. It has since gone on to be a global phenomenon with productions in London’s West End, in New York at Brooks […]
The Shark is Broken – Ambassadors Theatre – Review
The Play about The Film – The Shark is Broken *stop press – run now extended – The Shark is Broken is now booking through to 13 February 2022 – stop press* Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel, Jaws is one of those films that is embedded in our collective consciousness. Trips to the seaside […]
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical – review
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical opens in the West End Bob Marley is both a pop culture icon and an embodiment of the spirit of Jamaica. The dreadlocked global superstar was not only famous for his unique sound and for trailblazing the reggae genre, in which he fused ska and rocksteady, but […]
Madam Butterfly – English National Opera – Review
Anthony Minghella’s Madam Butterfly What happens when you get an Oscar-winning film director to stage an opera? In the case of Madam Butterfly, directed by Anthony Minghella, first staged by ENO at the Coliseum in 2005, something extraordinary and beautiful. It’s a production that not only provides a new insight into the opera but also […]
The Royal Ballet’s Coppélia at The Royal Opera House – Review
The Royal Ballet’s Christmas Cracker of a Coppélia Comic ballet Coppélia is this year’s Christmas production from the Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. With a story derived from two E. T. A. Hoffmann tales, Coppélia is one of the mainstays of the classical ballet repertoire and the perfect introduction to the […]
Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House – Review
19th Century Catfishing with a Contemporary Twist. It’s a timeless tale – a rich older single man is seduced by a young woman with her sights firmly focussed on his wallet. This story has a twist though and that, together with stunning and at times provocative staging, makes the Royal Opera House’s new production of […]
Would you Adam and Eve it? There’s a new look gastropub just off Oxford Street
After a stylish refurb, the Adam & Eve Young’s pub tempts with fab food and drink but no apples… If you’re thirsty after some hardcore shopping on Oxford Street, you have to go off the strip to find a pub, as there’s only one actually on the main road. There are though many great ones […]
WAITRESS at the Aldephi Theatre – Review
Broadway musical WAITRESS hits London’s West End: On the eve of International Women’s Day, it was refreshing to see WAITRESS, a musical with such a strong all-female-led creative team, light up the West End stage. Along with the writer, director, composer, musical director and choreographer, the show also boasts three women in its lead roles. […]
Burger and Lobster Leicester Square – Review
Burger and Lobster: Hailing from the same group as the Goodman steak Restaurants and Zelman Meats, Burger and Lobster feels as if has been around forever. I remember the excitement surrounding the opening of the original Mayfair branch of Burger and Lobster a few years ago. It was the place to be seen and we are all […]
Matilda the Musical – Review
The RSC’s Matilda at the Cambridge Theatre The Royal Shakespeare Company’s fearless and moving production of Matilda, inspired by the book by Roald Dahl, was initially directed by Matthew Warchus and began life at the RSC Stratford-upon-Avon in 2010 and has been in residence at the Cambridge Theatre since 2011. Unsurprisingly, this classy show remains […]