The festive season is finally upon us, the change in season heralded by smell of mince pies, the taste mulled wine, and the sound of pantomime emanating from almost every theatre. But this year, instead of spending December taking my normal dive headfirst into a...
Audiences have just one month left to see the Royal Opera House’s production of The Wind in the Willows in London’s West End. Directed and choreographed by Will Tuckett and starring Alan Titchmarsh who has been lauded for his role as the story’s narrator, the...
Engaging, moving and at times, harrowing, Tea Set is a one-handed play that demonstrates perfectly that extensive visual stimuli aren’t required for a performance to pack a punch. Delivered by Amy Molloy, Gina Moxley’s play takes us back to “the millennium,” to that one tick...
For a moment, suspend everything you know about Japan. Imagine a far off and mysterious country where it’s a criminal offense – punishable by death – to flirt. Insert an authoritarian leader called the Mikado, overlay a 19th century English social hierarchy and now call...
"It's a family show," is usually marketing code for "designed for kids. Grown ups should bring a good book, and anyone coming without a child will be regarded with the suspicion of one peering in a classroom window." As far as shows with the “family”...
There’s a widely-held view that panto is the lowest form of theatre, and it comes with the temptation to expect poor-to-serviceable singing, mediocre acting and jokes that are more “ho ho ho” than “ha ha ha.” But Billy the Kid: A Panto Western, the Charles...
Director - Tom Attenborough Writer/Performer - John Woodburn Writer/Performer - James Dunnell-Smith Writer/Performer - Joshua George Smith Musician/Composer - Mark Newnham Movement Director - Polly Bennett Production Manager - Heather Doole Set Designer - Simon Wells Producer - Alice Carter Theatre503 have announced their first ever family festive show, brought to us by award-winning...
Mosey on down to Rosemary Branch Theatre - the gold old Rosey B Ranch - where the scene is set for Charles Court Opera’s eighth annual panto. This year, it’s rip snortin’, whip crackin’ Billy The Kid - A Panto Western, running from Friday 28...
'That incident left me cored. No other word describes it. Whatever was left of my essence, gist, kernel, life force, self was gouged out by that boy.' Playwright - Gina Moxley Producers - Kibo Productions and Amy Molloy Director - Sharon Willems Original Music - Mari Sainio Costume Design -...
Martin Witts & Lesley Ackland for Leicester Square Theatre present Sleeping Booty! Writer & Director Stuart Saint Assistant Director & Choreographer Dalh Haynes Musical Direction Nick Barstow The creators of the critically acclaimed DICK!, the West End’s longest running camp, cult romp, have been at it again and are...