THEATRE REVIEW: 46 Beacon starring Jay Taylor & Oliver Coopersmith
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 8/4 (matinee), runs to 29/4
Do you remember the first time?
- Read on for reasons including why you should see this one-act play
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THEATRE REVIEW: The Life starring Sharon D. Clarke
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Southwark Playhouse
WHEN: 1/4 (matinee), runs to 29/4
We loved Cy Coleman’s score for film noir musical City Of Angels at the Donmar and so had to see his show about 80s New York prostitutes starring one of our favourite actresses, Sharon D. Clarke (pictured second from left above).
- Read on for reasons including what a dynamic intimate theatrical space this is
THEATRE REVIEW: 42nd Street starring Sheena Easton
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
WHEN: 25/3, runs to 22/7
33 years ago teenager Catherine Zeta-Jones was promoted from the chorus line to leading lady on this stage when the actress playing Peggy Sawyer in the Olivier Award-winning Broadway transfer fell ill.
- Read on for reasons including details of Sheena Easton’s West End debut
THEATRE REVIEW: The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? starring Sophie Okonedo & Damian Lewis
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Theatre Royal Haymarket
WHEN: 24/3, runs to 27/5
Click-thump. The audience at this first preview starts leaving and tipping up their chairs, in very small, but regular, trickles around the middle of act two.
- Read on for reasons including why it’s lucky this three-act play has no interval
THEATRE REVIEW: Love In Idleness starring Eve Best, Anthony Head & Helen George
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 18/3, press night 20/3, runs to 29/4
Eve Best (pictured above) is 1 of our favourite actresses and here she plays a widow ‘living in sin’ with a Cabinet minister, much to the horror of her 18-year-old son who is returning home after evacuation in World War Two.
- Read on for reasons including why Edward Bluemel is a name to watch out for
THEATRE REVIEW: Don Juan In Soho starring David Tennant
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN 17/3, press night 28/3, runs to 10/6
There’s a moment towards the end of this Molière adaptation where David Tennant rails against former Chancellor George Osborne (announced today as the new editor of the Standard) and Donald Trump to great applause.
- Read on for reasons including why Adrian Scarborough is the highlight of this show
THEATRE REVIEW: Limehouse starring Roger Allam, Debra Gillett & Tom Goodman-Hill
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHERE: Donmar Warehouse
WHEN: 16/3 (matinee), runs to 15/4
This dramatisation of the moment in 1981 when ‘Gang Of Four’ Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers left the Labour party to form a party of their own is a recent history that will be familiar to many.
- Read on for reasons including how £10 standing tickets at the Donmar can be upgraded
THEATRE REVIEW: La Cage Aux Folles starring John Partridge
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: New Wimbledon Theatre
WHEN: 15/3 (matinee), runs until 18/3 and then on UK tour until 26/8
Hard to believe, perhaps, that this is the first UK tour this classic 1983 musical, which won six Tonys, has embarked on.
- Read on for reasons including why star John Partridge may not be the Albin you’re expecting
THEATRE REVIEW: Rent starring Lucie Jones
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: New Victoria Theatre, Woking
WHEN: 11/3 (matinee), touring the UK until 27/5
This 20th anniversary production of Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical features a showstopping performance by this year’s UK Eurovision entrant Lucie Jones as Maureen (pictured above).
- Read on for reasons including why the UK’s Eurovision entry is in safe hands this year
THEATRE REVIEW: The Miser starring Griff Rhys Jones, Lee Mack & Mathew Horne
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: 8/3 (matinee), press night 13/3, runs to 3/6
It’s Budget Day and we decide to see this comedy as cheaply as possible with a £20 restricted view ticket three rows back from the end of the stalls behind a pillar.
- Read on for reasons including why our £20 was well spent
