WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
We’re well into summer, it’s Glastonbury Festival next week and we think we might have unearthed the song of the season already.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Tuesday 13 June, runs through 11 August 2023 RUNTIME: 180 minutes (including a 20-minute interval) BREAKING: This production transfers to the Prince Edward Theatre 9 October through 13 January 2024 Tickets
Can it really be true that England’s football team are the ‘premature ejaculators’ of penalty taking and the quick speed with which they take them corresponds directly to their lack of success?
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 10 June, opens 22 June and runs through 13 January 2024 RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
There are 2 memorable songs in this new musical based on the 1993 film which starred the late Robin Williams as an out of work voice actor who poses as Scottish nanny Euphegenia Doubtfire to be closer to his 3 children during a messy divorce.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Friday 9 June, opens 14 June and runs through 29 July 2023 RUNTIME: 120 minutes (no interval)
Candles burn and flicker against the brick back wall of this beautiful intimate venue and we’re reminded why director Rebecca Frecknall has been shortlisted as best director in 3 of the last 5 Olivier Awards.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: A Thousand Orchids; Breaking The Circle; Until The Wheels Fall Off; Everything Is Sweet; Lost In The Sunshine; Tokyo; Beyond The Universe; He’s A Dreamer; Reflections; Hearing In Colour; Broken Toy; We’ve Been Watching You
We’ve only ever been to Tokyo once and it was so different to anywhere we’ve been before or since that it was extremely disorientating while being fascinating at the same time.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
TRACKLIST: Too Much Music; Do The Television; Voices; I Used To Be In Love; Really Big Deal; Last Man Dancing; 8 Ball; Devil Came Down The Dancefloor; Mess Of Me; Doses; Radio Eyes; Diamonds Don’t Burn
SETLIST: Too Much Music; Really Big Deal; Any Which Way; Meltdown; Do The Television; Voices; Comfortably Numb; I Used To Be In Love; Creep City; Laura; Take Your Mama; Last Man Dancing; I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’; Devil Came Down The Dancefloor; 8 Ball; Destiny; Invisible Light; Filthy/Gorgeous
We’ve recently read Shears’ memoir Boys Keep Swinging and it’s a fascinating insight into the mindset of the former Scissor Sisters’ frontman who has struggled for inspiration.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
32-year-old Norwegian singer Dagny Norvoll Sandvik’s debut collection Strangers/Lovers was an album of the month for us in January 2021 and this new single is a complete change in direction.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 27 May 2023 (last night)
There’s a moment during this dark Noel Coward revival when Stephen Mangan’s Elyot expertly plays his wordless response to Rachael Stirling’s ex-wife Sibyl (The Way You Look Tonight) on the piano and it’s absolutely exquisite.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
Today is Kylie’s 55th birthday and this comeback electropop song is her biggest hit single in the UK since Into The Blue made number 12 in 2014.
By Aline Mahrud
WHEN?: Saturday 20 May, runs until 17 June 2023.
WORTH A LOOK?: *** RUNTIME: 140 minutes (including a 20 minute interval)
Southwark Playhouse is currently running theatres in 2 different south London locations and tonight we mistakenly pitch up at the new Elephant rather than the old Borough site which is our bad but gives a little insight into the rather haphazard nature of this venue.
