Family entertainment at the Apollo Theatre, London Long summer holidays call for good family entertainment, something that the kids will love and the adults will also enjoy. Horrible Histories Live Barmy Britain – Part 5, which is showing at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End ticks all the right boxes with its witty, mad-cap […]

Tempest at the National  Firebrand poet and playwright Kae Tempest’s reworking of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, Paradise, has just opened on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage. Tempest won the Ted Hughes award for their ground-breaking medley of street poetry, rap and classical myth in Brand New Ancient. Paradise, directed by Ian Rickson, is anchored by a triumphant […]

A mischievous antidote to The Crown Inspired by the ongoing tabloid soap opera, George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore’s Channel 4 Sitcom The Windsors poked post-watershed fun at the British royal family’s penchant for scandal. Brought to the stage by director Michael Fentiman, whose delightful adaptation of Amélie is also on right now at The Criterion, […]

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Musical ‘Carousel’ One of the highlights of London summers has to be an evening at Regents Park Open Air Theatre watching a show in their iconic auditorium underneath the stars, whatever the weather. In our case, for the opening night of Carousel, it did rain a little but the show went on… […]

A delightful escape into the small, birdwatching town of Kilnsea and a sensitive look at the relationships of its inhabitants.  Big Big Sky, a new play by Tom Wells premiering at the Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, is an intimate study of relationships and small-town life. Set in a café in the Yorkshire hamlet of Kilnsea where Wells worked as a […]

Let the magic begin! I love magic shows, from the incredible sleight-of-hand tricks of close-up magic artists to the large-scale illusionists such as David Copperfield who have become international superstars, there is nothing better for me than suspending my belief and slipping into that zone of wonderment that takes us back to being a child. […]

Immersive theatre that will take you back to the 1970s. Arriving at the New Diorama Theatre for a performance of ‘Crisis? What Crisis?’ presented the first of many surprises in an exceptional evening of immersive theatre. Being new to this form of performance, I was unsure of what to expect. My ticket, handed to me […]

Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Two Character Play’   Sam Yates leaves no theatrical element unused in Tennessee Williams’ unique and complex meta-theatre. “Tonight there’ll have to be a lot of improvisation, but if we’re both lost in the play, the bits of improvisation won’t matter at all, in fact they may make the play better.”  This play, appropriately for […]

Return of a West End favourite Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong has reopened at the Duchess Theatre, its home in the West End since 2014. If you have forgotten what it’s like to experience that heady combination of shared laughter and live performance this could be the play for you. Written by Henry […]

Billionaire Boy by David Walliams Bestselling children’s author David Walliams has a string of successful stage productions behind him including the RSCs fabulous production of The Boy in the Dress and the award-winning Gangsta Granny which took the West End by storm in 2017. Now the Birmingham Stage Company have brought David Walliams’s second adaptation […]