Bourne’s Glorious Adaptation of the Seminal 1940s Movie Matthew Bourne never made a secret of his love for the cinema – it’s not for nothing he named his first dance company Adventures in Motion Pictures, now New Adventures. His every stage work attests to that love by including scenes either inspired by famous, easily identifiable […]
KENREX, The Other Palace Theatre
Jack Holden Thrills Again in Small Town Americana True Crime Rerun Retro-American true crime play sensation, KENREX returns to The Other Palace Theatre for a new London run. Enjoying successes already at Sheffield Theatres’ Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse and Southwark Playhouse in 2024-2025, KENREX is a one man show, co-written by its star performer, Jack Holden, […]
Ariodante at the Royal Ballet & Opera
Baroque Vocal Fireworks at the Garden Handel composed his three-act opera seria Ariodante in 1735. It was his first opera to be performed at the Covent Garden Theatre, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House. But apart from one revival a year later and a more recent lockdown livestream, tonight’s performance of Jetske Mijnssen’s directorial […]
The Messiah – St Martin in the Fields – The Sixteen
An intimate and deeply expressive performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Sixteen Of course, everyone knows the Hallelujah Chorus. At last night’s performance of The Messiah by The Sixteen, the audience dutifully, if hesitantly, stood at the appropriate point. Legend has it that the tradition began at the first London performance of the Messiah in […]
Rebecca X Warhol
Newly Released Warhol Images vs a Brand New Homage to London As you enter the very small, glass-fronted and brightly lit 67 York Street Gallery in the Marylebone area of London, you are greeted by three historic photographs: some of the earliest portraits of Andy Warhol, taken in the early 1960s at the very beginning […]
Ebony Scrooge, ZooNation
A Hit and Miss Hip Hop Adaptation of the Dickens Classic “You know Dickens’s Christmas tale of the miser Scrooge, his clerk, Cratchit, the penniless boy called Tiny Tim, and the visits of the three ghosts?” A female voice asks, as video animation draws white figures on the darkened scrim that obscures the stage. “Well”, […]
HMS Pinafore, ENO at the Coliseum
A Triumphant HMS Pinafore Sets Sail at the ENO When I was at prep school in the 1960s, a series of old military buffers came to give a lecture to my motley group of school friends about how we were predestined to run the British Empire; this was always an unlikely prospect since our colonial […]
The Great Christmas Feast, The Lost Estate
The Great Christmas Feast is the perfect way to dive headfirst into the festive season. Hosted by The Lost Estate in its West Kensington home, this immersive Dickensian experience has been delighting audiences since 2018, whisking guests straight to Victorian London on Christmas Eve, 1843. Visitors are encouraged to don their Christmas finery, with many going fully Victorian, as they step into Dickens’ world to hear A Christmas Carol performed as if for the very first time.
A Glitzy, Modern Day Nutcracker Comes to London
Choreographer Valentino Zucchetti Interview A brand new Nutcracker is about to come to London. A New English Ballet Theatre (NEBT) production, it’s characteristically innovative, glitzy and set in the modern day. It stole a march on all other Nutcrackers by hitting the stage at the end of October. After a tour of small UK […]
Paddington The Musical – The Savoy Theatre
Paddington, Perfectly Packed For The Stage Paddington The Musical bursts onto the West End with all the warmth of a freshly toasted marmalade sandwich, transforming Michael Bond’s beloved stowaway into a joyous, big-hearted stage star. What could have been a nostalgia-soaked cash-in instead arrives as a genuinely charming, sharply crafted family spectacle, witty enough for […]