Having grown up in a shoe making town with my parent’s house overshadowed by a huge shoe factory that employed hundreds of people, I know about the demise of the British shoe making industry well and have long been a Read More …
I have joked about my lack of dance knowledge on Theatre South East before so when I was invited with the TheatreBloggers to see a group of Street Dancers from Brazil perform at the Royal Festival Hall I did wonder Read More …
Generally I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I do like a good comedy. As a result I am familiar with the work of Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras) and Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey), when I heard that Read More …
I saw Bend it like Beckham at the Phoenix theatre early in it’s previews therefore I have been sitting on this review for a while, partly because it is bad form to publish a review before press night also because Read More …
This review of The 39 Steps was written by Sammi O’Neill and was commissioned for www.lastminutetheatretickets.com You can read the full review here. The 39 Steps | Criterion Theatre | Review
In anticipation of seeing ‘And Then There Were None’ at the Hawth in Crawley this week it occurred to me that I do not recall ever seeing an Agatha Christie play on stage so I trotted off to the St. Read More …
When my sons were young we spent hours on the platform of the Bluebell Railway, watching the magnificent steam engines pull in and out of Sheffield Park Station. Now the Bluebell has extended it’s line, I am blessed that the Read More …
Noël Coward supposedly wrote the play Hay Fever in three days during 1924. Since then according to the programme notes, it has seldom been off stage somewhere in the world. This is quite a feat to achieve in over 90 Read More …
I had a personal reason to be excited about seeing Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Harvey last night at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Thirty *cough*years ago it was the first play I was cast in (I played Nurse Ruth Read More …
Last night I accompanied a good friend of mine Rebecca Felgate to the Trafalgar Studios to see Jagged Edge‘s production of August Strindberg‘s The Father. The Father | Trafalgar Studios I had not heard anything about this play before and Read More …