View from the Cheap Seat

A one-night-only orchestral tribute to Jim Steinman delivers a cohesive and energetic evening, balancing his best-known hits with deeper cuts that rarely surface in live performance.

When Kinky Boots first stepped into the West End in 2015, it did so with swagger.

I rarely begin a review by singling out the creatives, but Paul Willis’s set design alone makes a compelling case for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding to transfer to the West End—and to contend for Olivier recognition.

In 1983 Roald Dahl reviewed Tony Clifton’s picture book God Cried about the 1982 Lebanon War.

There’s a trailer for an American version of Re-Animator The Musical that features a large cast, impressive songs and a heavy dose of blood and gore that makes it look like it’s a delight, at least if you’re fond of musical parodies of daft comedy horror…

George Takei proudly puts his name to this moving musical about the forced internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII isn’t an easy watch but it puts the heart and soul into a period of history rarely spoken about.

The cast of Six (Photo credit: Pamela Raith) A true home-grown sensation, Six has gone from strength to strength, with a Broadway run and Australian tour currently playing.

This review was written the morning after President Biden took to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to warn the half of the American electorate flirting with fascism and the age-old allure of white supremacist ideology, that this was anathema to the nebu…

After its debut in France in 2019 Jean-Paul Gaultier brings his fashion show cabaret to London.

Acclaimed screenwriter John Goldsmith brings his first play to Charing Cross Theatre this summer.