By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 19 February (matinee), booking to 27 November 2022
We’re here because Lucie Jones, 1 of the UK’s greatest musical theatre actresses and former Eurovision contestant, has been cast in a musical we haven’t seen since it opened in the West End way back when in 2006.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: **** RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
WHEN?: Opening night Tuesday 22 February 2022 (press ticket), runs to 26 March 2022 Update: transfers to @SohoPlace in London’s West End 15 March through 4 May 2024 Tickets Update: returns to Bush Theatre and runs 12 to 30 September 2023 Tickets
Williams-Stirling plays Jackson Marchetti, a head boy and swimming champion in Netflix’s TV series Sex Education and it’s a role light years from his part in this coming of age story set on a football pitch not far from this west London venue.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 12 February (matinee), runs to 19 March 2022
It’s Steven’s birthday, he’s in a restaurant with his partner and their best friends – and a secret is uncovered.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Thursday 3 February (matinee), running to 5 March RUNTIME: 120 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
Zmitrowicz made our Best Theatre Actress shortlist in 2020 for The Welkin at the National and during her impressive body of work we have already described her as ‘captivating in a role that we felt should have been better explored’ by the author.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Sunday 30 January 2022
We 1st saw this musical co-written by Boy George around 20 years ago on its arrival to London’s West End at what is now Leicester Square Theatre and was then The Venue.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 29 January (matinee), opens 4 February runs to 19 March 2022
5 scenes. 2 actors. 65 minutes. A father. 3 clones of his son.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Saturday 15 January (matinee), runs to Saturday 22 January 2022
We’re here because Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote this musical and we’re big fans of his In The Heights rather than his mega hit Hamilton.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 1 January 2022, opens 20 January, booking to 28 May 2022
Garlanded with 10 Tonys in 2020 and based on Baz Luhrmann’s brilliant 2001 film, this jukebox musical focuses on the spectacle of the story of a visitor to Paris in 1899 who falls in love with a performer at the titular club at the expense of the tale’s romance.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: **** RUNTIME: 75 minutes (no interval)
WHEN?: Sunday 5 December (matinee), ran until Sunday 12 December 2021
Khan plays 20-year-old Quasim, the titular very special guest star, who has been invited home by middle-aged couple Michael and Phil to spice up their sex life.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 11 December, opens 16 December, booking until 5 February 2022 Note: this production did not open and is currently paused because of Covid. Previews resume 29 December 2021
The stage is a dry ski slope for this tale of a family skiing holiday that goes wrong when an avalanche hits.
