The big West End news of recent days has been the announcement that the stage version of Baz Lurman’s hit Hollywood musical MOULIN ROUGE is to transfer from Broadway to the Piccadilly Theatre, London, and no ones more excited than me.
Theatre News and Reviews
21 Oct
New Shows 
MOULIN ROUGE is coming to London!!! What can we expect?
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 21 2019, 15:07
21 Oct
Quizzes
From Screen to Stage: Try our just for fun quiz
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 21 2019, 10:53
Sean Foleys staging of the classic British film comedy, The Man in the White Suit, which recently opened to mixed reviews, adds to the West End’d long list of recent, current and forthcoming shows adapted from movies.
Here’s our just for fun quiz based on London’s current crop of celluloid adaptations, running, leaving and about to open in the capital.
21 Oct
Reviews 
Review: THE GIRL WHO FELL at Trafalgar Studios
By Miriam Gibson Monday, October 21 2019, 10:11
"My friends would think it was less weird if I'd run off to Syria to join ISIS", sighs 15-year-old Billie, explaining her decision to quit social media. Instead, Billie is obsessed with an app which supplies her with facts and quotes, which she's fond of reciting to those around her.
14 Oct
News
Comedies on Stage: ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES, UPSTART CROW & UP POMPEII
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 14 2019, 20:38
Hit TV shows don’t traditionally make good theatre. They’re tightly crafted to work within a thirty minute frame work and can seem over stretched when padded out to two plus hours.
But audiences love the familiar and the chance to see their favourite characters live is irresistible whether or not they’re played by the same actors as on TV, just as long as they look and sound like the originals and have the same catch phrases.
14 Oct
Reviews 
Review: GHOST STORIES at The Ambassadors Theatre
By John Yap Monday, October 14 2019, 10:35
Nine years after its premiere at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2010, GHOST STORIES returns to London for the fourth time (Duke of York Theatre 2010, Arts Theatre 2014, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre again 2019). A movie was made in the midst of an International tour from Moscow to Shanghai via Lima, Sydney and Toronto. As the main character, Professor Goodman, asks the audience at the start of the show, “Why did you come to see this play?”. Why indeed, but they do.
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