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Writer: Owen McCafferty Director: Jonathan Humphreys Reviewer: John Roberts This production was first seen at the Arcola Theatre in March of this year, and has now become the first show for the theatre to get a west end transfer, and does this show deserve such a transfer? You bet! Mojo Mickybo written by Owen McCafferty [...]

Director:Gary Griffen Conductors: Richard Hickox and Simon Lee Reviewer: Jeffrey Mayhew As frothy entertainment goes Kismet has a lot going for it. Whilst this 1953 musical hasn’t the conscience of Showboat, say, or the intellectual weight of a piece like West Side Story there is plenty therein to please most West End aficionados. The original [...]

Writer: Marie Jones Director: Natalie Wilson Reviewer: Greg Kelly The first thing to point out in this review is that I am a 22-year-old bloke going see a play about the trials and tribulations of being a middle age woman. Not mention one of the main issues in the play being ‘The Dreaded Change,’ The [...]

Writer: William Mastrosimone Director: Noah Lee Margetts Reviewer: John Roberts Cat’s Paw is set in Washington DC, within the disused warehouse and secret base of Eco Warrior group Earth Now. 5 weeks since they kidnapped local man David Darling (Kenneth Jay), Earth Now’s rebel leader Victor (Noah Lee Margetts) needs more attention for his campaign [...]

Writer:  Allan Katz, Erick Frandsen, Michael Garin, Robert Hipkens and Paula Lockheart Director: Mark Babych Reviewer: Stephanie Rowe I went along to watch this performance not really knowing what to expect, I was told it was a musical set in a bar in 1941 Singapore and was expecting something along the lines of Miss Saigon. [...]

Writer: Shoji Kokami Director: Shoji Kokami Reviewer: Mark Valencia A tragi-comic three-hander about mental illness… minimal white décor… we’ve been here before, surely? Certainly somewhere very like it; but, new as it is to British audiences, Shoji Kokami’s play actually predates Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange by several years. Sadly, though, Trance is not in the same [...]

Writer: Amanda Whittington Compser: Grant Olding Director: Nikolai Foster Choreographer: Zoobin Surty Reviewer: Lyndsey Holmes Yorkshire is about to host the International Indian film Academy Awards, and Bollywood Jane, which is part of the fringe festival for this event, is the perfect show to get you in the mood! Bollywood jane tells the story of [...]

Writer: Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart & George Oppenheimer Director: Martin Connor Choreographer: Bill Deamer Reviewer: Linda Hutton A rare opportunity presents itself for musical comedy lovers to see a new adaptation of Rodgers and Hart’s Babes in Arms at the Chichester Festival Theatre. This latest version is based on the original script, which was a [...]