Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse 5*****

Reine Beau Anderson Dudley and her brilliant backing band deliver an amazing performance of the music of Amy Winehouse. Reine has clearly studied this talented artist well, absolutely capturing Amy’s deep contralto expressive vocals throughout her performance. She leads the … Read More

Romeo & Juliet: One-Man Musical 2**

This musical has been written using the original lines from every scene of Shakespeares’s classic, Romeo and Juliet.  As part of the ticket price, you get a colourful designed programme with the words from each Act and Scene included in … Read More

Ali Brice: Bin Wondering 4****

This show’s brilliant. It’s random and inane throughout, and poignant and heartbreaking for the duration of a mayonnaise metaphor; it hold up flaws simply in order to air them, and then breaks the tension with the most unexpected and perfect … Read More

Science Idiot 3.5***

This show in one word: subversive. Ms Hunter starts the show with the usual format: tell something personal so the audience can relate, make yourself vulnerable so they’ll like you, and chat to the audience so you’re approachable rather than … Read More

Richard Fry: O Starry Night 4.5****

Stories about people going through difficult and awful things shouldn’t result in an entertaining, informative and above all, uplifting show, but Richard Fry pulls that feat off with aplomb.

This isn’t stand up in the laugh-after-every-few-sentences style. This is storytelling; … Read More

A Table Tennis Play – Walrus/Theatre Royal Plymouth – 4****

In a wonderfully bleak, vaulted venue, a table tennis table takes centre stage with a pit full of table tennis balls separating the audience from the stage. The setting is an old basement air raid shelter under a big house … Read More

Art Heist – Poltergeist – 4****

Three different burglars prepare to steal a painting from an art gallery, all for different reasons and all by adopting different methods of entry. Rosa is disguised as a chef and manages to gain access through the service entrance to … Read More

John Robins:- Hot Shame 4.5****

John Robins shared the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 with his ‘break-up show’ and he is back this year selling out big rooms and exhibiting all the skills and more with his 2018 offering Hot Shame. Robins classes himself as … Read More

Stewart Francis:- Into the Punset 4****

For more than twelve years Canadian funny man Stewart Francis has been retaking delighted audiences up and down the country with his oh so clever gags, puns and one-liners, but beware he is stopping at the end of the year. … Read More

Basil Brush’s Family Fun Show 4****

I remember Basil Brush from my childhood with Mr Derek and Mr Roy and the cheeky fox hasn’t changed a bit although he has a new side kick, Mr Martin, played by Martin Cable Reid who was a Britain’s Got … Read More