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Legally Blonde - The Musical
International award-winning, Legally Blonde The Musical, has arrived. The uplifting feel-good musical adaptation opened in Melbourne on May 09 at the Princess Theatre, after gracing audiences in Brisbane and Sydney. Read more...
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Jack Dee
Jack Dee is a misery guts and proud of it. He wears the whinging, grumpy, Englishman tag to a tee; it bodes him well. Read more...
3 For The Price Of 1 theatre preview
Southsea-based writer/director Roger Goldsmith presents three new short plays (for the price of one!) in what promises to be a hard-hitting excursion into the darker side of the human mind. Read more...
Crazy For You
I love a Gershwin tune, how about you' Ok, you don’t have to LOVE Gershwin tunes to enjoy this utterly delightful comedy musical, but of course it helps. Read more...
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Tommy
Joe McElderry, took to the stage last night for his west end debut playing the lead in Tommy, The Who rock opera , for a one night production Read more...
Jekyll & Hyde
Look at me! I’m the spectre of everyone’s nightmares! This world premiere and re-working of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic is sharp and smartly presented Read more...
Jessica Ibbotson - set design
Eclectic artist Jessica Ibbotson displays talent for many things, like languages and music. However, it’s her particular talent for art and design that makes her stand out. Read more...
Tom Stade - Live
After collecting our tickets for tonight's performance we nervously make our way to the front of the venue......... Read more...
The Unrest Cure
The Unrest Cure takes you back to the early 1930s, when English language and mannerisms seemed to belong to an era most modern folk would find themselves at loss with. Read more...
Revenge Of The Grand Guignol
As part of the current London Horror Festival, the Courtyard Theatre stages four tales of terror guaranteed to make you jump with fear! Read more...
Proud Cabaret DECADES launch
Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome! Proud Cabaret and Idea Generation invited to the launch of an all new extravaganza, exploring the art of cabaret and burlesque Read more...
Rocky Horror Night at Vision Sound Festival
As part of the Vision Sound Music Festival, taking place at the Southbank over three days, a special Rocky Horror Night was held with special guest Richard O’Brien and composer Richard Hartley. Read more...
Eva Gray and Christian Devellerez interviews
Eva Gray and Christian Devellerez currently can be seen at Pentameters Theatre, Hampstead, in Robert Calvert’s futuristic fantasy ‘Mirror Mirror’. Read more...
Mirror Mirror
It’s Thursday evening and I am off to see a futuristic play set in the year 2030, which was written back in 1979 by Hawkwind’s Robert Calvert. No wonder the tagline reads ‘Nostalgia for the Future!’ Read more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays – the magical A Midsummer Night’s Dream gets an inspired and unique makeover in this open-air production – performed at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington, North London. Read more...
Rorschach In Russia
This is as much an ambition play as it is an ambition stage production, but whether you will learn more about history depends entirely on how you perceive things – literally! Read more...
Woody Allen's 'Play It Again, Sam'
What’s shorter than Woody Allen’s height' The first act of this entertaining fringe production of Woody’s famous stage play. Read more...
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Trial Of The Mariner
This immersive new multimedia play by Lotos Collective is an innovative re-working of Rime Of The Ancient Mariner and will be performed throughout May at Hoxton Hall, East London’s original music hall. Read more...
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Where would the British entertainment industry be without Jane Austen, I often wonder' Or period dramas in general. Well then, here’s to the umpteenth Jane Austen adaptation. This Read more...
Shadow Shows
Upon entering the smoke-filled Patrick Centre (a part of the Hippodrome in Birmingham), you'd be excused from thinking that we'd just stepped onto an enchanting Dagobah, awaiting Yoda to arise from the mist, as the lack of sight heightened all other senses into bewilderment. Read more...
Buried Child
Welcome to dysfunctional rural Illinois in 1978, where nothing is like it seems and family values crumble as much as the squalid farmhouse in which Buried Child is set. The play, written by acclaimed actor and director Sam Shepard, won a ‘Pulitzer Price For Drama’ in 1979 and put Shepard firmly on the map as a respected playwright. Read more...
The Long Mirror
Written in 1940, this little known play by J.B. Priestley (An Inspector Calls, Benighted) is a supernatural mystery (astral travelling to be precise) set in a small private hotel deep in the Welsh Hills. To be frank, it is not an easy play to stage, especially as there is no change Read more...
A Slice Of Saturday Night musical
A Slice Of Saturday Night is a marvellous slice of 60’s nostalgia, taking you back in time when teenagers discovered everything there is to know about love, life, music… and the occasional heartbreak, all taking place in the ‘Club A-Go-Go’. Read more...
Sunday Morning at The Centre of the World
Actor and director Sean Turner is embracing the literary arts with his fine adaptation of Louis De Berniere’s play; Sunday Morning at The Centre of the World, to be performed at Tooting Tram & Social Club. Read more...
Chris Dugdale - Magic and Mindreading
Wooed by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Sir Richard Branson, the Queen, Jimmy Page and Sir Roger Moore (to name but a few), world-class magician and mind-boggling mind-reader Chris Dugdale will no doubt wow the crowds all over again with his new show at Riverside Studios! Read more...
Avenue Q - The Musical
’All roads lead to Avenue Q’ goes the tagline for the Tony award-winning musical. It was no different when on Monday, 28th of June, all roads led to the Wyndham’s Theatre, Charing Cross Road, for the musical’s 4th anniversary bash! Read more...
Calamity Jane - The Musical
Welcome to Deadwood, South Dakota, where gunslinger tomboy Calamity Jane is having a yee-hah of a time in the local saloon bar, joined by fellow cowboys, townsfolk and the famous Wild Bill Hickock. Read more...
Daniel Deronda
Adapting George Eliot’s epic novel Daniel Deronda (a whopping 800 pages with a plot as complex as 19th century etiquette) for television must be a challenge for any film director. Adapting it for fringe theatre must seem like ‘mission impossible’ Read more...
Dirty White Boy - Tales Of Soho
For those not acquainted with Clayton Littlewood’s book of the same title, Dirty White Boy used to be the name of a clothes shop at Old Compton Street – and it was owned by Littlewood from 2006 - 2008. Read more...
Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story
“The day the music died” sang Don McLean in his famous song ‘American Pie’. He was referring to the 3rd February 1959, when a chartered plane carrying rock ‘n’ roll heroes Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP ‘Big Bopper’ Richardson crashed into a snow covered field in Iowa. Read more...