Review: La Soirée, Southbank Spiegeltent
Olivier-award winner show La Soirée returns to London for the festive season, amid Christmas shows and candle-lit concerts, proving to be the perfect alternativ...
Manuel Muñoz
Review: Madam Butterfly Returns, Landor Theatre
When Cio-Cio-San, also known as Butterfly, took her life the gory way at the end of G. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, her heartbreaking story seemed to have finish...
Review: Xanadu, Southwark Playhouse
We cannot deny Xanadu is a cult film, in a so-bad-it’s-good way. Career-ending for many, it was supposed to be the next Grease for Olivia Newton-John (and one o...
Review: Hamlet, Barbican
One of the biggest theatrical events of the year, Lyndsey Turner’s Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, has been the most talked-about production in London si...
Review: Utopia, Roundhouse
Filmmaker, writer and artist Penny Woolcock presents this massive art installation in the atmospheric space of the Roundhouse as part of the Bloomberg Summer pr...
Review: Annie Jr, Arts Theatre
Much-loved musical Annie is back in the West End for a short run at the Arts Theatre, in a very simple, minimalist production that is both naively charming and ...
Manuel Muñoz
Manuel is a London-based PhD researcher in Medieval History who loves the arts and is particularly drawn to theatre, musical theatre and opera. With a special interest in all technical aspects of stage productions, he reviews shows for his colleagues at work and posts them on his own blog, which is sad. Or maybe not.