By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 29 June 2024, running through 21 September 2024 RUNTIME: 120 minutes (no interval)
The Role Play That Goes Wrong might have been a more illuminating title for this new tale about 3 inter-racial couples seeking help.
Staunton won our Best Theatre Actress monsta for Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2017 and here stars at the London Palladium in the titular role in this classic 1964 musical about a matchmaker who travels to New York. The starry cast includes Jenna Russell (STEVE, Seven Dials Playhouse), Tyrone Huntley (The View UpStairs, Soho Theatre) and Harry Hepple (Boy Meets Girl Q&A, BFI). Runs 6 July through 14 September 2024. Tickets Our 1st preview review
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 22 June, runs through 29 June 2024 RUNTIME: 70 minutes (no interval)
We’re amused by the ‘no nudity’ disclaimer in the marketing for this 2-hander about a gay sauna meet-cute.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 22 June, running through 27 July 2024 RUNTIME: 135 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Author Faith Omole is perhaps best known for her 2023 Olivier Award-nominated role for Best Actress In A Musical for Richard Hawley’s Standing At The Sky’s Edge.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Saturday 15 June, running through 20 July 2024 RUNTIME: 145 minutes including a 20-minute interval) Update: Justine Mitchell replaces Williams. Shows were postponed from Tuesday 18 July and resume Monday 24 July 2024
A sexual assault takes place on an elite university campus and an activist student reports it to the first ever female master of the college hoping for action.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Friday 14 June 2024, opens 25 June and runs through 10 August 2024 RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
Corden writes the final episode of the beloved comedy Gavin and Stacey this Christmas and here stars in a timely drama as the titular constituent who seeks help from his hard-pressed MP.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 15 July (matinee), runs through 22 June 2024 RUNTIME: 165 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
We’re in the front row and at the start of Act 2 a character asks the audience member on our left to get up on stage and dance with them.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Sunday 16 June, running through Sunday 30 June 2024 RUNTIME: 140 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
It’s unusual for a performer to address their audience directly at the end of a show but Izzard does so here acknowledging it divided critics, urging fans to take to social media to spread the word about its appeal to the ‘young and young at heart’ before it departs this venue in a fortnight to go around the world.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: Heartbreak In The Making; Same Again (For Love); Ray-Bans; Somebody’s Baby; Hate Being Alone; Strawberry Dream; Close; In My Bones
‘Maybe we’re not made forever, maybe I don’t get to grow older with you, This house is keeping us together, we’re so Close but I’ve never felt further from you …’
