Ambassadors Theatre London Reviews & News

When an ordinary person meets someone famous, that meeting is probably soon forgotten by the celebrity whilst for the ordinary person they’ve met, it’s an anecdote they will tell for the rest of their lives even if the meeting is a fleeting one. That’s the basic premise for Songs For Nobodies, a one-woman show that opened in Melbourne in 2009, got its European premiere at Wilton’s Music Hall last year and has now made the transfer to the West End at the Ambassadors. The one woman is … [Read more...]

There’s that iconic 90’s song by Crowded House - you remember it? - Always Take The Weather With You: whereas the song was not necessarily based on the central character of Pressure there is no doubt that Dr James Stagg was exactly that guy - someone who always took the weather with him. Even as a child he was wondering where the rain came from and by the time he arrived at the momentous events of June 1944 weather was his all-consuming passion, he was the world’s leading climatological expert … [Read more...]

After an amusing “please turn off your phone” message that set the scene, the Mindgame (or should that be Anthony Horowitz’s Mindgame?) curtain rose on an old-fashioned doctor’s office in Fairfields Hospital in Suffolk with the sound of bells and loud ticking clocks followed by a chilling scream. Amongst the props on the set, is a desk, some chairs, an odd photo on the wall of someone who could be a doctor or a professor and a view out of the window of a large, beautifully landscaped garden. … [Read more...]

If you are searching for an absolute definition of ‘awkward’, and I fully accept that you may not be, then look no further than the original National Theatre production Beginning, newly transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre. David Eldridge’s play navigates us through early hours post-party small talk between willing lady - sorry, woman - and reluctant male divorcee; it steers us through hilarious unfunny jokes and embarrassing silences; it guides us through dad dancing and drunk exhibitionism … [Read more...]