4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (629+ words) West End Best Friend Review: THE TEMPEST, Golden Hinde It’s all aboard, or should that be all abard, the Golden Hinde along London’s South Bank for an intimate, 60-minute, abridged, site-specific re-staging of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Staged as part of…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (176+ words) Recognisable to millions as Dr Will Preston in Peak Practice, Simon Shepherd is returning to the world of theatre this month, starring in the tour of Royce Ryton's history-inspired thriller The Anastasia File. We had 60 seconds with Simon to find…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (266+ words) Benjamin O’Mahony as Shostakovich gives the appropriate level of ego while still allowing us to sympathise with his plight. His performance keeps the composer from becoming simply a historical figure. Nina, his wife, played by Jenna Augen, his biggest supporter…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (770+ words) westendbestfriend.co.uk Review: PRESENT LAUGHTER, Theatre Royal Bath It is extraordinary to realise that Noel Coward’s Present Laughter was first staged in the West End during World War II in 1942 and has been acclaimed as one of his finest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1496+ words) Another Edinburgh Fringe is now over, and after a very full few weeks of seeing as much theatre as humanly possible, it is time to attempt the rather impossible task of choosing my favourite shows of the festival. I tend…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (349+ words) West End Best Friend Gorka Marquez brings Strictly-style glitz as guest star in brand new Christmas show Strictly Come Dancing favourite Gorka Márquez will guest star in Xmas on the Dancefloor, a brand-new Christmas dance spectacular combining Strictly-style ballroom and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) Seething Lane, published by Moonflower Publishing Ltd, is the second novel to be written by Jack Jewers following his debut book The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, alongside his work as a filmmaker. This book is structured into three main…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (434+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: YOU AND ME (AND WHOEVER COMES NEXT), Old Lab at Summerhall Uplifting and funny, You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) is a show about care and how humans rely on one another. The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (148+ words) A powerful call to arms, Youth in Flames is set in 2019, when the government of China introduced extradition laws in Hong Kong. Through multimedia and a blaring soundscape, Mimi Martin performs her chilling one-woman show in Bunker One at the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (409+ words) West End Best Friend Fringe Review: BUGGERS, Upstairs at Pleasance Courtyard Buggers is a soaring, volatile piece of theatre. Charting the troubled relationship of artist Francis Bacon (Alistair Hall) and his lover and muse George Dyer (Peter Clements) in the…...