WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHERE: Barbican
WHEN: 16/9, runs to 1/10
When prostitute Dol Common (the excellent Siobhan McSweeney) is winched so she is left hanging from the ceiling (picture above) it doesn’t feel out of place in this re-imagining of a comedy by one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Shaftesbury Theatre
WHEN: 15/9 (matinee), booking to October 2017
We’re sitting on the end of the third row and there’s a moment in the second act when the actress playing Diana Ross appears in the audience looking for someone to duet with and is stood directly in front of us.
This 18-song David Bowie musical ran off Broadway for three months from November 2015 and features hits including Life On Mars?, Heroes and Absolute Beginners. It was written by Bowie with Once author Enda Walsh. Starring Dexter’s Michael C. Hall and directed by Ivo van Hove, it runs 25/10 – 22/1 at the King’s Cross Theatre and seems a fitting salute to the star who died 10 days before curtain down on the US show. Tickets.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Wembley Stadium
WHEN: 10/9
SETLIST: Miami 2017; Angry Young Man; Just the Way You Are; The Entertainer; Zanzibar; My Life; Vienna; The Lion Sleeps Tonight; The Longest Time; Movin’ Out; Leningrad; Allentown; New York State Of Mind; Don’t Ask Me Why; Sometimes A Fantasy; Highway To Hell; We Didn’t Start The Fire; She’s Always A Woman; Keeping The Faith; The River Of Dreams; Nessun dorma; Scenes From An Italian Restaurant; Piano Man; Uptown Girl; It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me; Big Shot; Only The Good Die Young; You May Be Right.
Welcome to Billy Joel’s only UK gig of 2016 and his first concert on these shores since November 2013.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
OUT: 2/9
TRACKLIST: Wild Forever; Death of Love; Crystallise; Hush Little Voices; Here Comes The Rapture; Come With Us; Cassandra; My Puppet Heart; Unrequited; The Saddest Happiness; Don’t Shy Away
The single which launched this album, Come With Us, is, in our opinion, Ms Ellis-Bextor’s best since 2002’s Music Gets the Best Of Me.
Lady Gaga’s next single is Mark Ronson-produced and out on iTunes today (9 September).
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 5/9
Sir Derek Jacobi is the narrator of the BBC’s children series In The Night Garden and, here, in the third season of dark BBC2 comic delight Inside No. 9, well, he’s … that would be telling ….
Would becoming a member of your favourite theatre make it easier for you to get the most in-demand tickets? We became a member of five of our favourite London venues to see what the value for money is.
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.
