Faygele
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Marylebone Theatre, London
Cast: Ilan Galkoff, Ben Caplan, Clara Francis, Andrew Paul and Yiftach Mizrahi

At 13, Ari Freed’s world is upended in an instant - when, at his Bar Mitzvah celebration, his father strikes him down with a single word: Faygele. The sting fractures his already delicate sense of self, forcing him into a battle he never asked for. Faygele is a story of survival in the space  between faith and identity, love and duty, past and future - unraveling the complexities of Ari’s adolescence and the relationships that shape him.

Bat Out of Hell
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Cast: Luke Street, Harriet Richardson-Cockerline, Katie Tonkinson, Rob Fowler, Georgia Iudica-Davis, Ryan Carter, Carla Bertran and Carly Burns

The iconic music of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf will once again shake the stage, delivering an electrifying journey that will ignite your love for rock like never before. This heart-pounding experience, with a powerhouse eight-piece live band on stage, delivers a new production with sprawling multi-level platforms to transport you from Raven’s bedroom to the underground world of the Lost in a visual feast that pushes the boundaries of live theatre.

Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree
Venue: Young Vic, London
Cast: Tim Crouch and Jessie Buckley 

Conversations After Sex
Rating: ★★★
Venue: Park90 Theatre, London
Cast: Olivia Lindsay, Julian Moore-Cook and Jo Herbert

Unexpected encounters. Anonymous strangers in hotel rooms. Unguarded intimacy. When a woman in possession of her own sexuality meets a carousel of different men, she finds herself uncovering more than she expected. Grief. Loneliness. Promiscuity. Connection. It’s all here, in this startling play from award-winning writer Mark O’Halloran.

The next interview in our stagey chat series is with Guillaume Pigé. Guillaume is the Founder and Artistic Director of Theatre Re, and we sat down to discuss two of their current shows, Bluebelle and BIRTH. 

The Great Gatsby Musical
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: London Coliseum
Cast: Jamie Muscato, Frances Mayli McCann, Corbin Bleu, Amber Davies, Joel Montague, John Owen-Jones, Jon Robyns and Rachel Tucker

The Great Gatsby is a musical based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name. It tells the tale of the lonely and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, who hosts elaborate parties at his Long Island mansion. However, instead of joining in, he pines after Daisy Buchanan, the woman he loved before he became the wealthy man everyone knew him as.

The Girl on the Train
Rating: ★★
Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Cast: Louisa Lytton, Daniel Burke, Zena Carswell, Samuel Collings, Natalie Dunne, Paul McEwan and Jason Merrells

Westway Sessions: Kerry Ellis
Rating: ★★★★
Venue: Vaudeville Theatre, London
Cast: Kerry Ellis and special guests

Four leading stars of the West End and Broadway will perform exclusive Westway Concerts at the Vaudeville Theatre: Lee Mead, Cassidy Janson, Kerry Ellis and Aimie Atkinson. The series opens with TV and West End star Lee Mead, who brings his brand-new show The Best of Me to the Vaudeville. Next up is Oliver Award winner Cassidy Janson (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, & Juliet), followed by Kerry Ellis (Wicked, We Will Rock You) with her much talked about show Queen of the West End. And finally, Aimie Atkinson (SIX, Pretty Woman) returns to the West End to perform songs from her new album as well as career defining hits.