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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a truly charming new musical – review

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We were recently afforded a sneak peek into the world of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: singer and songwriter Passenger, who has written the songs for this show, performed an intimate preview gig in London which we were fortunate enough to attend. As such, going into the theatre, we already had a sense of the songs we were about to hear, as well as a reasonable idea of the story. Given this, we were really quite surprised by just how invested we felt in these characters, and how impactful…

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Articles Culture News Originals Performance The Old Vic Theatre Tom Stoppard

Revival of Tom Stoppard’s epic masterpiece Arcadia is absolutely fascinating – review

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The late Sir Tom Stoppard – who passed away a few short months ago – has left an incredible legacy of works; his final play, 2020’s Leopoldstadt, picked up the Olivier Award for Best New Play (the Broadway transfer also won the Tony Award for Best Play). In amongst an extensive catalogue of plays, Arcadia is regarded by critics as his finest work, so we took the opportunity to check out The Old Vic’s revival over the weekend – especially after we’d been impressed with their 2024 revival of his…

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Ballad Lines is an engaging new folk musical full of great songs – review

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Ballad Lines has been a long time in the making – this week marks its London premiere, although the past decade has involved a whole series of workshops, concerts and public readings. Now it’s finally arrived, has it been worth the wait? We’re pleased to report that it’s really very good indeed. It all starts quite conventionally: we’re introduced to Sarah (Frances McNamee) who has just moved in with her partner Alix (Sydney Sainté) into an apartment in New York – well, we say it’s a conventional start; it wasn’t…

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Cirque du Soleil’s OVO dazzles and delights at the Royal Albert Hall – review

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Cirque du Soleil has now become an annual tradition we rather enjoy: this is the fifth January in a row that we’ve braved London’s miserable winter weather to venture out to the Royal Albert Hall for a night of circus spectacular. The renowned Quebecois circus troupe has been putting on shows for over 40 years now, and they have it down to a fine art: for 2026 we have OVO, an updated revival of their 2009 show. So what’s it all about? We doubt many people come to a show…

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Articles Broadway Cole Escola Culture Mason Alexander Park News Oh Mary! Originals Performance

West End debut of queer Broadway hit Oh, Mary! is an absolute hoot – review

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Cole Escola’s new play Oh, Mary! has been delighting audiences on Broadway for a couple of years now – picking up a pair of Tony Awards in the process – and we’re delighted that it has now opened here in London. A brilliantly irreverent – and not entirely historically accurate – look at the life and times of Mary Todd Lincoln, it’s now playing at the Trafalgar Theatre. We don’t want to say too much about the show’s narrative – part of the joy is not knowing what happens, as…

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Articles Culture Drag Kate Butch Kitty Scott-Claus Kyran Thrax LGBTQ+ Theatre News Originals Performance RuPaul's Drag Race UK Tayris Mongardi Theatre TuckShop

Drag Race UK queens star in chaotic drag panto Snow White at the Emerald Theatre – review

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The festive season is well and truly upon us, and once again, drag production company TuckShop have returned with a chaotic panto which is as camp as Christmas itself. Snow White is their fifth pantomime, so you may have caught one before, or perhaps one of their others shows, which include Gals Aloud, The Diana Mixtape and the Death Drop murder mysteries. Their shows usually feature a selection of queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – this year we have Kyran Thrax, Kitty Scott-Claus, Tayris Mongardi and Kate Butch. We…

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Daniel’s Husband is a moving evening of queer theatre – review

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Daniel’s Husband tells the story of couple Daniel (Joel Harper-Jackson) and Mitchell (Luke Fetherston), who appear to have a perfect life: a wonderful home, successful careers, good friends and a healthy relationship. There’s just one issue: Daniel really wants to get married, while Mitchell really doesn’t. We won’t give the game away, but a major event forces them to face the reality of the rights they do and don’t have as an unmarried gay couple. The cast is completed by Liza Sadovy playing Daniel’s mother Lydia; David Bedella as Mitchell’s…

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Articles Christmas Culture LGBTQ+ Theatre News Originals Pantomime Performance Theatre West End

Beauty and the Beast panto keeps the yuletide very gay indeed this festive season – review

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If you weren’t already aware that He’s Behind You! make queer, adults-only pantomime, the subtitle for this year’s show, Beauty and the Beast, is ‘A Horny Love Story’ – which would probably give the game away. Set in the (sadly) fictional Scottish town of Lickmanochers, which of course neighbours Suckmacoch, it is a loose retelling of the classic tale, which many will be familiar with from the 1991 Disney movie. Of course, there’s a fair amount of artistic licence in this adaptation, written by Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper. We’re…

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Revival of Top Hat falls flat despite some impressive choreography – review

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We’d been very much looking forward to Top Hat, which has arrived at London’s Southbank Centre this Christmas as part of a national tour. The original 2011 stage adaptation of the classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie swept the Oliver Awards, picking up Best New Musical; this revival, first produced earlier this year at the Chichester Festival Theatre, opened to rave reviews. It’s also directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall, who was responsible for the incredible choreography we saw in the dazzling revival of Anything Goes at…

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End draws David Eldridge’s trilogy to a satisfying conclusion at the National Theatre – review

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It’s taken us about eight years, but we have now finally completed David Eldridge’s trilogy of plays exploring love and relationships. Like its predecessors Beginning and Middle, End is a two-hander which plays out as a real-time conversation. The focus of Beginning was on two young lovers on the night they met at a house party, while in Middle we met two people in an established relationship which had begun to go south. The narrative of End – as you may already have guessed – looks at two people who…

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