Combine a pinch of Grease with your average American chick-flick, mix it together with a big dollop of ladies night sentiment and you have the fun, bubbly and fabulously sound-tracked musical that is Vanities. In its European debut, the musical explores poignant themes of unmet ambitions and expectations […]
How To Win Against History The Oval House 21 Jul – 23 Jul, 7:30pm How To Win Against History is a three man musical which charts the life of Henry Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey. Regrettably, the full account of this man’s life was lost to the ashes, […]
A quarter mile long and packed with a myriad of human stories, the tale of the Titanic is epic in proportions, and yet Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento’s production retells the tragedy with heart felt simplicity. After its hugely successful run at Southwark Playhouse in 2013, the musical […]
For a man perhaps not in the first trembling blush of youth, trucking down Upper Street singing ‘Glitter Boots set me free’ and ‘Let me be a Space Vixen’ was not my moment of greatest gravitas, it’s true, but this is a show where you check your dignity […]
This is Sasha Regan’s All-Male Production of H.M.S. Pinafore, so Gilbert and Sullivan purists be warned. The conceit is that the production is being staged in the hold of a World War II battleship as the men are passing the time and letting off steam. The programme […]
Songs for the End of the World is a wondrous mix of song and storytelling. A combination of Kneehigh and Little Bulb talents, the performers create a dystopian world set in New Albion; a world with so few ‘safe zones’ that the human race look to Mars to […]
I like comedy. I like it a lot. I like musicals too. Musical comedies, I absolutely love, therefore, so much so that this is the second one I have seen this year based on the well-known hospital-where-the-male-love-interest-is-in-a-coma-for-most-of-the-show formula (see Shock Treatment). But the people around me wouldn’t have […]
‘Wait… wait… Hammerstein…Bernstein…Sondheim… Gershwin – they were Jewish? You could knock me down with a matzo.’ Thus will not be the train of thought of any but the dopiest of theatre-goers. The title of this show (yanked from Spamalot)has the remarkable property of being both obvious and wrong. […]
A lot of amateur theatre these days is very good, and there are reasons for that. The whole process is so time and resource consuming that unless people are really dedicated, really interested in producing an outstanding product, they tend to go and find something else to do […]
It is not only die-hard fans who will be aware that the now-legendary film Rocky Horror Picture Show was a flop when first released. Fewer will know that it acquired sufficient cult status to lead to the creation of the 1981 follow up, Shock Treatment, which promptly became […]
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