Lady Chatterley’s Lover

This GBM Productions musical version of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover originally had a limited run at the Shaftesbury Theatre, but has now been given a digital revival by Stream.Theatre. The show features music from John Robinson and book by Phil Willmott, and was directed by Sasha Regan. It seems to be the year of […]

Hamilton and Me: An Actor’s Journal

Three years on from his award-winning stint as part of the original West End cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Giles Terera has released his account of his time in the show. Hamilton and Me is made up of a collection of journal entries that Terera kept as he prepared to reveal his Aaron Burr to […]

Olivier Awards 2020

Whilst I have enjoyed my break from almost full-time theatregoing over the past few months, one of the cancelled events I was really gutted to miss out on was the Olivier Awards. You may remember that I was part of the dynamic duo covering the 2019 ceremony for BWW (and had previously gone solo for […]

2020 mid-year update

Against my usual penchant for starting off slowly and then steadily heading for entropy, I went straight in at the deep end this year: my first week back in London (& the first full week of the year) was set down as #MindTheMusicals 2020! That means, of course, I began my theatregoing year by […]

Hurry up and wait…

One month ago today I was sat in a theatre for what I fully expected to be the last time for quite a while. SOLT had closed all of its theatres even as audiences were beginning to arrive; the United Kingdom government, when it eventually acknowledged we needed daily briefings, began doing them at any […]

The Time Machine

Understandably, I find myself running a little behind on my reviews – this one, however, will probably be one of the more surreal things to have to write up. Press night was Wednesday 11 March 2020 (again, sorry): the day the World Health Organisation conferred pandemic status on the current COVID-19 outbreak. Why is that […]

Message In A Bottle

“More loneliness than any man could bear, rescue me before I fall into despair…” There are certain bands and artists that it’s almost cool to dislike or ridicule; Coldplay is probably the best modern example, but often it ends up being a selection of groups or singers from a previous generation – your mum still […]

Day 6: Missed The Boat: Billy Elliot

I’m not sure why I didn’t see this one. Towards the end of its West End life I had the incentive of a Sunny alumnus being in the cast, so I should really have made it there then – the problem was that Victoria always felt very out of the way at that point, plus […]

Day 4: Missed The Boat: Stephen Ward

I very nearly did see this one, but it opened and closed so swiftly that I didn’t really have the chance – I wasn’t living in London at that point, so a bit more planning was required for my theatre trips. I must admit that I was also a little put off by a snippet of […]

Day 3: “All the men and women merely players”

Over the past few years, audience behaviour has probably been the biggest gripe to regular theatregoers (I refuse to continue to use the elitist label ‘theatre etiquette’), but a new contender stealthily emerged during 2019: stunt casting. It’s not like it’s a new thing at all; most big tours will employ a ‘face’ as a […]