Author: mrmonstagigz
THEATRE PREVIEW REVIEW: Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 20/11, press night 2/12, runs to 5/3/16. Transfers to Savoy Theatre and runs 9/4/16 – 2/7/16.
In July we declared that Imelda Staunton was giving the best performance in the West End in Gypsy.
PREVIEW: 4 reasons why we’re backing 4th Impact to win X Factor
- Ain’t No Other band
Our favourite four little Christina Aguileras sang Ain’t No Other Man (performance clip below) and survived Saturday’s shock elimination by the skin of their teeth. This week the public chose I’ll Be There by the Jackson 5 for them to sing in Saturday’s Juke Box show.
ALBUM REVIEW: 25 by Adele
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OUT: 20/11
TRACKLIST: Hello; Send My Love (To Your New Lover); I Miss You; When We Were Young; Remedy; Water Under The Bridge; River Lea; Love In The Dark; Million Years Ago; All I Ask; Sweetest Devotion.
What’s that we hear? The sound of business as usual and no risks being taken.
THEATRE REVIEW: The Homecoming starring John Simm and Gemma Chan
WORTH A LOOK: ****
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios
WHEN: 19/11 runs to 13/2
This 50th anniversary production of Harold Pinter’s unsettling play has attracted a stellar cast including Gemma Chan (who starred in Channel Four’s Humans), John Simm, Gary Kemp and Keith Allen.
PREVIEW: 10 reasons why we can’t wait for December
- Madonna tour
The undisputed Queen of Pop’s Rebel Heart tour arrives for two nights at The 02 from 1/12 and we’ll be reporting from there for you. This will be the 6th time we’ve seen Madge live and she’s reportedly more comfortable playing some of her oldest hits. Photograph via Facebook courtesy Madonna from Montreal copyright Kevin Mazur. Tickets here.
Read on for reasons 2 to 10 including Star Wars, Marina and the Diamonds, Guys and Dolls and Brian Cox
FILM REVIEW: The Lady In The Van
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 16/11
It is hard to imagine characters more different for Dame Maggie Smith to play than Downton Abbey‘s Countess of Grantham and the titular Lady In The Van here.
THEATRE REVIEW: As You Like It starring Rosalie Craig, Joe Bannister, Mark Benton & Patsy Ferran
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: National Theatre
WHEN: 11/11 (matinee), runs to 5/3/16
The unforgettable stage transformation from 21st century office to Forest of Arden is our abiding memory from this playful production by Polly Findlay.
LIVE REVIEW: Suede premiere Night Thoughts album & film
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Camden Roundhouse
WHEN: 13/11, also playing 14/11
SETLIST: When You Are Young; Outsiders; No Tomorrow; Pale Snow; I Don’t Know How To Reach You; What I’m Trying To Tell You; Tightrope; Learning To Be; Like Kids; I Can’t Give Her What She Wants; When You Were Young; The Fur and the Feathers.
HITS AND TREATS SET: Moving; Killing Of A Flashboy; Trash; Animal Nitrate; We Are The Pigs; Heroine; Pantomime Horse; The Living Dead; Darkest Days; New Generation; So Young; Metal Mickey; Beautiful Ones; The Drowners; My Insatiable One; To The Birds.
We’re imagining the meeting at Suede HQ in response to the unanimously positive reaction to 2013 comeback album Bloodsports, the band’s first long-player for 11 years: ‘What would Kate Bush do next?’
THEATRE REVIEW & Q&A: The Hairy Ape starring Bertie Carvel
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 12/11, runs to 21/11
We’ve seen Bertie Carvel within a few short months as a doomed king in ancient Greece (Bakkhai), a cheating modern day husband (TV’s Doctor Foster) and now a brutish American 20th century ship labourer.
