The unfortunate reality of Hamilton (Lewis) is that you smile far more looking at the poster than you do sitting through the show. Both the writing and staging just lack the dynamism necessary for it …
Hamilton meets Spice Girls meets Madame Jojo's - in Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow's electric gig-theatre piece about refusing to be reduced, or erased, to a mnemonic. Six starts with an unequivocal insight: that, institutionally no less, …
A warm and precise supporting performance from Seann Miley-Moore isn't enough to save GUY: A New Musical from a slight, banal narrative and a string of stock characters. The amount of work that's gone into the …
Tom Latter's production plays into the antiquated nature of Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice rather than acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving us with a more obselete retelling than I believe is necessary or …
The greatest strength of the British Theatre Academy's Spring Awakening the Musical is, patently, its young cast. Though 'less' may have been 'more' with regards to direction and choreography, the formidable 21-strong company bring an infectious …
The Simon & Garfunkel Story is pitched just right - interweaving music, storytelling and archived footage of the duo to form a warming tribute to the era. With the ever increasing popularity of shows dedicated to …
Despite strong casting and an effective production design, I found it impossible to overlook It Happened in Key West's unashamed romanticisation of the obsessive and necrophilic tendencies of a real man who died just 66 years …
I'd envisaged a lavish production littered with theatrical 'in-jokes' with Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter’s 1948 musical depicting the on and offstage antics of a production of The Taming of the Shrew. But whilst there's certainly …
Whilst Strictly Ballroom the Musical harnesses much of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagance, the magic is dispelled by the erratic pace of its storytelling. When adapting a film for the stage, comparisons from the source material are inevitable …
Lyrical, melodic and beautifully soundtracked, Out of The Forest's Bury the Hatchet was a joy to behold. As a general rule, metatheatre makes me squirm. I find it self-conscious, cloying, and quite often very annoying. So …
It's about as twee and anodyne as shows come - but A Spoonful of Sherman is well-produced, energetically performed and entirely successful at bringing its (elderly) target audience to their feet. If the Oliviers ever introduce …
Love Happens Here: an LGBTQI Cabaret showcases some genuinely great voices, but suffers from a lack of the nudge-nudge-wink-wink delivery characteristic of both the cabaret genre and the most successful am-dram offerings. On the face of it, …