With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
Whether or not divine intervention is involved, Sister Act is a wimple-wibbling, habit-forming triumph... more | Add your review
Calendar Girls is a chance to enjoy displays of prudery, coyness and vulgarity, a mixed cocktail of character-traits that remains forever English... more | Add your review
London has never played host to a musical pitched on a higher level of gayness and camp comedy than this ingenious adaptation of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert... more | Add your review
Thriller Live is a concert performance by a number of “lead vocalists” and astoundingly agile dancers rather than a musical... more | Add your review
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What kept the first-nighters teetering on the verge of delighted hysteria throughout the almost £5 million extravaganza that is Oliver!?. .. more | Add your review
Nicholas de Jongh was enchanted by Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel; a bitter-sweet musical fantasy about missed life-chances... more | Add your review
La Clique, a cool circus and burlesque hybrid, has been a festival hit around the world and it finally debuts in London at the Hippodrome... more | Add your review
Broadway triumph Jersey Boys is well-written and a refreshing change from usual rock 'n' roll tribute musicals... more | Add your review
Hairspray, a musical about sex, love and civil rights, sends the rare, sweet smell of success wafting through the Shaftesbury, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
After Connie Fisher, her successor in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Sound of Music, Summer Strallen, comes as something of an anti-climax, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
The craze for turning the public into a nation of casting directors has not worked with Grease. Is it not high time producers found real stars for musicals again, asks Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
This affectionate adult spoof of Sesame Street is a one-joke show. Unlike the upbeat, educational characters of the TV series, Avenue Q's puppets tell racist jokes, screw around and download porn... more | Add your review
The musical version of Dirty Dancing has little of the film's pelvic-thrust dancing but offers something distinct and more intimate than the celluloid experience, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
Even in our age of civil partnerships, Jerry Herman's farcical musical comedy La Cage aux Folles wrestles alluringly with a dilemma that could induce shudders of gay anxiety today... more | Add your review
Billy Elliot The Musical is just irresistible. It catches you in its fervent grasp, and pins you down with all the artfulness of a vintage seducer, right to the misguided, sentimental finale... more | Add your review
The 39 Steps played for laughs? It doesn't take much tweaking and this production is full of fun, but it is hard to avoid the feeling that it should be in Edinburgh rather than London at the... more | Add your review
It is a miracle to some, an awful aberration to others. But We Will Rock You is a West End success... more | Add your review
Disney's stage version of The Lion King bursts into life in a blaze of glory, casting a spell on the Lyceum... more | Add your review
Opinion is divided as to whether Mamma Mia! can turn hit Abba songs into an entertaining musical... more | Add your review
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