The audience burst into heartfelt applause when it was announced, before she took her seat at the grand piano, that the glamorous chanteuse who was to...
Your reviewer was in a grumpy mood. As he walked across the footbridge over the Thames to the Southbank Centre, the sky was still heavy with the dark...
The 1960s were a great era for Gothic horror. We had Roger Corman in America, filming the stories of Edgar Allen Poe with Vincent Price, while in Eng...
A small crowd of protesters were painting the street red outside the Peacock Theatre yesterday evening. Colourful in fancy dress, these students at t...
When a uniformed flunkey opens the door to the Brasserie Zedel, just round the corner from Piccadilly Circus, you may think you are stepping into a pr...
WONDERLAND is on a UK tour, with just a few nights at the equally wonderful New Wimbledon Theatre - an Edwardian West End edifice in the suburbs. To ...
Grease was voted “the No. 1 Greatest Musical of All Time” by Channel 4 viewers in 2003. It certainly isn’t that. But it does have something, if the ...
You won’t need the details above, because – alas! – by the time you read this review you will have missed the show in the intimate upper room of one ...
The programme note said “Suitable for children aged 4+”. The poster at the venue said “Suitable for children aged 5+”. As it turned out, the show wa...
Every cloud has one, but there are clouds aplenty outside the old people’s home in Gravesend that is the setting for the première of this first full-l...