By Phil Willmott Sunday, February 19 2017, 10:28
This one sounds like a classy if old fashioned evening.
Whilst Damian Lewis takes a week off from performing at the Haymarket Theatre due to prior commitments the 80 year old film, TV and stage star Edward Fox will return to the West End in a one man play about the former Poet Laureate John Betjeman.
By Nastazja Domaradzka Friday, February 17 2017, 12:50
After you spend a lot of time in the theatre, be it watching or making it, sooner or later you begin to yearn for a surprise. You want to see work that will stop your breath, stay with you for a long while and make you question the status-quo in a creative and non patronising way. After missing THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT last summer at Edinburgh Fringe I finally managed to see the piece at this year's The Vault Festival, and I can't express how mind blown I was by Adam Scott- Rowley's absurdist and hypnotising one man show.
By Phil Willmott Friday, February 17 2017, 12:40
With Charlie and his Chocolate factory recently leaving the West End for Broadway it seems right that ANNIE, the archetype Broadway kids show will be revived in London to help fill demand for family shows.
Not that there's any shortage of productions competing for your family's money. Once they were few and far between but now most theatres present a daytime kids show, installed to be performed on top of the set for the evening show.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, February 16 2017, 08:39
Tom Stoppard is one of those playwrights that make you feel clever just by buying a ticket.
"Look" your ticket tells the world, "I'm a person who will appreciate a wordy play based on an intellectual conceit"
Those tickets sell like hot cakes to London's intelligentsia.
By Daniel Perks Monday, February 13 2017, 10:00
A no frills analysis of an atypical love story, Glitter Punch is a cleverly understated production that is most impactful in the things it doesn’t say. Leave the outcome a cliffhanger to increase the sense of intrigue.
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