By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Saturday 16 April, opens 27 April and runs to 18 June 2022
RUNTIME: 100 minutes (no interval)
Defence barrister Tessa Ensler revels in the certainty of the law – defendants are either convicted or acquitted, everything is either black or white, right or wrong.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHEN?: Friday 15 April 2022
SETLIST: Felt Mountain; Paper Bag; Pilots; Deer Stop; Human; Hairy Trees; Road To Somewhere; Eat Yourself; Moon In Your Mouth; You Never Know; Black Cherry; Utopia; Lovely Head; Ride A White Horse; Strict Machine; Train; Oompa Radar
An hour into tonight’s show and singer Alison Goldfrapp announces from the stage that she wants to take a picture of the audience and instructs us to get to our feet.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Sigrid’s sophomore album How To Let Go is released 6 May 2022 and this new single contains the defiantly optimistic lyric: ‘It Gets Dark so I can see the stars.’
By Aline Mahrud and Neil Durham
WHEN? Thursday 12 May 2022
WHERE? PalaOlimpico, Turin, Italy
HOW DO I WATCH? BBC3 8pm (UK time)
We think the standard of this 2nd semi final is far greater than Tuesday’s 1st and also it will therefore be tougher for the better songs here to advance to Saturday’s final.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN? Saturday 10 April, opens 14 April, booking to 14 May 2022 RUNTIME? 150 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
2 years ago 1 of the 1st comedies we had tickets for that was Covid-cancelled was a revival of Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love starring Rachael Stirling at this very venue.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN? matinee Sunday 3 April, runs to 8 May 2022
RUNTIME: 160 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
Conversion therapy is headline news in the UK and there seems no more apt time for this new musical based on a beloved 1999 cult film starring RuPaul and Michelle Williams to be taking its bow.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2
WHEN? matinee Saturday 2 April, booking until 24 September 2022 RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including 20-minute interval)
Settle (pictued above right with Miriam-Teak Lee) sang the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning This Is Me in Pasek and Paul‘s film The Greatest Showman and here makes her West End debut memorably.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHEN?: Saturday 2 April, opens 9 April, booking to Saturday 28 May 2022
RUNTIME: 157 minutes (including 15-minute interval)
‘Chameleon’ is the word best used to describe actor Bertie Carvel, the winner of 2 Oliviers and a Tony for roles including Rupert Murdoch in Ink.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHEN?: Wednesday 30 March, tour runs until 6 March 2023
SETLIST: Take Me Home; Disco Inferno; Wild Forever; Over and Over; All Night Long; Hypnotised; Mixed Up World; Young Blood; There Are Worse Things I Could Do; Love Is a Camera; Dancing Queen; Get Over You; Lady; Groovejet; Sing It Back; Crying At The Discoteque; Like A Prayer; Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer); Murder On The Dancefloor; Our House; My Favourite Things
It’s hard to imagine this Kitchen Disco Tour being quite so successful if Sophie Ellis Bextor hadn’t broadcast shows live from her home on social media featuring her family during the Covid lockdowns.
By Aline Mahrud and Neil Durham
WHEN? Tuesday 10 May 2022
WHERE? PalaOlimpico, Turin, Italy
HOW DO I WATCH? BBC3 8pm (UK time)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sees the former thrown out of this 66th Contest while the latter are now favourites to win the whole thing.
