Tag Archives | Drayton Arms Theatre

Fallen Angel – Drayton Arms Theatre

Fallen Angel continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 29 March 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ This is a bold piece of theatre with a lot of heart in it.

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Tickle – Drayton Arms Theatre

Tickle continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 1 October 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Tickle is a show which manages to embody a wonderful dichotomy of giggly fun and titillating seriousness; the very same dichotomy that exists within the act of tickling itself. The show, with book, music and lyrics […]

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London return for Soho Boy and debut for musical comedy Tickle

New one-man musical Soho Boy will play an encore season at London’s Drayton Arms Theatre following the show’s upcoming performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. Written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly, the musical which charts the joys and perils of moving to London will return to the Old Brompton Road venue from […]

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Soho Boy: A New Musical – Drayton Arms Theatre

Soho Boy continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 4 June 2022, then heads to theSpace @ Symposium Hall (Venue 43) as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe from 5 to 27 August 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If the name didn’t make it obvious enough, it’s crystal clear from the […]

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Actor makes his professional debut in new one-man musical Soho Boy

Owen Dennis will make his professional debut in Soho Boy when the new one-man musical opens at the Drayton Arms Theatre in London next month before heading to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. Written and composed by Paul Emelion Daly, the musical which charts the joys and perils of moving to London will play […]

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Baby – Drayton Arms Theatre, London

Baby continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 9 November 2018. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The musical theatre composing duo Maltby and Shire are best known for the 1989 revue Closer Than Ever, a song cycle with looks at all stages of love and romance. The composers described that […]

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Drayton Arms Theatre

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 16 June 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ William Finn first came to wider attention with his musical March of the Falsettos in 1981, the middle piece of his Falsetto trilogy. It won awards, transferred to Broadway […]

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Marry Me a Little – Drayton Arms Theatre

Marry Me a Little continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 26 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★★★✩✩ As admirers of Marry Me a Little will know, the musical takes songs that didn’t make Sondheim’s well-known repertoire of shows and designs a whole new storyline just for them. The hour-long musical doesn’t contain any dialogue […]

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Ordinary Days – Drayton Arms Theatre

Ordinary Days continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 9 December. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩  ✩ Like any form of drama, musical theatre thrives on a diversity of form. Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days for instance is a through-sung, character-led piece enhanced by minimalist staging. As the title suggests, its themes […]

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When Midnight Strikes – Drayton Arms Theatre

When Midnight Strikes continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 12 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ In all likelihood, it is one of life’s experiences to be present at a New Year’s Eve party that has been more of an endurance test than a celebration. The party marked in […]

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Ordinary Days to play the Drayton Arms Theatre

Ordinary Days, one of the ten musicals shortlisted for our inaugural Musical Theatre Review Best Musical Award at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will return to London to play the Drayton Arms Theatre from 21 November until 9 December, with a press night on 22 November. Presented by Streetlight, People! Productions, the winner of the […]

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Cast for revival of When Midnight Strikes at the Drayton Arms Theatre

Final casting has been announced for the London revival of British musical When Midnight Strikes later this month. Running from 17 October until 12 November with a press night on 24 October at the Drayton Arms in South Kensington, the production will be directed by Marc Kelly with musical direction by Oli Rew. The production […]

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Birds of Paradise – Drayton Arms Theatre

Birds of Paradise continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 20 May. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ It’s always refreshing to review at a venue you haven’t been to before, and just in case any visitors were unsure that this rather plush gastro pub was indeed home to MKEC Productions’ […]

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Buzz – A New Musical – Drayton Arms Theatre

Buzz – A New Musical continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 29 October. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Described as ‘Bridget Jones meets Book of Mormon’, Fat Rascal Theatre’s Buzz is an outrageous – and outrageously funny – potted history of, principally, the vibrator. But it’s also a rundown of the […]

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Lucky Stiff – Drayton Arms Theatre

Lucky Stiff continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 14 May. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ The less said about this musical farce, this desperately unfunny debut effort by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty long before they hit the big-time with Ragtime and Seussical, the better. A game, energetic cast of ten […]

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The Baker’s Wife – Drayton Arms Theatre

The Baker’s Wife continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★  The French obsession with bread – even over the whereabouts of a loved-up runaway baker’s wife – is at the core of Stephen Schwartz’s sweet and tuneful musical comedy that never quite made it in the […]

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The Theory of Relativity – Drayton Arms Theatre

The Theory of Relativity continues at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London until 13 June. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ Eight vibrant young talents give 100 per cent to some excellent ballads, amusing duets and even a wild-eyed monologue by an obsessive germaphobe in this very American chamber musical that first saw the light of day in Toronto two years ago. Written […]

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