Bend It Like Beckham | Phoenix Theatre | Review

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 …

The Railway Children | King’s Cross Theatre | Review

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 …

Hayfever | Duke of York Theatre | Review

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 …

Harvey | Theatre Royal Haymarket | Review

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 …

The Father | Trafalgar Studios | Review

The Father Trafalgar Studios

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 …

Miss Saigon | Prince Edward Theatre | Review

There are several reasons why I have waited until now to see Miss Saigon. I saw it several times in the 1990’s and was very near the top of my list of favourite shows of all time so when it Read More …