The Rocky Horror Show continues at the Richmond Theatre, London until 28 May 2022, then tours to 28 January 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Rocky Horror Show will be 50 years old next year and this current tour shows that it’s wearing the decades very well indeed. The era […]
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Songs of Bernadette: Bernadette Robinson at The Pheasantry
Songs of Bernadette: Bernadette Robinson at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ You got 11 divas for the price of one when Bernadette Robinson, an Australian actress-singer-songwriter with a massive talent for impersonation, made a striking debut at The Pheasantry. Little known in this country until garnering excellent reviews for her one-woman musical […]
Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy – Sister Act
Sister Act was performed by students from the Associated Studios Performing Arts Academy at the Vaults Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Justina Kehinde is glitteringly talented and I’m certain that in the future I shall, as they say, be remembering where I first saw her. Delores, the nightclub singer […]
A Winter’s Tale – Youth Music Theatre UK – Rose Theatre, Kingston
A Winter’s Tale was performed by Youth Music Theatre UK at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. There’s a lot of valiant hard work in this show, directed by Bronagh Lagan with Greg Arrowsmith as MD, but the storytelling is far from clear (changing some actors in roles between acts doesn’t help) and in places it feels […]
Satin ‘n’ Steel – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Touring
Satin ‘n’ Steel was performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and then continues touring until 4 July. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Satin ‘n’ Steel is a jukebox musical done the right way round. Author Amanda Whittington has started with a good story and added songs to it. The result is an unoriginal, but compelling […]
Daniel Koek – The Pheasantry
Daniel Koek performed at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: 4 stars **** Having recently left the cast of Les Misérables as one of the longest serving Valjeans, Daniel Koek’s first live gig of 2015 afforded a rare opportunity to experience, in the intimate setting of The Pheasantry, a performance by an internationally acclaimed star of musical theatre […]
