Review: CIRQUE: THE GREATEST SHOW, Leicester Curve
by Franco Milazzo - June 11, 2024
With its live singers, superb clowning and disappointing vaudeville acts, The Entertainers’ Cirque: The Greatest Show is bringing its dazzling show around the country....
Review: MOFFIE, Riverside Studios
by Alice Cope - June 10, 2024
The powerful story of a tender and gentle human forced into a brutal environment filled with hate and toxic masculinity....
Review: MY FAIR LADY, Leeds Playhouse
by Gary Naylor - June 08, 2024
Two terrific leads will delight audiences, but the source material's misogyny proves too much to simply sweep aside...
Review: MARIE CURIE, Charing Cross Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - June 08, 2024
She was exceptional, but the musical written about her is anything but. It tends to be old-fashioned and traditional in structure, willing itself to be a majestic epic, but never reaching that stage. Her life story feels rushed and vague, the songs are run-of-the-mill, standardised, lacking that big...
Review: CLOSER TO HEAVEN, Turbine Theatre
by Mica Blackwell - June 10, 2024
The talented cast and creatives can only do so much to elevate the musical’s inherent camp, but Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys' script and songs feel underbaked with characters who aren’t able to be fleshed out. With this in mind, it feels closer to hell....
Review: IVO GRAHAM: CAROUSEL, Park Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024
Ivo Graham: Carousel is a step in a new direction for Graham, who is most well-known for his standup comedy, having been performing since the young age of eighteen. In this show, he “invites you onto his own carousel,” bringing you into his world through an hour of remembrance....
Review: DIVA: LIVE FROM HELL, King's Head Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - June 10, 2024
DIVA: Live From Hell has arrived at the King’s Head Theatre. With a book and characters by Nora Brigid Monahan and music/ lyrics by Alexander Sage Oyen, the one-man musical brings us into the eternal punishment of Desmond Channing, a high schooler from Florida who is forced to reenact the final few ...