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At Birth – Theatre Review
ALTHOUGH At Birth doesn’t reveal its true heart for a while, this play is as tender as a balmy summer’s night in West London. Thought-provoking, deep and superbly acted, it deserves more than a five-night run at the perfectly formed Barons Court Theatre on the outskirts of Kensington. Ten would be better. Yes, it’s that…
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Elkie Brooks At The Churchill Theatre – Live Music Review
LIVE music seldom fails to entertain. For that reason alone, it should be cherished, supported and encouraged. Go along to a show and get your feet tapping. It will transform your life. On Monday night (March 20), when the rain clattered down from grey skies and dry warm homes beckoned, Elkie Brooks proved this very…
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Next Generation Burlesque At Phoenix Arts Club – Review
IT’S easy to miss – buried behind the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End – but the Phoenix Arts Club is well worth a visit, especially if you like your night-time entertainment a little unconventional. Or even better, a little bit naughty. Now celebrating its 35th year and having undergone a makeover, the club is…
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Close-Up: An Interview With Comedian Alex Edelman
American comedian and writer-performer Alex Edelman is bringing his award-winning show, Just For Us, to the Menier Chocolate Factory. Alex joins us on Close-Up Culture to chat about the show, his creative process, what shapes his comedy, and much more. Just For Us begins previews on 11 January, ahead of an opening night on 18 January and performances…
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Jo Harrop At The Boulevard – Live Music Review
WHAT a super music venue The Boulevard is, situated in the beating heart of London’s Soho. Full of glass and towering stairs, it is becoming a come-to place for lovers of jazz. Moody. Groovy. The fact that it is housed in an old Paul Raymond strip joint adds to the ambience. The sleaze has of course…
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The Wedding Speech – Theatre Review
PRINCESS Donnough delivers a simply sensational performance in The Wedding Speech at the Hope Theatre in London’s Islington. For seventy minutes, she magnificently holds the stage as she reveals the fraught relationship between her character Rosemary and Rosemary’s mother. Her performance is energetic, immersive, spellbinding and intimate – and she draws you into Rosemary’s world…
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Ladies Down Under – Theatre Review
LADIES Down Under, the second play in Amanda Whittington’s Ladies Trilogy, is the latest offering from the Woodley Theatre in Reading. Fun it is too as the four fish-filleters from Hull all confront personal issues on a trip to Australia. There’s plenty of music (Waltzing Matilda), singing, colour and humour to make the night a…
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The Critic – Theatre Review
WHAT a treat it is to visit The Calder Bookshop & Theatre in London’s Waterloo – right next door to the magnificent Spanish tapas bar Meson Don Felipe (its sardines and Patatas Bravas are to die for). It’s a throwback in time. Almost Dickensian. Arrive early for the night’s performance and you will be drawn…
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Avocado Presents: Improv – Theatre Review
NO one knows quite what to expect when they turn up to the weekly performance of Avocado Presents: Improv at the intimate Barons Court Theatre in London. Nor for that matter do performers Hamza Mohsin and Jake Migicovsky who have little idea as to where their 60-minute show is going to take them. Welcome to…
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Not Now – Theatre Review
NOT now? No, now. This marvellous vignette of a play from the masterful David Ireland is 50 minutes of sheer delight. Angel delight, theatrical delight. See it before its run ends at the Finborough Theatre (Chelsea, London) on November 26 – you will not be disappointed. Ireland, writer of Cypress Avenue and whose play Yes…
