Issy Flower

A Tussle Between Writer and Director: 'The Crucible' Review ★★★✰✰ There is much to enjoy about Lyndsey Turner’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which has r […]

Fluffy If Formless: 'Winnie The Pooh The Musical' Review ★★★✰✰ What new is there to say about Winnie The Pooh? A.A. Milne’s indefatigable creation still has legs ov […]

Frothy, Funny and Full Of Joy: The Great British Bake Off Musical Review ★★★★✰ The Great British Bakeoff has been one of the great cultural phenomena of the last thirteen years—but […]

Thought-Provoking, Toothy and Twisty: 'Age Is A Feeling' Review ★★★★★ “Age is a feeling. You feel it.” So goes the mantra of Hayley McGee’s wildly successful solo show, […]

An Explosion of Melancholy, Joy and Menken: 'My Son's A Queer But What Can You Do?' Review ★★★★✰ Following acclaimed Turbine Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe and West-End runs, Rob Madge’s My Son’s A Que […]

Improvably good: 'Yes Queens! Improv' Review ★★★★✰ Improv has largely been seen as a male game for many years, driven by shows such as Whose Line Is I […]

Rebels and Revels That Soar: 'The Wing Scuffle Spectacular' Review ★★★★✰ On a dark January evening, Revel Puck Circus are here to bring magic with their show The Wing Scuf […]

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Any production of The Wind in The Willows naturally butts up against previous iterations: Kenneth Grahame’s beloved novel, the immensely popular West End musical, and one of the best children’s […]

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Set inside the beautiful gothic charms of Islington’s Union Chapel, Frederick Waxman’s Figure present a “historically informed” but wholly present rendering of requiems by Gabriel Faure and Marc-Antoine […]

If you’d told anyone in 2004 that Kiefer Sutherland, 80s heartthrob and star of the immensely popular 24, would not only record and release three country-rock albums but that these albums would be good, they m […]

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Newsrevue has been performing, with a rotating cast, for 43 years: and it shows. Its ropey old-fashioned format and pretentions to topicality become clear in the over-large Pleasance EICC space. Ev […]

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Four actors on stage and a pianist. Between them, they conjure the highs and lows of the performing arts: the snogs, the shrug-offs, the smiles, the sadness. Well-written, funny and exception […]

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As a comedy character, Peter Fleming is a one-off. The unholy union of a Doctor Who DVD extra and a Harry Enfield parody, old-school kids TV producer Fleming is here to take us through the history o […]

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A flexing hand. A captive audience. ‘Antigone, Interrupted’ is as obsessed as the Ancient Greeks with the power of the image and the power of the audience. In the process, some clarity is lost, and tho […]

When Up The Bracket was released 20 years ago, it heralded a new era of indie-pop and brought with it skinny jeans, messy breakups and the occasional posthumous whiff of ‘was that it?’. The Libertines were at the […]

Fifteen years is a long time in the pop world, and since Dirty Pretty Things initially disbanded in 2008, its members have reformed old groups, created new ones, toured up and down the country and won Oscars. The […]

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A chair. A deck of cards. The start of a night out. Sarah Milton’s self-scripted one-woman show ‘4’ explores the consequences of denying reality, sexuality and yourself, and whilst it falls neatly in […]

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In 1936, 27 boys and their teacher go up a mountain in the Black Forest. By that evening, five of the boys will be dead; the Hitler Youth will take the credit; their teacher will be exonerated; and nearl […]

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A rollicking look into Restoration comedy, Bang Average’s Dirty Corset is frequently filthy, funny and heartfelt. What it might sometimes lack in coherence or context it makes up for in the talents of […]

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For some it might seem as if everything has been said that needs to be said about dictatorship: its methods, its consequences, its real-life significance. But in Project Dictator, clowning double-ac […]