WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE? Other Palace RUN TIME: 2 hours and 20 minutes (including interval)
WHEN?: 20/10 (matinee) runs to 21/10 and doesn’t, now, transfer to the Ambassadors from 27/10
One of the themes of this new musical co-written by A1’s Ben Adams is striving for the best and it’s a message those involved with the show would do well to bear in mind.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE? Bridge Theatre RUNTIME: 90 minutes (no interval)
WHEN?: 13/10, press night 24/10, runs to 6/1/19
To say Martin McDonagh’s new work is eagerly awaited would be to seriously underplay how hot he is is right now.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Eventim Apollo
WHEN?: 12/10, tour runs until 14/10/18 (more dates likely, see link below)
SETLIST: As One; Wastelands; Outsiders; We Are The Pigs; So Young; Heroine; The Drowners; He Is Dead; Tides; Roadkill; Sabotage; Dolly; It Starts And Ends With You; Filmstar; Metal Mickey; Trash; Animal Nitrate; Pantomime Horse; The 2 Of Us; The Invisibles; Flytipping; Beautiful Ones; Life Is Golden
Ask us what our favourite ever gig is and we’d probably say Suede at Portsmouth Pyramids in 1993 because it was the 1st time we felt we had ever found our tribe.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
RUN TIME: 2 hours and 16 minutes
WHEN?: UK release 3/10/18
We’re big fans of Lady Gaga and listened to the soundtrack of this before seeing the film which convinced us that we just had to make a trip to the cinema for it.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE?: Wyndhams Theatre RUN TIME: 80 minutes (no interval)
WHEN?: 6/10, press night 9/10, runs to 1/12/18
French playwright Florian Zeller is interviewed in the programme and declares: ‘For me, theatre is above all the place for questions and not answers – for doubt more than certainty and conviction.’
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Young Vic RUNTIME: 105 minutes (no interval)
WHEN?: 5/10, press night 8/10, runs to 17/11/18
Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah arrives at the Young Vic with a modern-day musical re-imagining of Twelfth Night that he co-directed and was a hit this summer in New York’s Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park program.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Royal Festival Hall
WHEN?: 3/10, tour next year
SETLIST: Groovejet; Wild Forever; Catch You; Me & My Imagination; Youngblood; Love Is A Camera; Not Giving Up; The Sun’s On Us; Music Gets The Best Of Me; Bittersweet; Take Me Home; Young Hearts Run Free; Love Is You; Groovejet; Don’t Leave Me This Way; Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer; Murder On The Dancefloor; A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed
Perhaps it’s having a former Blue Peter presenter as a mother but Sophie Ellis-Bextor has always been refreshingly down-to-earth. So, when she describes tonight’s orchestral pop extravaganza as a ‘dream come true’, the qualification that: ‘All I had to do was pay for it’ comes as little surprise.
By Carron Stacey
WHERE?: The O2
WHEN?: 30/9
When writing a gig review, I like to explain what sort of fan I am. I was 10 when Tainted Love came out. Of course I loved it. I loved all their 80s hits, loved the naughtiness of their debut Non Stop Erotic Cabaret album of the same year and liked a few of Marc’s solo ballads.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE?: Gielgud Theatre RUNTIME: 2 hours and 35 minutes (with a 20-minute interval)
WHEN?: 28/9, press night 17/10, runs to 22/12/18 (note: now extended to 30/3/19)
Company turns 50 in 2020 and the biggest compliment we can pay this inventive reimagining with a female Bobbi is that it works so well that it’s hard to imagine with a male lead.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE?: Donmar RUNTIME: 3 hours and 10 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
WHEN?: 28/9, press night 3/10, runs to 24/11/18
Does this production in which lead actor and actress alternate their roles offer a gender fluid theatrical 1st?
