Reading Time: 2 minutesSome incredible performances but the band steals the show Songs for a New World is our generation’s favourite song cycle. Packed full to the brim with the undeniable Jason Robert Brown Classics. The show celebrates individual experiences…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIndescribably good. I genuinely cannot remember ever seeing a more electric or soulful performance. Ever. I see a lot of really varied theatre because I love seeing different new creative ways of telling stories. I was grateful…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOvertures Piano Bar is the perfect stagey night out! On a drizzly December evening, nestled in the upstairs of a bar in Soho, you’ll find the pinnacle of theatre nerd heaven. Overtures is London’s answer to Marie’s…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA cute reimagining of your favourite Christmas stories I love The Cockpit – it’s such an under-utilised space, and it’s a space where lots of stories and companies start their journeys and that importance cannot be understated.…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn underground club in Soho seems the perfect setting for the launch of Hadestown. The 8 time Tony Award winning production is heading to the West End from February 2024 and I for one can’t wait. Hadestown…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCharming, cheeky and quick witted – a delight of an evening I’ll be honest – I was desperate to see this. I actually met Abishek and Nirmal during the Fringe, but couldn’t make it to their…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA nuanced look at right and wrong The Standard Short Long Drop by Rachel Garnet is a one act exploration of what it means to be human. Playing with the game theory of the worth of a…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrom the team that brought us Werewolf: Live. I was thrilled to see another 'social board game' live show. The concept: five of your favourite comedians playing the game observed. Boring you think? You'd be wrong. Blood on the Clocktower is a game of murder and mystery, lies and logic, deduction and deception.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSam Lupton is all of us. Looking for a ways to deal with a break up of a relationship, through escape, feelings, blocking, dating and clearing out. Only Sam decided to write his story into an Edinburgh fringe show.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInspired by an incredible true story dubbed ‘Dumb and Dumber Bandits’, this madcap caper is the perfect fringe evening. We meet Brad and Chad on their gap year when they decide to rob a bank on a whim. We then follow their journey from their escape, capture and sentencing to their release. With verbatim dialogue we also touch on the victims' experience of the process and recovery, giving the piece dramatic weight alongside the sheer stupidity.