Barcelona
Rating: ★★★★★

Dear Evan Hansen
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Cast: Ryan Kopel, Lauren Conroy, Alice Fearn, Helen Anker, Richard Hurst, Killian Thomas Lefevre, Tom Dickerson, Vivian Panka and Sonny Monaghan

Meet Evan: an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more than to fit in. The thing is, on his way to fitting in, he didn’t tell the whole truth. And now must give up on a life he never dreamt he’d have. As events spiral and the truth comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everyone around him.

Dr. Strangelove
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Noël Coward Theatre, London
Cast: Steve Coogan, Giles Terera, John Hopkins, Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Penny Ashmore, Ben Deery, Richard Dempsey, Mabli Gwynne, Mark Hadfield, Tony Jayawardena, Tom Kelsey, Daniel Norford, Dharmesh Patel, Adam Sina, Alex Stoll and Ben Turner

Seven-time BAFTA Award winner Steve Coogan stars in the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. With a world-renowned creative team led by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction will leave a whole new generation of audiences laughing and afraid.

West End Musical Halloween
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Lyric Theatre, London
Cast: Shanay Holmes, Jon Robyns, Courtney Bowman, Nathania Ong, Erin Caldwell and Tobias Turley 

The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Cheeyang Ng. They are bringing their show, Fat, Femme & Asian to the incomparable Crazy Coqs on 5th November. The evening will consist of songs from their various musicals-in-development, with an all-star cast performing. You can book tickets here.

Get yourself comfy and join us for the next segment of Stagey Chat!

The Orchestral Forest
Rating: 4.5/5
Venue: Sinfonia Smith Square, London

The Orchestral Forest is yours to explore. Wander between the trees, open your ears and listen. Really listen.

As you experience an orchestra from within, free to move between the instruments, discover a story of beauty, patience, peril and hope. Take control of the mixing desk and choose how you want to encounter extraordinary nature-inspired music by Felix Mendelssohn, Dobrinka Tabakova, Nadia Boulanger, Michael Nyman and more.

The Chemistry Test
Rating: ★★
Venue: Stage Door Theatre, London
Cast: Jack Cray and Hannah Adams

In this ever increasing digital age, two Artificial Intelligences, Steve and Evie, have been tasked with showing humankind that it’s more important than ever to get out from behind the screen and form genuine human-to-human connections.

If they fail, mankind will become a soullessly transactional society. In their last stage of training before being dispatched to Earth, Steve and Evie must pass off as a convincing human couple; revealing just a hint of their true identities will bring the whole mission crashing down.

Playing With Fire Album Review
Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: October 25th 2024 (early link provided to review)
Cast: Cardamon Rozzi, JC Chasez and Lily Elise

Playing With Fire, the new musical from JC Chasez (Grammy-nominated member of *NSYNC) and Jimmy Harry (Golden Globe winner for Madonna‘s “Masterpiece”), draws inspiration from Mary Shelley’s timeless Frankenstein. Featuring 16 original tracks, the musical reimagines the classic tale through a conversation between Frankenstein and his creation, The Creature, at the grave of Frankenstein’s wife, Elizabeth ten years after her murder. Featuring performances by Chasez, Cardamon Rozzi, and Lily Elise, Playing With Fire is a profound exploration of love, redemption, and the human condition.

KIDULTS! The Musical
Venue: Bridewell Theatre, London
Cast: Mark Tunstall, Tiffany Lovegrove, Ben Hughes, Carlo Villa, Oral Norville, Izzy Rees, Annie Hayes, Hazel Park, Christopher McNamara, Eleise Bailey, Jack Chambers, Kelly Townsend, Alexandra Cook, James Freeman and Kirsty Nolan

Fly More Than You Fall
Rating: ★★★
Venue: Southwark Playhouse Elephant 
Cast: Keala Settle, Cavin Cornwall, Robyn Rose-Li, Maddison Bulleyment, Max Gill, Edward Chitticks, Bessy Ewa, Harry Mallaghan, Sara Bartos, Kieran Usher, Zasha Rabie and JoJo Meredith

Star of Broadway, West End and The Greatest Showman, Tony-nominated Keala Settle joins the cast of this sensational new musical. Based on lived experiences the uplifting and inspiring show navigates grief with some incredible songs that are bound to get stuck in your head! This isn’t just a musical, it’s a journey that will break your heart and mend it all in one night.

Jamie Allan's Amaze

Swan Lake in-the-round

Taskmaster: The Live Experience
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Dock X, London
Cast: Little Little Alex Horne 

Taskmaster: The Live Experience is a brand new interactive adventure, where you can compete to be crowned Taskmaster champion. Based on the multi-award-winning hit TV show, this is your chance to step inside the world of Taskmaster and take part in brand new ludicrous and infuriating tasks, just like your favourite comedians.

Battle for points to win the Taskmaster’s seal of approval and be crowned the winner.

Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Empress Museum, London 
Cast: Simon Bailey, Aaliya Mai, Jaz Ellington, Charlotte-Hannah Jones, Whitney Martins, Fallon Mondlane and Giovanna Spano 

‘COME ALIVE!’ is the brand new CIRCUS SPECTACULAR now playing in London’s Earls Court. Season extended due to popular demand - now booking to 30 March 2025

Inspired by the 20th Century Fox Motion Picture The Greatest Showman. Story by Jenny Bicks. Songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Mark Tunstall: writer, director and actor in heartwarming comedic show, KIDULTS! The Musical. KIDULTS! The Musical opens at the Bridewell Theatre in London from October 21st.

Get yourself comfy and join us for the next segment of Stagey Chat!

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Marylebone Theatre, London
Cast: Joshua Malina, Caroline Catz, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Simon Yadoo and Gabriel Howell

“Who in your life would you trust to keep you alive? And who do you know who would risk their own life  for yours?”

Based on the Pulitzer-finalist short story by Nathan Englander, don't miss this brand new serious-comedy starring West Wing and Big Bang Theory actor Joshua Malina, and directed by Leopoldstadt's Patrick Marber.

Q The Music: James Bond Concert Spectacular
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Indigo at the 02, London
Cast: David Zaritsky, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Kerry Schultz and Matt Walker

Hosted by The Bond Experience’s David Zaritsky, Q The Music’s “James Bond Concert Spectacular” returns to indigo at The O2 this October with special guests Maud Adams and Britt Ekland from The Man With The Golden Gun.

Q The Music are known as the world’s finest and most critically acclaimed tribute to the music of Bond. As the pioneering Bond concert, they have been known for more than 20 years for stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances, mixed with superb musicianship and flair. 

The Lehman Trilogy
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: Gillian Lynne Theatre, London
Cast: Leighton Pugh, Aaron Krohn and Howard W. Overshown, Valentine Hanson, Simon Victor, Ali Berry, Cat Beveridge and Anyssa Neumann 

On a cold September morning in 1844, a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers, and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish - Lehman Brothers - spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, triggering the largest financial crisis in history.

Come From Away
Rating: ★★★★★
Venue: New Wimbledon Theatre, London 
Cast: Natasha J Barnes, Daniel Crowder, Mark Dugdale, Rosie Glossop, Amanda Henderson, Kirsty Hoiles, Oliver Jacobson, Dale Mathurin, Nicholas Pound, Sara Poyzer, Jamal Zulfiqar and Bree Smith

Winner of four Olivier Awards including Best New Musical in London and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical on Broadway, this smash hit show shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11, and the small Newfoundland community that invited these ‘come from aways’ into their lives with open hearts.

101 Dalmatians 
Rating: ★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Cast: Kym Marsh, Charles Brunton, Jessie Elland, Danny Hendrix, Linford Johnson, Samuel Thomas and Emma Thornett

When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s trouble ahead for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of adorable, tail-wagging young pups.

Dodie Smith’s classic canine caper is brought to life on stage with spectacular puppetry, show-stopping choreography, witty songs and irresistible puppies!

French Toast 
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Riverside Studios, London 
Cast: Edith Vernes, Che Walker, Paul Hegarty, Josie Benson, Reece Richardson and Suzy Kohane

Basingstoke, 1977. Director Simon Monk thinks his musical adaptation of the classic French play Phedre will be his come-back ticket to England. Jacqueline Bremont, a French theatre diva, has decided that it will be the role of her life. But there are just a few minor details to iron out: she can’t sing, she can’t dance, and Simon has no intention of casting her. Can the show survive a cavalcade of rampaging egos, romantic entanglements and linguistic lapses? Bonne chance! 

Nowhere
Rating: 4.5/5
Venue: Battersea Arts Centre
Cast: Khalid Abdalla

In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events. From the histories of colonialism and decolonisation; friendship and loss; protests and uprising against regimes across the world; to the violence in Gaza, Khalid brings together the personal and the political in an act of anti-biography that asks how we got here and how we find agency amidst the mazes of history.

One of the Boys
Rating: 3.5/5
Venue: Playground Theatre
Cast: Miriam Grace Edwards, Jess Gough, Daniel Kendrick and Matt Ray Brown

Eve is on the brink of a ground-breaking career move; she is about to become the first woman in her company to land the role of CEO. Yes, she’s had to compromise, make personal sacrifices, but it was all worth it... right?

Written by exciting new playwright Tim Edge and directed by Lydia McKinley, ONE OF THE BOYS is an edge of the seat thriller exposing dark truths in the corporate world where nothing is quite what it seems, and no one can be trusted.

The next interview in our stagey chat series is with David J Keogh: writer, producer and actor in a rip-roaringly funny, powerful new play, Past Tents. Past Tents is set to open today and is running at the Golden Goose Theatre until 12th October.

Get yourself comfy and join us for the next segment of Stagey Chat!

The Mystery of Little Angel Theatre
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Little Angel Studios, London

Join super sleuth Danyah Miller to unravel ‘The Mystery of Little Angel Theatre’. From the award-winning creators of ‘I Believe in Unicorns’ comes this new brain-teasing interactive adventure. Combining live board game elements with a thrilling evidence hunt, you’ll become a detective faced with intriguing suspects, curious objects and a detailed theatre map. Can we crack this case together? Navigate through secrets and surprises, watch camera footage and uncover hidden clues, every riddle bringing us closer to the truth. Expect mischief, intrigue, spontaneous stories and of course a sprinkle of magic. Get involved... get it solved!