Review: Dead Royal,  Ovalhouse

Review: Dead Royal, Ovalhouse

Chris Ioan Roberts’ Dead Royal intertwines the stories of Wallis Simpson and Diana Spencer. Roberts plays these two women who never quite made it to the throne despite behaving like a petulant old queen and an empty-headed young one. We sent Johnny Fox and David...
The Old Broad Way: Liliane Montevecchi, Crazy Coqs

The Old Broad Way: Liliane Montevecchi, Crazy Coqs

It’s not often you get to spend the night with someone who danced with Fred Astaire, drank with Dean Martin and did who-knows-what with Elvis. It’s been eleven years since Liliane Montevecchi played London. Then she enthralled Pizza on the Park, now it’s Crazy Coqs...
Hart to Hart: The Desperate Divas, St James’s Studio

Hart to Hart: The Desperate Divas, St James’s Studio

If I’ve been to one compilation evening where a range of theatrical types repackage show tunes on the theme of “love, sex and relationships”, I’ve been to a hundred but the credentials of the two killer-diller headliners now trading as The Desperate Divas...