WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Palace Theatre
WHEN: 9/5/18, booking to 7/4/19
We count ourselves as lucky to have been invited to see this double bill and attribute that to our ATG membership.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN: 5/5, press night 15/5, runs to 28/7/18
There’s a sense of unfinished business about this production which opened at the Donmar in 2009, transferred to Broadway where it won six Tonys but never made it to the West End.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 30/4, press night 1/5 runs to 16/6/18
We groaned when Rhys Ifans was cast in the lead here because he had been so unexpectedly right as Scrooge in this venue’s production of A Christmas Carol that we weren’t sure we wanted to see him quite so soon in something else.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Other Palace
WHEN: 21/4 runs to 6/5/18
‘I was nude on Broadway at 48,’ remembers this screen legend during a two-hour-plus show of songs and stories which reveal what an interesting character Kathleen Turner is
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHERE: Vaudeville Theatre
WHEN: 20/4, press night 3/5, runs to 14/7/18
There are 3 compelling reasons to see this production: Frances Barber, Freddie Fox (pictured above) and Oscar Wilde.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Royal Court Theatre
WHEN: 9/4, press night 13/4 runs to 19/5/18
Hari and Max are mourning the loss of their son but have found a novel coping mechanism, they are going to build a flat-pack replacement of him.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Dominion Theatre
WHEN: 6/4, press night 19/4, runs to 28/7/18
We’d do anything for our love of musical theatre but, given we’re no great fans of Meatloaf, would we do that – and enjoy new Jim Steinman musical Bat Out Of Hell?
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Empire Cinema Haymarket
WHEN: 1/4 (matinee) runs to 2/9/18
The setting is England in 1938 and members of the cast dressed as ushers and usherettes meet us in the foyer of this cinema venue to serenade us to our seats.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Piccadilly Theatre
WHEN: 31/3, press night 24/4, runs to 21/7/18
The biggest compliment we can pay this West End production of the 1992 Baz Luhrmann-directed film is that we return to see it in a fortnight – and we couldn’t be more excited to do so.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Donmar
WHEN: 30/3, press night 3/4, runs to 26/5/18
We’re here for the casting of Linda Bassett, reviewed on this site in Escaped Alone at the Royal Court, as matriarch Lady Wishfort but she is replaced before previews begin.
