By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 22 June, runs through 29 June 2024 RUNTIME: 70 minutes (no interval)
We’re amused by the ‘no nudity’ disclaimer in the marketing for this 2-hander about a gay sauna meet-cute.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 22 June, running through 27 July 2024 RUNTIME: 135 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Author Faith Omole is perhaps best known for her 2023 Olivier Award-nominated role for Best Actress In A Musical for Richard Hawley’s Standing At The Sky’s Edge.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Saturday 15 June, running through 20 July 2024 RUNTIME: 145 minutes including a 20-minute interval) Update: Justine Mitchell replaces Williams. Shows were postponed from Tuesday 18 July and resume Monday 24 July 2024
A sexual assault takes place on an elite university campus and an activist student reports it to the first ever female master of the college hoping for action.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Friday 14 June 2024, opens 25 June and runs through 10 August 2024 RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
Corden writes the final episode of the beloved comedy Gavin and Stacey this Christmas and here stars in a timely drama as the titular constituent who seeks help from his hard-pressed MP.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 15 July (matinee), runs through 22 June 2024 RUNTIME: 165 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
We’re in the front row and at the start of Act 2 a character asks the audience member on our left to get up on stage and dance with them.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Sunday 16 June, running through Sunday 30 June 2024 RUNTIME: 140 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
It’s unusual for a performer to address their audience directly at the end of a show but Izzard does so here acknowledging it divided critics, urging fans to take to social media to spread the word about its appeal to the ‘young and young at heart’ before it departs this venue in a fortnight to go around the world.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 8 June 2024, opens 18 June and runs through 14 September 2024 RUNTIME: 160 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
‘Mother of God!’ For those wondering what Sergeant Ted Hastings did next in the Line Of Duty, wonder no longer …
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 1 June 2024, closes 30 June 2024 RUNTIME: 135 minutes (including a 15-minute interval) Update: now extended through 27 July 2024
We 1st saw this Pet Shop Boys musical on its debut at the intimate Arts Theatre in London’s West End in 2001 and then on its revival at Above The Stag in Vauxhall in 2019 and said: ‘If you’re a Pet Shop Boys fan you’ll marvel at just how good these songs are but also why being so ahead of its time can be the only reason why it wasn’t a bigger hit’.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN? Saturday 1 June 2024 (matinee), and runs through 14 July 2024 RUNTIME: 120 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
This hilarious and really quite touching new British musical answers the question what would happen if you gave 9 Year 11 teens a robot baby each for a week that needs caring for 24/7 and cries, needs feeding and poops?
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Friday 24 May 2024, runs through 6 July 2024 and then tours the UK RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
‘What’s your damage, Heather?’ The moment we realise we’re not the target audience for this musical of an 80s cult film is when we start to see young women dressed in different coloured blazers as if part of the terrifying clique of bullies called Heather at its heart.
