By Stuart King Wednesday, August 17 2022, 22:08
CRUISE is based on Jack Holden’s personal experiences volunteering in his youth at the London Gay Switchboard Helpline during the 1980s — and he deploys a particularly effective device to segue the audience into that hedonistic lost realm. One clumsily-handled call catapults us to Soho during its heyday and a time in which the AIDS crisis has only just begun to creep into the wider consciousness.
Jack Holden in Cruise at the Apollo Theatre. Photo Pamela Raith.
By Miriam Gibson Monday, August 8 2022, 11:31
“Gentlemen, if we pull this off it will be the greatest escape mankind has ever made”. Low stakes, then, in this enjoyable play depicting of the escape from Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp.
Tom, Dick & Harry begins in 1943, with a motley crew of captured airmen imprisoned in Stalag Luft camp in Nazi Germany. British pilots Ballard and Wings are the stereotypical posh-boy pilots seen in many stories about the RAF. But Tom, Dick & Harry also shines a light on airmen from across Europe, as well as Australia and the Caribbean. The band of heroes is winning, if broadly-drawn.
By Stuart King Monday, August 8 2022, 09:30
Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s perennial favourite SOUTH PACIFIC, is playing a limited London engagement at Sadler’s Wells until 28th August.
South Pacific at Sadler's Wells. Photo Johan Persson.
By Stuart King Friday, August 5 2022, 09:36
There can be few taboo subjects which induce the level of instantaneously awkward and uncomfortable human interactions than confronting unexpected physical disability. In Ms Wobbly’s funny and moving play ALL OF US, the audience are let off lightly, for it is largely a joy and although painful in sections, ultimately enlightening and thought-provoking.
Wanda Opalinska (Nadia+Marcella) and Oliver-Alvin Wilson (Dom+Bob) in All of Us at the National Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray.
By London Box Office Monday, August 1 2022, 09:53
The Michael Grandage Company is delighted to announce that Emma Corrin will return to the London stage as the title role in Orlando, in the novel by Virginia Woolf. This is a brand a new version by Neil Bartlett. The production will debut in the West End in late autumn 2022. The dates and the venue will be announced before long, so keep your eyes open.
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