WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OPENS IN THE UK: 8/2/18
Guillermo del Toro’s tenth effort arrives on these shores with more Oscar nominations than any other film this year, a startling 13.
WHEN?: 7pm (UK time) 3/2/18 on SVT (link at the bottom of the page below)
WHERE: Karlstad
It’s not unusual for heat 1 of Melodifestivalen to spring a song to beat and we definitely think there’s one here – and it probably is the one you were expecting.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Bridge Theatre
WHEN: 27/1, press night 30/1, runs to 15/4/18
This is the show that should have been the one to launch Nick Hytner’s Bridge Theatre.
WHEN?: BBC2 7/2/18 7.30pm
WHERE: Brighton Dome
We think this year’s UK Eurovision selection is the best since its 90s heyday (when Deuce were beaten by Love City Groove) and venture that there’s a potential Eurovision Song Contest winner in this year’s half dozen.
Postponed from October due to health reasons, the world’s greatest pop star drops by for two nights at The 02 this month. Her last album Joanne won our monsta for Best Album in 2016. Tickets Her new film A Star Is Born is out in May.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Harold Pinter Theatre
WHEN: 19/1, runs to 14/4/18
More than 60 years after the curtain came down on Harold Pinter’s second play in London after dire reviews and just eight performances, it is revived again.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
WHEN: 17/1, runs to 20/1/18
PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden was working in the Royal Court press office when her 75-minute monologue came to the venue’s attention.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN: 15/1, runs to 20/1/18
Treading the boards at a West End theatre is not where we would expect to find one of our favourite stand-ups.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT in the UK: 12/1/18
There’s a moment in this film when we burst into tears and that’s not something that we often do at the cinema, especially these days.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 12/1
One Voice is a series of monologues commissioned by the Old Vic which consists of spoken word pieces of about 15 minutes long by renowned actors without scenery.
