4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Threepenny Opera Ben Reiss 21/08/2023 The Berliner Ensemble’s The Threepenny Opera opens with a personification of the moon singing ‘The Ballad of Mack the Knife’, the song’s gruesome lyrics about a vicious killer contrasting sharply with the singe...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Spiral Emma Burnell 18/08/2023 I don't often do this, but I am going to retell something I overheard during the interval of Spiral. I was outside getting what I will euphemistically refer to as 'fresh air' and I overheard two women talking a...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Life and Loves of a Broadway Baby: An Evening with Melissa Adi Ginat 12/07/2023 The Crazy Coqs never fails to ignite a sense of anticipation for a great show and a fun evening and “The Life and Loves of a Broadway Baby: An Evening with Melissa Errico” certainly delivers on that promise- pa...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Return of Benjamin Lay Owen Davies 20/06/2023 This a remarkable piece of storytelling from the team at the Finborough. Wallace and Rediker have an important story to tell and, in Povinelli, they have found the ideal performer to tell it. The Finborough is ...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 42nd Street Rivka Jacobson 16/06/2023 This new production of the original showbiz musical, 42nd Street is an iconic tap dance show with dazzling performances and abundance elegance and glitter. It offers a delectable reminder of a fairy-tale fused ...
2.0★ ★ Frankie & Beausy Adi Ginat 07/06/2023 Frankie & Beausy is a sung through show consisting of a mix of well-known and lesser-known songs to narrate the love story between Frankie, played by West End star Frances Ruffelle, (Les Miserables, Chicago...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Egyptians Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023 While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition, how often do we stop to think about how little we know of this art form and how it was perform...
3.0★ ★ ★ Dinner with Groucho Mel Cooper 15/11/2022 Dinner with Groucho is a kind of one-act fantasia on the historic fact that T S Eliot and Groucho Marx were pen pals who met once late in their lives to dine together when Groucho came to London. There was a lo...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A Gig for Ghosts Richard Voyce 28/10/2022 A Gig for Ghosts. Is it a play? Is it a musical? Well, it has songs, but they don’t really function as you’d expect them to in a musical, so let’s call it a play with songs. That hardly matters, really, as ...
2.0★ ★ Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea Julie Peakman 14/07/2022 An entirely black and bare stage replicates the interior of a container where three migrants are crossing an ocean. The only props are the things they have with them - one carries only a knife, another a rucksa...
