London Theatre Reviews - West End & Off West End

There’s a certain level of frustration that many people have felt in lockdown, and if it’s escapism you’re after in an online theatre production, it’s to be found elsewhere. Love Screens is almost brutally honest in its portrayals of human interaction. It does so partly by using a common (or, if you please, repetitive) technique: […]

Christmas comes earlier every year. It feels that no sooner do the Easter Eggs finish than the ‘back to school’ stuff comes out, and then, at the start of September, supermarket shelves start to groan under the weight of heralds of mince pies, tinsel and all the traditional trappings of the festive season down the […]

It’s not often I learn something new (other than information about the recording in question, of course) just by reading the album’s notes. A ‘ger’ is what people in Mongolia call a ‘yurt’ – a portable tent structure. As details of various sizes, types and so on can be read about elsewhere online, I won’t […]

Sleepless in Seattle apparently had a budget of $21 million and box office takings of $227.9 million – the profit margin for Sleepless: A Musical Romance, its theatrical adaptation, is not going to be anywhere near that. Indeed, a note in the programme pulls no punches, making it plain that with social distancing in place, […]

London audiences have some familiarity with Broadway actress Sierra Boggess, having appeared at least twice at the Royal Albert Hall, for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Prom in 2010 and then the 25th-anniversary concerts of The Phantom of the Opera, as well as being in the original company of Love Never Dies at the Adelphi Theatre […]