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Fatal Attraction – Theatre Royal Haymarket
★★★★ Fatal Attraction is one of those films that gets right under your skin – its dirty, uncomfortable and corrosive. The fear with the stage play was that it wouldn’t be able to replicate this, that...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Savoy Theatre
★★★ Never having seen the iconic film of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I took my seat with that brilliant feeling of complete ignorance and a recently purchased punnet of sweets. The play follows the story...
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Good People – Noel Coward Theatre
★★★ Despite being the shortest player on the stage Imelda Stauton sure packs a mighty punch per inch guaranteeing us a top notch performance for our buck the moment she steps onto Hildegard Bechtler’s...
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Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
★★★★★ Forgive me, for I momentarily may wax lyrical. Miss Saigon is astonishing. At least ten years ago I sat in the stalls at the Manchester Opera house to witness this story, but it never hit home...
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The Pajama Game – Shaftesbury Theatre
★★★ The Pajama Game is alright, but it could have been really good and that’s a shame. I loved the mundanity of the setting, the fact that it was about simple people, about striking and about making...
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Handbagged – Vaudeville Theatre
★★★★ An histocumentary, with comedy at its heart. Handbagged tells the story of two remarkable (in the literal sense) women, born in the same year, who went on to change the shape of Britain and in...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Theatre Royal Drury Lane
★★★ Sets. They are a bugger. I once knew a set designer who said “If the audience are looking at the set, then the director is doing something wrong”, and it’s been a motto that I stand by to this...
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Savoy Theatre
★★★★ Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Musical, book by Jeffery Lane and composed by David Yazbek, is an all singing, all dancing, all joking extravaganza featuring a stellar cast of television and West-end...
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Jeeves and Wooster – Duke of York’s
★★★★ Not to sound like one of those pretentious theatre types – tonight’s audience really were the most annoying crowd I’ve ever had the pleasure of being a part of. I’m afraid that the phone beam from...
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Shakespeare In Love – Noël Coward Theatre
★★★★ When I heard that Shakespeare in Love was being adapted for the stage I wondered how a film so popular would work away from the silver screen. Could a play compete with the flexibility of film?...
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Miss Saigon – Prince Edward Theatre
★★★★ Originally opening in 1989 and running for an impressive 10 years on the West End, Miss Saigon remains the hugely successful blockbuster musical, with Laurence Connor’s boldly cinematic production...
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1984 – Playhouse Theatre
Following their acclaimed run at The Playhouse in 2014, Headlong Productions are back in 2015 with their titillating spin on Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece. This production’s fresh take on the novel...
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The Mentalists – Wyndham Theatre
★★★ It’s not often you get to see Stephen Merchant hiding out from the police in a Finsbury Park hotel room in his pants. On stage, in front of a full house, for his West End stage debut no less. But...
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American Idiot – The Arts Theatre
★★★★ Exuberant might seem an odd word to describe a show set in a post 9/11 world and based on the disillusioned, punk rock sound of Green Day’s American Idiot, but exuberant it was.The sheer energy of...
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