4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Rock of Ages Richard McKee 22/09/2021 Only two weeks ago the New Wimbledon Theatre, opening at last after so many months of ‘restrictions’, was packed with fans of the musical Waitress, an...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ MXNIFESTO Richard McKee 17/09/2021 Titania Gethsemane McGrath is “a spoof radical intersectionalist poet”. When I read that before the show, I was puzzled. What on earth is an interse...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Waitress Richard McKee 10/09/2021 ‘Waitress’ may not (yet) have gone the way of ‘actress’, but Waitress has come to Wimbledon with a whoosh. Last night may have been Press Night, but ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Invisible Me Richard McKee 04/09/2021 Sex in the Sixties? Well, that was the decade of sexual liberation (though it rather passed your reviewer by). But sex for the over-sixties? Back i...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 360 Allstars Richard McKee 26/07/2021 A world champion BMX Flatlander, two champion break dancers, an internationally acclaimed basketball freestyler, a world-renowned cyr wheel artist, a ...
The Tempest Richard McKee 16/03/2020 The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, and once again the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre has proved that small can be beautiful and the ver...
The Red Shoes Richard McKee 11/03/2020 It takes more than a spot of Coronavirus to keep the crowds away from the New Wimbledon Theatre. There were few empty seats on the opening night of th...
Corpse! Richard McKee 08/03/2020 A ”brilliant comedy thriller”, according to the New York Post. So it says on the programme, and I don’t mind borrowing that accolade. Just around the ...
On Your Feet! Richard McKee 26/02/2020 The audience were not saying “On your bike!” to On Your Feet! In fact, the entire audience were on their feet at the end of the show, swaying to the i...
The Dog Walker Richard McKee 15/02/2020 The small and intimate Jermyn Street Theatre was completely packed on Valentine’s Night, but there were perhaps not many courting couples in the audie...