We awarded 12 monstas for the best pop, theatre, TV and film of 2016 in December – and here we look at the cream of 2017 so far and what’s to come. James McAvoy and George Mackay are previous winners in this category.
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.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE Garrick Theatre
WHEN: 8/2 (matinee), runs to 25/2
The curtain is about to go up on this story of British government in the 70s when the woman next door leans over to our ear and whispers: ‘I had an affair with one of these MPs.’
WHERE?: BFI
WHEN: 25/7
‘It was the best piece of writing I’d ever read,’ remembers Sir John Hurt reflecting on TV’s The Naked Civil Servant (pictured above) after a showing at the BFI.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: 23/7 runs to 13/8
It’s the news every partner of a theatre lover dreads: the tickets you bought eight months earlier to celebrate a birthday are no longer valid. And you find out that birthday morning. By email.
Super is our album of the year so far and the Boys’ only 2016 UK dates are during their four-date Inner Sanctum residency at the Royal Opera House. We saw Rufus Wainwright there a while back and it’s a venue Neil and Chris were born to play. Tickets have sold out but we’d check here for returns.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Garrick Theatre
WHEN: Last night 16/1
At the end of a week where the nation mourned the loss of 69-year-olds David Bowie and Alan Rickman, it’s comforting to see Dame Judi Dench up on stage at 82.
The premiere of Suede’s new album and film at Camden’s Roundhouse in November made our gig of the year shortlist (winners announced 3/1/16) and on 22/1/16 the band releases ambitious seventh album Night Thoughts. Like Kids is a beautiful (ones), in-the-face reminder for those who’ve not been keeping up.
