Building on last year’s success at the pop-up theatre behind the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank, the bawdy La Soiree cabaret/circus experience has returned to Camden’s Roundhouse for a limited run until 29 January 2012. The Roundhouse is the perfect venue for the show’s current stint as performances take place on a small circular stage […]
Shalom Baby @ Theatre Royal Stratford East – A Review
Shalom Baby is the new play from writer and director Ricky Beadle Blair, which runs at the Theatre Royal Stratford East until 19 November. Juxtaposing the lives of a Jewish family caught up in the madness of 1940s Berlin and a dysfunctional Jewish family in present day New York, as with all of Beadle Blair’s […]
The Office Party Show – A Review
Towards the end of the week I went to what is probably the weirdest theatre performance I have ever experienced – the Office Party Show, which runs in one of the Pleasance Theatre’s performance spaces until January 2012. Devised by Christopher Green and cabaret star Ursula Martinez (notorious for her ‘Hanky Panky’ magic routine which […]
The Flying Karamzov Brothers @ Vaudeville Theatre – A Review
Last night I was over at the Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand to check out the Flying Karamazov Brothers – a group of juggling American comedians and musicians (wearing kilts!) who are playing at the theatre until September. It was an interesting evening, involving jazz, gentle comedy and some absolutely remarkable feats of juggling. Of […]
Takeaway The Musical @ Theatre Royal Stratford East – A Review
Last night saw me at the Theatre Royal Stratford East for the new musical, ‘Takeaway‘ which is intriguingly subtitled ‘The Devil in Tom Jones’… Created by a team consisting of Robert Lee and Leon Ko, and directed by Stratford East’s Kerry Michael, the main thrust of the piece centres around Eddie Woo’s struggle to respect traditional […]
Mad Blud @ The Theatre Royal Stratford East – A Review
Last night I was down at the Theatre Royal Stratford East to see a performance of Mad Blud, the play about knife crime, which has a 10 day run at the theatre. Created by Philip Osment, the play is now in its third incarnation having been refined over several years of performances at the theatre. […]
Funk It Up About Nothin @ Theatre Royal Stratford East – Review
Last night we were at the Theatre Royal Stratford East to see the opening night of the new take on Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Funk It Up About Nothin‘. Presented by the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Merrigong Theatre Company and Richard Jordan Productions and produced and written by the Q Brothers, ‘Funk It Up […]