Showing at the Theatre Royal Stratford East for a few more days, current production Love N Stuff takes a wry look at a midlife crisis as it plays out in a London airport lounge… Set on a stark white stage with the theatre reconfigured into  a small ‘studio’ format (both actors and audience are behind […]

Playing Upstairs At The Gatehouse in Highgate until 29 September, When Midnight Strikes is the latest musical production from Penny Rock Theatre Productions and Aria Entertainment. Imagine the scene – an eclectic group of people are gathered together in a highrise New York apartment on New Year’s Eve 1999 for the party to end all […]

As part of it’s UK tour, Sell A Door Theatre Company’s new production Sincerely, Mr Toad is enjoying a short run at the Greenwich Theatre this week. With music by David Andrew Wilson and lyrics by Katie McIvor, Sincerely, Mr Toad is a musical biopic, telling the life story of the fantastically inventive author Kenneth […]

The musical version of 1980’s movie Dirty Dancing is currently playing at the Piccadilly Theatre – it’s second incarnation after a phenomenally successful five year run at the Aldwych Theatre – and earlier this week I went along to see it. Now let’s start by stating the obvious, and that as that I am not […]

Currently playing in the disused basement of a print factory off an old council estate in Hoxton, Dirty Market’s Oxbow Lakes is a very strange beast indeed – an odd mixture of reality and fantasy that exposes the dilemma faced by every new parent. How can you continue to maintain your comfortable lifestyle when you’ve […]

Following on from his new translation of Machiavelli’s Mandrake, playwright Howard Colyer has returned to SE4’s Brockley Jack Studio Theatre with three new plays – Never Have I Seen Mount Fuji, Conference Call and Nothing Else Ever. Presented by Ballast Theatre, the first play in the trio stars John Paton as Harold, a senior civil […]

Lucy Kirkwood’s feted new play Chimerica is currently running at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre, and I went along last weekend to see what all the fuss is about… Sensitively directed by Lyndsey Turner, the play centres around Joe (Stephen Campbell Moore), the American photographer who captured the image that shocked the world in 1989 – […]