One of the major buildings surrounding Covent Garden is the London Transport Museum, beloved by locals and international tourists alike, especially as kids go for free and most entry tickets are annual passes automatically. The colloquially called TfL Museum is also a popular event space for corporate fairs but that it has its own theatre … Continue reading The Truth About Harry Beck at the London Transport Museum
Nine years ago The Silence of Snow: The life of Patrick Hamilton had its premiere at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe Festival, performed by its author Mark Farrelly. Since then numerous stagings followed in various places, and tonight is the 100st performance (congratulations!) at Brockley's Jack Studio Theatre, one of London's finest pub theatres and worth travelling … Continue reading The Silence of Snow: the Life of Patrick Hamilton written and performed by Mark Farrelly
A trip to London's first address for puppetry has long been overdue, and my first visit to The Little Angel Theatre actually leads me a few steps down the road to its satellite, the Little Angel Studios, proudly hosting the last show of this summer's Children's Puppet Festival. Offie winner Kinder by Smoking Apples, a company focussing on puppetry and visual theatre, plays here … Continue reading Being kinder: Kinder at The Little Angel Studios
The piano overture of this little masterpiece of musical theatre already brings some reminiscence of Anatevka – it was Marc Chagall who made the fiddler on the roof a cultural icon in his paintings, reminiscing about the place he grew up in, in what is now Belarus. There is also a cello on stage (played … Continue reading Live and online from Bristol: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
Other than the façade suggests The Playground Theatre is unexpectedly spacious inside, with free seat choice around a stage carpeted in Schauss pink, a matt magenta – the program shares so many secrets about the manipulating powers of this colour that coming here was worth just for learning about this. The brochure also confirms that … Continue reading Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton at the Playground Theatre in West London
The London suburb of Bromley is technically already in Kent but better connected than some other boroughs of the capital. The Churchill Theatre is in the middle of its high street in a concrete building, currently half wrapped in scaffolding but the warm staff makes up for it. And after all it is a very … Continue reading Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley
It is the week in which every theatre newsletter contains the message that the facilities have air conditioning. Even without London’s heatwave continuing we are taken back to Florida, Key West in this new musical. Having been lucky enough to have visited Key West if only for a day, it is the US’ most southern point, Mile 0. It was a day filled with snorkelling, lime key … Continue reading It happened in Key West at The Charing Cross Theatre, London
Sadie takes the Stage 