Gwyneth Goes Skiing continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 16 February 2024. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It offers a fun evening that celebrates the campness inherent within Hollywood A-list celebrity in a very queer, and uniquely Awkward, way.
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The Concrete Jungle Book – Pleasance Theatre
The Concrete Jungle Book continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 11 June 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The HighRise theatre collective first created The Concrete Jungle Book in 2017, working with young people from the Centrepoint homeless charity to present a tale in which Rudyard Kipling’s jungle stories are retold […]
An Evening With The Good Enough Mums Club – Pleasance Theatre and Touring
An Evening With The Good Enough Mums Club was reviewed at the Pleasance Theatre, London. The show can also be seen at the Mast Mayflower Studios, Southampton on 6 May 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Emily Beecher’s show, with songs composed by Chris Passey, has been in development for ten years. […]
Express G&S – Pleasance Theatre
Express G&S continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 2 July 2021 (Wednesday to Friday) before embarking on a UK tour. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Billed as “When Agatha Christie meets Gilbert and Sullivan”, Express G&S is a new parlour production from Charles Court Opera inspired by the one-act frivolities popular […]
London premiere for Charles Court Opera’s Express G&S
Charles Court Opera has emerged from lockdown with the London premiere of musical murder mystery Express G&S and a UK tour of its acclaimed production of Iolanthe. Described as ‘the masters of G&S in small spaces’, the company will present its new spoof of the classic railway whodunnit at the newly configured, socially distanced Pleasance […]
Reschedued dates announced for the world premiere of Express G&S
Due to the upcoming lockdown Express G&S will now get its rescheduled world premiere at the newly configured, socially distanced Pleasance Theatre from 2-7 February 2021 (press night is 3 February). Award-winning Charles Court Opera (“The masters of G&S in small spaces”) take on the challenge of performing the complete works of Gilbert and Sullivan […]
Midlife Cowboy – Pleasance Theatre
Midlife Cowboy continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 6 October 2019. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩✩ There is a point in Midlife Cowboy where Stuart, the titular lead and longtime head of the Swindon Country and Western Club, wonders if he hasn’t been a little selfish in his approach to the play he’s […]
World premiere for new British musical Midlife Cowboy
Comedian and best-selling author Tony Hawks will debut his new full-length musical, Midlife Cowboy at London’s Pleasance Theatre in September. Writer/director Hawks will also take to the stage as mid-life crisis suffering Stuart, alongside former Coronation Street favourite and gifted impressionist Debra Stephenson (Son of a Preacher Man, UK tour) as his country music-loving wife, […]
How to Catch a Krampus! – Pleasance Theatre
How to Catch a Krampus! continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 23 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A bit like pulling a Christmas cracker and finding an Easter egg inside, this Sink The Pink/Pleasance production is so not what you expect. The schlock Gothic horror publicity more than hints, […]
Assassins – Pleasance Theatre
Assassins continues at the Pleasance Theatre until 8 April 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Assassins is a show that I’ve seen countless times, but only really fully enjoyed on a handful of occasions. It’s a tricky show for newcomers to the material, set as it is in a limbo-like carnival […]
The Lost Boy Peter Pan – Pleasance Theatre
The Lost Boy Peter Pan continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 7 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The magic of the original Peter Pan unfailingly opens up the inner child in all grown-ups and the cast of this Action to the Word production does just that. J.M. Barrie’s […]
Get On With It – Pleasance Theatre
Get On With It was performed at the Pleasance Theatre, London. A truly important piece of theatre hit the Pleasance in Islington in the form of this unique new musical, Get On With It. Based on an autobiographical essay written by Amy Golden, it tells the tale of a young woman growing up with Cerebral […]
Red Riding Hood – Pleasance Theatre
Red Riding Hood continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 3 January 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This upbeat, slightly off-beat take on the Red Riding Hood story is wholesome and fresh theatre for over-3s. I saw it with three primary school groups aged five to about nine and there was a high level of engagement and spontaneous response. […]
Nutcracker! The Musical – Pleasance Theatre
Nutcracker! The Musical continues at the Pleasance Theatre, London until 3 January 2016. Star rating: one star ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ Imagine Tchaikovsky arranged by Sullivan with libretto by Gilbert when they were both having an uncharacteristically bad day. Add a director, Ollie Fielding, who can’t apprarently make up his mind what sort of show he wants it […]
World premiere of Nutcracker! The Musical – first video of new song released
A first video/song has been released from the upcoming world premiere of Nutcracker! The Musical, which takes the classic ETA Hoffmann tale and Tchaikovsky’s soaring classical music – familiar to fans of The Nutcraker ballet – and gives them a modern twist with enchanting new musical theatre arrangements. In the video Sugar Plum Fairy Leigh Rhianon Coggins (with Robert Hazle on keys) […]
Competition – Win a family ticket to Red Riding Hood at the Pleasance Theatre
Red Riding Hood at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington (Monday 7 December to Sunday 3 January) “Little Red is clever, Little Red is bright Little Red will find a way to beat you in a fight.” Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ at Leicester Curve) bring a new musical twist […]
New musical version of Red Riding Hood plays the Pleasance in December
A new musical version of the classic fairytale Red Riding Hood will play the Christmas season at Pleasance Theatre, Islington this December. Red Riding Hood is the latest work from Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary, the writing team behind the stage musical adaptation of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ which […]
Nutcracker! The Musical at the Pleasance Theatre – casting revealed
Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Nutcracker! The Musical, which takes the classic ETA Hoffmann tale and Tchaikovsky’s soaring classical music – familiar to fans of The Nutcraker ballet – and gives them a modern twist with enchanting new musical theatre arrangements. Nutcracker! The Musical, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, book and lyrics by multiple […]
