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. […]
Secrets Of The Empire at The VOID – Westfield Stratford City
The Empire Gets Interactive! I was on a mission! My 16-year-old son and I jumped on the Jubilee Line, zipped across to Stratford tube station for our first visit to Westfield Stratford City. the pioneering shopping and leisure destination. It’s right next to the Olympic Park and has more than 300 stores as well as being famous for […]
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 […]
A Night at the Opera – La Traviata, ENO at the Coliseum
ENO at the London Coliseum – La Traviata: Opera, the marmite of the musical world – as a young musician it wasn’t until I left home and went to University that I actually went to the opera, thanks to other family members being firmly in the ‘hate it’ camp. But, of course, Opera was very much […]
AUSTENTATIOUS – An Improvised Jane Austen Novel – extends run at Savoy Theatre
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel As its name suggests, this quirky theatre production, ‘Austentatious’ is based on the much-loved novelist Jane Austen and it is certainly hilarious with some of the best comic actors giving ‘ostentatious’ a new meaning. I was accompanied by ‘the teenager’, a drama scholar, to see a Sunday evening showing […]
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 […]
Fit Feasting with Matt Campbell at Cloud M, London
Nutritional Gastronomy – Fine Dining Reinvented by Matt Campbell: Where do you go as a Professional Masterchef, when you have trained at Simon Rogan’s L’Eclume, come second in the BBC Young Chef of the year by the tender age of 20 and been recognised by Marcus Wareing for your signature dish of “Cod Cheeks, Spirulina, Kale […]
DC Exhibition: Dawn of Super Heroes at the O2
Super Heroes at the O2: The DC Super Heroes exhibition offers us a glimpse into a fantasy world where impregnable but often flawed do-gooders take on the forces of evil and win! With 80 years of history, characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman have become mythological figures embedded in our popular culture and reinvented […]
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 […]