The Statesman is an absurdist comedy by New York-based writer Joel Marlin opening this September at Theatro Technis in London. Directed by Quentin Beroud, The Statesman follows a village where laughter is outlawed and the reluctant official charged with teaching people how to be funny after a forbidden giggle draws the attention of the Queen. The […]
Review: This Bitter Earth directed by Billy Porter at Soho Theatre London
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A thrilling, intimate production instantly and winningly breaking the fourth wall, and then delivering a shattering, fragmentary, non-linear portrait of a passionate but troubled relationship of a gay, interracial couple, Neil and Jesse – against a US backdrop of race, inequality, and police brutality. The play, This Bitter Earth‘s timeline is marked by the deaths […]
Theatre Review: The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver at Drury Lane London
December 20, 2024 by
This ‘switch and bait’ production might make its money and that can’t be bad for theatre right? It’s getting bums on beautifully upholstered seats. You might enjoy this if you are a tourist – sort of we went to London and got this lousy T-shirt with Sigourney Weaver‘s face on it. More especially if you […]
Theatre Review: Why Am I So Single?
October 25, 2024 by
This from the creators of SIX, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s new fancy musical is loosely based on their own lives. ‘Oliver and Nancy’, not their real names, are played by Jo Foster and Leesa Tulley. There are plenty of other musical theatre jokes in there for a lively young audience who are whooping and […]
VOILA! THEATRE FESTIVAL 2024
October 24, 2024 by
After 10 years at The Cockpit, Voila! Theatre Festival relaunches in November 2024 as an umbrella festival with performances taking place in nine venues across London. Voila! is a place for artists to take risks, present a new piece of work, tour to a new audience, or translate a play into a new language. At […]
Theatre Review: Top 6 Broadway Shows – Fall 2024
October 2, 2024 by
OH, MARY! www.ohmaryplay.com Oh, Mary! Oh, yes! This show deserves the exclamation along with a chorus of madcap melodies for this cha-cha showgirl. This is drag farce played at top pelt, physical comedy, recurring gags and a twist in the tale of the banal life of the unhinged Mary Todd Lincoln and the looming assassination […]
Theatre Alert: Rula Lenska in Evelyn at Southwark Playhouse
March 27, 2022 by
In “Evelyn” Rula Lenska stars as unsuspecting landlady, Jeanne who takes pity on Sandra, a stranger who might not be who she says she is. Inspired by real life events, Evelyn is a story of mob-justice in modern day Britain that interrogates the question: when is justice really served? This unflinching piece of theatre takes a […]
Review: The Shark Is Broken West End Theatre London
January 17, 2022 by
This unsinkable play is a master class in writing and acting. The three lead actors shooting blockbuster “Jaws” in 1974 are stuck on a boat off Martha’s Vineyard while the unreliable mechanical shark is being repaired. They have time to kill on board the Orca and almost each other. Projected lapping waves, and clouds move […]
Live Theatre Review: Purity and laser-like focus for Pierrot Lunaire at Komische Oper
October 12, 2020 by
In these uncertain Corona times, you don’t have many opportunities to actually witness live theatre performances inside a venue. So I was very happy, writes Sabine ‘Bee’ Koch, to get a ticket for Pierrot Lunaire at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Categorized as three monodramas – two spoken word only, one with accompanying music – Not I […]
Review: Frankenstein NYT REP Season
December 2, 2019 by
At the Southwark Playhouse this fun production of the old story of Frankenstein has a modern twist by exploring the idea of artificial intelligence as the monster, who defies its creator. And to gender switch the scientists and the monster to women and adopt a totally female centric position might look like a gimmick and […]
