REVIEW: The Harder They Come
Reading Time: 2 minutesStratford East’s production of The Harder They Come bursts with energy, color, and rhythm, bringing the streets of 1970s Kingston vividly to life.
Maria Martins
FEATURE: Fucking White Boys
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe National Youth Theatre’s StoryFest is a new writing festival sponsored by STUDIOCANAL and Urban Myth Films. Returning this July, StoryFest 2025 features 10 bold new plays from breakout voices and 100+ young creatives.
REVIEW: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Alien
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Gwilliam's creative direction thrusts this show into a vibrant kaleidoscope of Bowie’s defiant legacy, unraveling a visual feast that catapults us through his electrifying songs, tumultuous life, groundbreaking sound, outrageous costumes, and a fearless refusal to be bound by any genre or form.
REVIEW: Die Zauberflöte
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Royal Academy Opera's Die Zauberflöte, directed by Jamie Manton, assembles an audacious blend of gifted musicians and performers, all set against a backdrop of mesmerising, ethereal lights that seem to defy gravity, navigating us through the unfolding drama.
REVIEW: Cry-Baby, The Musical
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in Baltimore, USA, 1950s, the show takes on forbidden love and teenage rebellion, satirising the rigid social norms and moral panic of the era.
FEATURE: Disney’s The Lion King celebrates 25 years on West End
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisney’s THE LION KING celebrated 25 triumphant years in the West End’s Lyceum Theatre on 20th October with a special gala performance attended by the original creatives of the show including Julie Taymor, Lebo M, Richard Hudson, Irene Mecchi, Roger Allers and Donald Holder.
REVIEW: Bitter Lemons
Reading Time: 2 minutesBitter Lemons, a two-hander by writer Lucy Hayes, follows the contrasting though skilfully interlinked stories of two young women, both newly promoted, fizzing with nerves in anticipation of the biggest professional challenges of their careers to date. The first, a professional goalkeeper (Chanel Waddock) dealing with the grief of losing her father, and the second, an ambitious banker (Shannon Hayes) navigating tokenism in the professional world. By the end of the first act the sales pitch and football pitch collide as their lives meet in parallel.