17+ hour, 44+ min ago   (370+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/ WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, Yard Theatre The brand spanking new Yard Theatre has recently reopened its doors with a thrilling season kick, started by the London premiere of…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (553+ words) The music doesn't stop there. Songs keep popping up at exactly the right moment, sometimes with a lyric that suddenly fits what's happening – Britney Spears singing "I must confess" being one particularly well-timed example. At first, it's another part of…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (594+ words) West End Best Friend Review: EAST IS EAST, Octagon Theatre As a celebration of the original production’s 30th anniversary, a new production of East is East comes to Bolton as a collaboration between the Octagon Theatre, Citizens Theatre and Wiltshire Creative,…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (578+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: JANE EYRE - A MUSICAL, Southwark Playhouse Written almost 200 years ago, Jane Eyre is one of the best known and loved romance novels in the English language. Therefore, there is a lot to live up to for…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (381+ words) Fresh from an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comedy troupe Crybabies have brought their all-new horror spoof The Scaring to London’s Soho Theatre. It is no easy feat to replicate the success of a fringe production but this…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (155+ words) Performed as a half-staged reading, it can't settle on whether it wants to be page or stage: the passages of dialogue between Zimmerman and his friend, played on this day by Lucy Speed, cry out to be lifted off the…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (188+ words) Created by mother-and-daughter team Alexandra Vickers, founder of Musical Theatre Pins and co-founder of Musical Theatre Market, and Doré Vickers, co-founder of Musical Theatre Market, Oh So Stagey Fan Fest is a brand-new, fan-first celebration of musical theatre, stage culture,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (266+ words) Benjamin O’Mahony as Shostakovich gives the appropriate level of ego while still allowing us to sympathise with his plight. His performance keeps the composer from becoming simply a historical figure. Nina, his wife, played by Jenna Augen, his biggest supporter…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (770+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Theatre Royal Bath It is extraordinary to realise that Noel Coward’s Present Laughter was first staged in the West End during World War II in 1942 and has been acclaimed as one of his finest…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (207+ words) Ah Frankenstein - Mary Shelley's classic literary masterpiece has been adapted many a time in TV, film, theatre and everything in between. However, at Greenwich Theatre, something slightly more peculiar is occurring. A musical adaptation, and not just any musical adaptation,…...