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Category: Review

  • Stranger Things

    Phoenix Theatre

    Immensely entertaining and and great example of how to bring a TV| show to stage

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    I saw for the first time having never seen Stranger things and loved it – I thought it was so immensely entertaining.  I liked it so much I went a second time with my sister. My one criticism is it feels it could be trimmed a couple of points however,  this is because it does some work to fill out some lore for the stranger things world – and even there it didn’t make the thing feel off pace.  I’d love to go again. I may give it my vote for the most entertaining show in the West End at the moment.

  • Oliver

    Gielgud Theatre

    As good as you’d want from Oliver – excellent creative choices to put together something truly outstanding

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    The current version is (I think) as good as you’d want from Oliver (it will be hard to top) – at every point I think they made excellent creative choices to put together something truly outstanding. It is funny, entertaining, technically first class and doesn’t hold back from the darker side of the story. With or without children in tow It is one of my current top recommendations.

  • Hades Town

    Excellent all-round show, great story telling and worth repeated visits

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    Sung through musical loosely based on Orpheus and Euridice – I have seen 3 times and going again with my 11 year old. 1940s jazz(ish) inspired style – very well done.  Superb story telling.  I am very keen to see the current cast – some excellent talent.

  • Inter Alia

    So well done throughout – definitely one of the best I saw last year.

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    From the writer of Prima Facie – Rosamund Pike leads. So well done throughout – the directing, stage design, lighting, and acting all really good. Definitely one of the best I saw last year, and definitely deserving of a West End run.

  • Into the Woods

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    11 well-deserved Olivier Nominations – worth it just for the on-stage talent. Sondheim’s most commercial musical – at the Bridge

  • Cabaret

    KitKat Club at the Playhouse Theatre

    Dark and challenging – draws you in and makes you complicit in the world it creates – great singing, acting, directing and the rest.

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    I really love this version of Cabaret – It is dark and challenging – it draws you in and makes you complicit in the world it creates – great singing, acting, directing and the rest. As it is a rotating list of stars cast as lead (EmCee and Sally Bowles) the feel of the overall experience does depend somewhat on who is in the lead, but overall it is a top show.