WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 17/5 (matinee), press night 17/5, runs to 9/6/18
A grandmother, a mother and her daughter meet in a hotel suite the night before one of them is to be married for an evening of alcohol and home truths.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 15/5/18
RELEASED IN THE UK: 25/5/18
‘I’m so fed up with the division between young and old in society,’ explains Sheila Hancock in a Q&A after a preview screening of her new film about a widow who befriends a guide many years her junior as she attempts to climb a Scottish mountain.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
RELEASED IN THE UK: 2/5/18
Each is a Dame, they are all in their ninth decades and have met regularly at Joan Plowright’s countryside retreat since they got to know each other many years ago.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 14/5/18, press night 22/5, runs to 7/7/18
Four job applicants arrive for an interview for a top management position in a big company and find the selection procedure will be an unconventional series of mind games.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Palace Theatre
WHEN: 9/5/18, booking to 7/4/19
We count ourselves as lucky to have been invited to see this double bill and attribute that to our ATG membership.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
UK RELEASE: 6/4/18
Hard to believe perhaps that Love, Simon is the 1st film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on a gay teenage romance.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Southbank Centre
WHEN?: 10/5/18, booking to 29/7/18
STOP PRESS: Super Troupers arrives at The 02 6/12/19 to 31/8/20 Tickets
Did you ever see ABBA live? Probably not because, as we learn here, they remained in Sweden for all but three months of the 10 years they were at their most popular.
WHERE: BAFTA
WHEN: 18/4/18, 3 episodes start on BBC1 in May
‘Join the Liberals and widen your circle,’ jokes Hugh Grant to many laughs during this star-studded Q&A after a world premiere screening of the first of three episodes of A Very English Scandal which is to air on BBC1 next month.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN: 5/5, press night 15/5, runs to 28/7/18
There’s a sense of unfinished business about this production which opened at the Donmar in 2009, transferred to Broadway where it won six Tonys but never made it to the West End.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 30/4, press night 1/5 runs to 16/6/18
We groaned when Rhys Ifans was cast in the lead here because he had been so unexpectedly right as Scrooge in this venue’s production of A Christmas Carol that we weren’t sure we wanted to see him quite so soon in something else.
