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Horrible Christmas Live on Stage at Alexandra Palace Theatre

Dec 17, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Mary Beer

The Horrible Histories franchise can almost do no wrong in my (and my children’s) estimation. We have found every stage (plus a Thames riverboat cruise) adaptation pleasing in its just-right gross-out juvenile humour mixed with lashings of proper history. Given my adoration of the brand, it’s probably worth acknowledging that my expectations are high when offered the opportunity to attend anything to do with it.
White Christmas - The Mill at Sonning | Review

Dec 8, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | John Groves

Based on Irving Berlin’s 1954 movie musical, White Christmas is a feel-good, sentimental show that makes for ideal Yule Tide entertainment, especially after one of The Mill at Sonning’s delicious two-course Christmas meals (much more than turkey!), included in the ticket price.
The Snowman | Birmingham Repertory Theatre | Sadler's Wells

Dec 1, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Mary Beer

Birmingham Rep’s The Snowman returns again after nearly three decades of performances and, based on ticket sales so far, it has come to occupy a place in the Christmas canon. Without question, the show’s aerial acts that accompany the famous choral rendition of Howard Blake’s “Walking in the Air” (from Dianne Jackson’s 1982 animated film adaption of Raymond Briggs’ seminal picture book) is thrilling.
Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre | Review

Oct 17, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | John OBrien |John Obrien

Stunning, shocking, spellbinding – this retelling of the Oedipus myth by Robert Icke has must-see written all over it. With two of our best actors Mark Strong (his portrayal of Oedipus is magisterial) and Lesley Manville (her Jocasta is superbly realised) on stage together the show has a head start. But it’s so much more than that. Robert Icke is the writer and director. He is, as it were, the controlling mind. And in him, we are in safe hands.
Review of The Whistling - The Mill at Sonning

Oct 6, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | John Groves

I usually find that ‘ghost’ stories do not work on stage and have sat through Henry James’ “Turn of the Screw” and this very week “Dracula”, finding them soporific experiences! But Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel’s adaptation of Rebecca Netley’s 2021 novel The Whistling is a different matter! For a start, there is Diego Pitarch’s ever-moving set depicting an imaginary Scottish island – but not as you would expect! For example, the construction of the boat in Act Two is not only very simple it...
Bedroom Farce - The Mill at Sonning is 'Highly recommended...'

Aug 11, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | John Groves

Alan Ayckbourn’s ninetieth play will receive its first production at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough in a few weeks. I am old enough to have seen nearly all of them, but my favourite is perhaps Bedroom Farce which Sally Hughes’ Mill at Sonning is reviving in a stylish production by Robin Herford, who worked with Ayckbourn at Scarborough from 1976 and who has appeared, as an actor, in more Ayckbourn plays directed by the playwright, than anyone else.
Fiddler on the Roof - Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Aug 7, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | John OBrien |John Obrien

Exhilarating, effervescent and enthralling doesn’t even come close to describing my feelings on watching Jordan Fein’s revival of this musical classic in its sixtieth anniversary year. First off there’s no roof at the Open Air Theatre. This works to put us the audience in a position of vulnerability. It’s as if we could become homeless or not have a roof over our heads. Or maybe lose our homes at a moment’s notice.
The Count of Monte Cristo - Brighton Open Air Theatre | Review

Jul 12, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Alan Fitter

There are a couple of ways you can approach classical literature when adapting it for the stage. You can play it straight like the recent production of Sherlock Holmes – The Valley of Fear which can be a little boring and po-faced or you can attack it and deconstruct it like that hardy perennial The Thirty Nine Steps which seems to be forever on tour and is great fun.
Wet Feet at the Union Theatre | Review

Jun 21, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Chris Omaweng

It’s a nice enough story, and it’s good to know that there are people out there who genuinely look out for one another. Nathan (Matthew Edgar) has a private room in a sauna. He goes outside to smoke a cigarette, and on his return, Franko (Michael Neri) has taken up residence. They are, at least at face value, markedly different – Nathan is self-confident while the older Franko is still wrestling with his personal identity, largely because of his upbringing in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Between Riverside and Crazy at Hampstead Theatre

May 24, 2024 | lastminutetheatretickets.com | Mary Beer

I was lucky enough to see the original off-Broadway production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ two-act drama at the Atlantic Theatre exactly a decade ago, just before it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Michael Longhurst’s revival finally brings it to London. On Hampstead Theatre’s main stage, this production feels much bigger as an act of spectacle – and certainly design scale – than the world premiere.