WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Found111
WHEN: 27/8, press night 31/8 runs to 8/10
This is our first visit to this venue which is a temporary theatre on the site of the former Central St Martins School of Art in Soho.
WORTH A LOOK: **** (Will) *** (Cher)
OUT: 26/8
It seems like so much has changed since about-to-be-winner Will Young stood up to judge Simon Cowell on Pop Idol in Teddington Studios on ITV in 2001.
The first we saw of Phoebe Waller-Bridge was playing a barrister in Broadchurch without knowing that she had won a Critics’ Circle award in 2013 as most promising playwright.
Our most read content of the year so far was shared by Sir Ian on his Facebook page and was a Shakespeare BFI Q&A with him in April. We’ve seen him many times filming Vicious at ITV Studios on the South Bank but never on stage in the theatre – until now and this Broadway transfer. Runs 8/9 to 17/12 at Wyndham’s Theatre. Picture via No Man’s Land. Tickets here.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 1st preview 15/7, press night 16/8, runs to 17/9
24 hours before we are due to attend this 1st preview we receive an email from the venue saying the show’s not quite ready, designating it the final dress rehearsal, offering us full refunds and saying our tickets are still valid.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: 23/7 runs to 13/8
It’s the news every partner of a theatre lover dreads: the tickets you bought eight months earlier to celebrate a birthday are no longer valid. And you find out that birthday morning. By email.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: now
TRACKLIST: iT; Saint Claude; Tilted; No Harm Is Done; Science Fiction; Paradis Perdue; Half Ladies; Jonathan; Narcissus Is Back; Safe and Holy; Night 52; Here.
Breakout hit Tilted is A-Listed at Radio 1 and B-Listed at Radio 2 as we type. But it was quite possibly BBC1’s Graham Norton Show where you first encountered arguably the song of the summer.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT: 5/8
Musical soundtracks can be a risk when the show is removed from the showbusiness equation and the listener is left with the business audio end.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Young Vic
WHEN: 29/7, runs to 24/9
Has Billie Piper won an Olivier Award for best actress? We ask because this performance as the protagonist in Simon Stone’s adaptation of Lorca’s classic about a woman destroyed by her childlessness may well bear fruit for her where The Effect failed in 2012.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN: 30/7, runs to 14/10
Our last same-day multi-play event like this featured four Shakespeare plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company starring David Tennant at the Barbican over a January weekend.
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