Off-West End & Fringe

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 14th August 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell “…MAMA WILL PROVIDE!..” The British Theatre Academy has chosen recent Tony Award-winning Once on This Island as their premier production for their summer season. Does this show build on their run of successes at the Southwark Playhouse? Once on This Island, which Continue Reading

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 10th August 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell “…Some Kind of Paradise…” Max Vernon’s smash-hit musical, The View UpStairs, makes it’s way to London after a Off-Broadway run in 2017. The View UpStairs is inspired by the true story of a 1973 arson attack in New Orleans. It was the Continue Reading

⭐⭐⭐ 17th July 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell “… It will all fade away but you…” The Bridges of Madison County finally comes to the UK, the musical adaptation of the best-selling novel by Robert James Waller and film that starred Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood, after a brief Broadway Continue Reading

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 8th June 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell “…God, that’s brilliant” Operation Mincemeat is based on the unbelievable true story of the covert mission that helped win World War II. A group of secret agents hatch a plan to trick the Nazis with fake secret plans and a corpse. What could Continue Reading

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5th June 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an unusual choice for a musical adaptation but I’m so glad the creators of this show thought to do it, otherwise we would of been deprived of one of the best British musicals in years. Continue Reading

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4th June 2019 Review by Shaun Tossell It has taken 17 years for Amour to make the journey from Broadway to London but has it been worth the wait? The UK debut professional production of Amour, from famed French composer Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), finds a home Continue Reading