Review: Mamma Mia!

Te Aua­ha’s Musi­cal The­atre cohort for 2023 is bring­ing Mam­ma Mia! to our shores this Sep­tem­ber, and we are all bet­ter for it. A spell­bind­ing, fab­u­lous ver­sion of Cather­ine Johnson/ABBA’s juke­box musi­cal knocked my absolute socks off last night, and I’m seri­ous­ly con­sid­er­ing going back to see it again. You might have seen the 2008 […]

Review: Soho Cinders

Reviewed by Talia Carlisle The set of Soho Cin­ders is a sim­ple train sta­tion in Lon­don, but the sto­ry, design and per­for­mances are far from sim­ple. A saucy queer rewrite of Cin­derel­la, Soho Cin­ders tells us the sto­ry of Rob­bie (Chris McMil­lan), who’s caught between sug­ar dad­dy Lord Belling­ham (Stan­ford Reynolds) and Lon­don May­oral Can­di­date James Prince (Michael Steb­bings). […]

Phantom of the Opera — a Magical Musical

There’s noth­ing like a show, and Phan­tom of the Opera is cer­tain­ly one of those. It’s the sec­ond longest run­ning musi­cal in the world so its a bit of a big deal for Welling­ton Musi­cal The­atre to land a sea­son here at the St James. I’ve been lucky enough to see the pro­duc­tion a few […]

Review: [title of show] take two.

I realise Kris has already giv­en a review of [title of show] but I fig­ure I may as well throw my thoughts into the ring. There’s no such thing as too many voic­es on the inter­net right? This review con­sists the one-two punch of a guest review from my part­ner Lau­ra, fol­lowed by my take […]