THEATRE REVIEW: 46 Beacon starring Jay Taylor & Oliver Coopersmith
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 8/4 (matinee), runs to 29/4
Do you remember the first time?
- Read on for reasons including why you should see this one-act play
Author: mrmonstagigz
PREVIEW: Eurovision Song Contest 2017 semi final 2
WHEN?: 11/5
WHERE: BBC 8pm (link below)
We’ll be throwing our support behind Estonia here, with France, Germany and Ukraine voting of the countries already qualified for the final. Rehearsals started 30/4 and we’ve been updating our semi 2 predictions to reflect them as they progress. Here’s our thoughts on the 18 entries vying for 10 final slots.
- Who’s through and who’s on the 1st plane out of Kiev? Read on for our semi 2 predictions
Q&A/FILM REVIEW: City Of Tiny Lights starring Riz Ahmed & Billie Piper
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 28/3, film released in the UK 7/4
‘Straight in, no messing,’ jokes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Riz Ahmed as the first question the audience asks is his thoughts on Brexit.
- Read on for reasons including why City Of Tiny Lights is a London film with a difference
THEATRE REVIEW: The Life starring Sharon D. Clarke
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Southwark Playhouse
WHEN: 1/4 (matinee), runs to 29/4
We loved Cy Coleman’s score for film noir musical City Of Angels at the Donmar and so had to see his show about 80s New York prostitutes starring one of our favourite actresses, Sharon D. Clarke (pictured second from left above).
- Read on for reasons including what a dynamic intimate theatrical space this is
ALBUM REVIEW: Silver Eye by Goldfrapp
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
OUT: 31/3/17
TRACKLISTING: Anymore; Systemagic; Tiger Man; Become The One; Faux Suede Drifter; Zodiac Black; Beast That Never Was; Everything Is Never Enough; Moon In Your Mouth; Oceans
We saw Goldfrapp at Camden Roundhouse this week and they played six of these 10 tracks there.
- Read on for reasons including why we can’t wait for Goldfrapp’s Glastonbury set
PREVIEW: Eurovision Song Contest 2017 semi final 1
WHEN?: 9/5/17
WHERE: BBC 8pm (link below)
The UK, along with Italy and Spain, vote in this first semi final. Rehearsals started 30/4 and we’ve been updating our semi 1 predictions to reflect them as they progress, so here’s our thoughts on the 18 entries vying for 10 final slots.
- Who’s through and who’s on the 1st plane out of Kiev? Read on for our semi 1 predictions
LIVE REVIEW: Goldfrapp
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Camden Roundhouse
WHEN: 27/3
SETLIST: Utopia; Lovely Head; Anymore; Train; Ocean; Moon In Your Mouth; You Never Know; Dreaming; Slide In; Everything Is Never Enough; Become The One; Systemagic; Number One; Ride A White Horse; Black Cherry; Shiny and Warm; Ooh La La; Strict Machine
Goldfrapp last played in London when they headlined an Albert Hall gig in November 2014 and were joined onstage by kindred spirit John Grant to close the book on their downbeat, cinematic and folky Tales Of Us album.
- Read on for reasons including what new album Silver Eye sounds like
THEATRE REVIEW: 42nd Street starring Sheena Easton
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
WHEN: 25/3, runs to 22/7
33 years ago teenager Catherine Zeta-Jones was promoted from the chorus line to leading lady on this stage when the actress playing Peggy Sawyer in the Olivier Award-winning Broadway transfer fell ill.
- Read on for reasons including details of Sheena Easton’s West End debut
THEATRE REVIEW: The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? starring Sophie Okonedo & Damian Lewis
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Theatre Royal Haymarket
WHEN: 24/3, runs to 27/5
Click-thump. The audience at this first preview starts leaving and tipping up their chairs, in very small, but regular, trickles around the middle of act two.
- Read on for reasons including why it’s lucky this three-act play has no interval
LIVE REVIEW: Marc Almond
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Camden Roundhouse
WHEN: 22/3, UK tour runs to 28/3
SETLIST: Adored and Explored; Stories Of Johnny; A Lover Spurned; The Days Of Pearly Spencer; Tears Run Rings; The Idol; Where The Heart Is; Child Star; Desperate Hours; Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart; Scar; Torch; A Kind Of Love; Jacky; Bedsitter; What; Down In The Subway; Soul Inside; Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go; Hand On My Heart; Memorabilia; Say Hello Wave Goodbye
We’ve seen Marc Almond several times over the last four decades but never performing such a lengthy greatest hits set – until tonight.
- Read on for reasons including Marc’s emotional tribute to Soft Cell partner Dave Ball
