I was kindly invited to review Sessions for the Evening Standard. You can read the review by clicking the link below. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/sessions-review-soho-theatre-london-b965822.html Photo Credit: The Other Richard https://sohotheatre.com/
I was kindly invited to review NW Trilogy for londontheatre.co.uk. You can read the review by clicking the link below. https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/nw-trilogy-review-kiln-theatre Photo Credit: Marc Brenner
I was kindly invited to review Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia for londontheatre.co.uk. You can read the review by clicking the link below. https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/reviews/review-once-upon-a-time-in-nazi-occupied-tunisia-the-almeida Photo Credit: Marc Brenner
I was kindly invited to review Jersey Boys for the Evening Standard. You can read the review by clicking the link below. https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/jersey-boys-london-musical-theatre-west-end-b951150.html Photo Credit: PR handout Jersey Boys is running at the Trafalgar Theatre until 2 January 2022 at the time of writing.
I was kindly invited to write a one-off review for the Evening Standard after their main critic was unfortunately pinged and had to self-isolate. You can read the review by clicking the link below. A big thanks to Nancy Durrant for the opportunity! https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/theatre/hymn-review-almeida-theatre-london-adrian-lester-danny-sapani-b948402.html Photo Credit: Marc Brenner Hymn is running at the Almeida Theatre [...]
Oh, the places I’ve travelled to after entering the Charing Cross Theatre: 1950s Paris with the musical Amour; New York during the turn of the twentieth century with the musical Ragtime; and closer to home, London’s West End on Old Compton Street with the musical Soho Cinders.Now with the venue’s latest revival production of Pippin, [...]
In Be More Chill, this quirky sci-fi fantasy musical takes the premise that a supercomputer has the functionality to make a high-schooler popular and runs, no, sprints with it. The result is an adrenaline fuelled and ultimately uplifting production which seeks to connect with misfits everywhere and remind them that they are not alone in [...]
*This review is based on a preview performance of Cinderella. In one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s recent press statements, he described this production of Cinderella as ‘the first world premiere of a new musical in this country since the pandemic’. However, others online correctly noticed that there have indeed been other original musicals mounted on [...]
In J’Ouvert, London’s Notting Hill Carnival has been brought to life on the West End stage with an impressive cast of four women. Yasmin Joseph’s show meaningfully captures the reality of the carnival experience in twenty-first century London whilst remaining undeniably fun. Under the direction of Rebekah Murrell, it bursts with colour, music and joy; [...]
No, the show’s provocative title is not clickbait. When Cleo (Leanne Henlon), a dark-skinned Black woman, learns that Kylie Jenner has been announced as a ‘self-made billionaire’, she is outraged. To express this anger, Cleo describes in darkly comic detail via an anonymous Twitter account the various ways in which she’d like to kill the [...]
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