Review: I Can’t Sing!, London Palladium
So doctor-turned-comedian Harry Hill has decided to write a musical based not-at-all loosely on industry beast Simon Cowell’s The X Factor – and my oh my, wha...
Samuel Sims
Review: Grimm Tales, Shoreditch Town Hall
I'm always apprehensive walking into an immersive theatre piece, imagining something along the lines of the London Dungeons where the actors jump out and touc...
Review: Ghosts Stories, Arts Theatre
Are you ready to be so ferociously scared that you've no choice but to shriek like a little girl at regular intervals and maybe dribble a teensy bit? Ghost St...
Review: Faster, Higher, Stronger, Straighter, Dominion Studio
I unfortunately missed Damien Tracey’s Warde Street, though the excellent reviews he gathered certainly forced me to take notice. Faster, Higher, Stronger, Stra...
Review: Duchess of Malfi, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
What an exciting experience it is to bear witness to the first production housed in the new, indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe, which op...
Review: How The Whale Became (and Other Tales), Royal Opera House
One might wonder whether creating an opera for very young children is a good idea. It can be hard to follow at the best of times, even with surtitles, and k...
Samuel Sims
Managing Director
Sam is a freelance writer with work published in Vice, the ipaper and The Stage, among others. He hails from Hull, 2017's City of Culture so you probably won't understand a word he says.