Potted Panto Richard McKee 12/12/2016 Shakespeare may have been reduced, but now pantomime has been potted. The dotty duo of Dan and Jeff have got form on genre reduction, having taken Po...
The MGM Story Richard McKee 03/09/2016 Situated beside what used to be a toll gate, the Gatehouse is a pub atop Highgate Hill boasting good food and an excellent range of real ales from mic...
Marilyn and Sinatra Richard McKee 17/08/2016 Your reviewer is old enough to remember when Frank Sinatra was having Top Ten hits and Marilyn Monroe was making Hollywood movies. He was too young at...
Blanc de Blanc Richard McKee 20/07/2016 The Hippodrome opened as a theatre next to London’s Leicester Square in 1900, and is now a vast three-floor casino, which also houses a cabaret theatr...
Impossible Richard McKee 16/07/2016 The Nöel Coward is a lovely old theatre in the heart of London’s West End. Built in 1903, older theatre-goers may remember it as The New Theatre (wel...
Hotel Black Cat Richard McKee 27/06/2016 Is it a bird, is it a bee, is it a twister?, asked Chubby Checker. Similar uncertainty arises as to what to call Hotel Black Cat. It is certainly ca...
Cirque Alfonse: Barbu Richard McKee 24/06/2016 This has been the most jam-packed hour and a quarter in your reviewer’s career. As he walked across the footbridge over the Thames to the Southbank C...
The Silver Gym Richard McKee 19/04/2016 Your reviewer had never ventured so far into darkest Essex. On and on trundled the District Line train, taking him farther and farther eastward, away...
Proper Job Richard McKee 12/03/2016 Gobsmacked! That was my initial reaction when Spencer Jones walked among us, his nether regions sheathed in white tights, beneath which white underpa...
The Great Jewish American Songbook Richard McKee 11/02/2016 Situated beside what used to be a toll gate, the Gatehouse is a pub atop Highgate Hill boasting good food and an excellent range of real ales from mic...
