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.
The first we saw of Phoebe Waller-Bridge was playing a barrister in Broadchurch without knowing that she had won a Critics’ Circle award in 2013 as most promising playwright.
Our most read content of the year so far was shared by Sir Ian on his Facebook page and was a Shakespeare BFI Q&A with him in April. We’ve seen him many times filming Vicious at ITV Studios on the South Bank but never on stage in the theatre – until now and this Broadway transfer. Runs 8/9 to 17/12 at Wyndham’s Theatre. Picture via No Man’s Land. Tickets here.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 1st preview 15/7, press night 16/8, runs to 17/9
24 hours before we are due to attend this 1st preview we receive an email from the venue saying the show’s not quite ready, designating it the final dress rehearsal, offering us full refunds and saying our tickets are still valid.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: 23/7 runs to 13/8
It’s the news every partner of a theatre lover dreads: the tickets you bought eight months earlier to celebrate a birthday are no longer valid. And you find out that birthday morning. By email.
