London Theatre Reviews

You’d have to have been living under a rock to not know of Carole King; and even if you don’t know her by name, you would surely know many of her songs if you heard them. So it’s hardly surprising that in 2014 she found herself the subject of a Broadway musical that subsequently transferred to the … [Read more...]

As one would reasonably expect from a well-constructed one-person performance, miscellaneous characters are portrayed in a manner that demonstrates the actor’s versatility. What sets The Chess Player apart is the ability to look at the storyline from more than one perspective. True, Richard McElvain … [Read more...]

For the uninitiated, like me, Katie Piper is kind enough to provide a brief overview of the circumstances that led her to become an author and broadcaster. Acid attacks are, unpalatably, topical at the time of writing – a fortnight before this performance of Piper’s one-woman show, What’s In My … [Read more...]

The Cat’s Back is a typical pub theatre. A small raised platform serves as a stage and chairs are squashed together to form a make-shift audience. A Glass Half Full Theatre comes bounding onto the stage and immediately welcomes us in, full of energy and fun, proving that you can make and create art … [Read more...]

Giving Viennese classic La Ronde a re-boot, F*cking Men brings risqué theatre to the fringe stage. Taking a snapshot of the lives of various gay men on their quest to find happiness (or just sexual fulfillment), this production was originally hosted at the King’s Head Theatre in 2015 before seeing … [Read more...]

I don’t know very many songs about spring. There’s ‘Beautiful Day’ by U2 (though I take the point that beautiful days occur in other seasons too) and ‘Lifted’ by the Lighthouse Family (not an actual family). Then there’s the hymn ‘Morning Has Broken’, although by the time my generation started … [Read more...]

Katy Brand’s first foray into scriptwriting gives us 3Women, a well-written, funny and emotional delight. Across three generations, three women come together on the eve of Suzanne’s (Debbie Chazen) wedding. Suzanne’s mother Eleanor (Anita Dobson) and daughter Laurie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) join … [Read more...]