By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Monday 28 November, runs to 25 February 2023 RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
Emma Corrin identifies as non-binary and, as such, their portrayal of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando would perhaps have the celebrated author cheering from the stalls were she still alive.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 26 November (matinee), opens 2 December and runs to 8 January 2023 RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
There’s a new dynamic to this year’s annual Greenwich Theatre pantomime with the strongest performance we can ever remember from a leading man thanks to Dear Evan Hansen‘s David Breeds (pictured centre above).
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 19 November (matinee), running until 18 February 2023
So, cards on the table, we’re huge fans of author James Graham but chose not to see this on its run at the Young Vic last winter because its subject matter failed to fire our imagination.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 12 November (matinee), runs to 24 December 2022
We’ve written a great deal about musical Cabaret which celebrates its 1-year birthday in the West End this week and Good is very much the perfect play accompaniment.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Sunday 23 October (matinee), runs 6 November 2022 RUNTIME: 65 minutes (no interval)
We’ve written before that 1 way you know when a piece of theatre is connecting with its audience is when you can hear them sobbing in the quiet bits.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 22 October (matinee), runs to 3 December 2022 RUNTIME: 170 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
There are so many male reasons – music by Elton John, lyrics by the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and a book by James (Ink) Graham – to be excited for this musical life story of US tele-evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker but, ultimately, it is its leading lady Katie Brayben whose input shines brightest.
By Neil ‘Nello’ Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Saturday 15 October, runs to 26 November 2022 RUNTIME: 140 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
We’re at the opening night of the 1st new West End theatre in 50 years to see the transfer of this New Vic Theatre production about the life of Neil Baldwin, ground covered in the BAFTA-winning film of the same name starring Toby Jones.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 8 October (matinee), booking to 16 December 2023
We’re here for our 4th visit to The Kit Kat Club in less than a year because a major cast change gives us our 3rd EmCee – Callum Scott Howells from TV’s It’s A Sin – and 3rd Sally Bowles.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 1 October (matinee), runs to 26 November 2022 RUNTIME: 105 minutes (no interval)
Russell Beale plays Borkman the titular banker jailed for fraud, released and plotting his comeback from the top floor of his luxury home he shares with his estranged wife.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 1 October, runs to 3 December 2022 RUNTIME: 100 minutes (no interval)
Like a downplayed Star Wars, this new musical opens with the following words beamed against the stage’s back wall: ‘Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You probably didn’t hear about it. It wasn’t very important.’
