Last updated on June 2nd, 2021Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the Girl with the Golden Pen. She tickled us with her sassy baddie, Villanelle, from ‘Killing Eve,’ and is currently co-writing the screenplay for the new Bond film, ‘No Time to Die.’ Last night, she thrilled the audience with the return of her one-woman show, Fleabag, at the... The post Fleabag Review (and in cinemas) appeared first on Diary of a Londoness ..read more

Last updated on February 19th, 2023Shirley Valentine probably needs no introduction. She’s 37 years old in the making, having begun her life as a play at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in 1986. She then hit stardom in that film with the enchanting Pauline Collins in 1989. Shirley Valentine’s latest incarnation, though, is with Sheridan... The post Review: Sheridan Smith in Shirley Valentine appeared first on Diary of a Londoness ..read more

Helen Hunt made a hilarious UK stage debut at the Old Vic Theatre in Eureka Day this week, a sharp comedy which comes with a trigger warning: it will make you laugh out loud – a lot. Eureka Day was written by Californian playwright, Jonathan Spector. It’s set in pre-pandemic USA in hip Berkeley, a... The post Review: Eureka Day at The Old Vic, London appeared first on Diary of a Londoness ..read more

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who’s the maddest, baddest of them all? This is the five-million dollar question you’ll be asking yourself when you leave the Ambassador’s Theatre after an evening with Mad House, a play by American playwright Theresa Rebeck which packs a very mighty punch and will leave you a little bruised and... The post Review: David Harbour and Bill Pullman in Mad House appeared first on Diary of a Londoness ..read more

My Fair Lady has galloped into the London Coliseum this May, and it’s a bloomin’ loverly production. It’s the first major West End revival of the show for 21 years and comes to us via The Lincoln Center Theater and Broadway. It’s brilliantly directed by Bartlett Sher with rising star Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle... The post Review: My Fair Lady – London Coliseum appeared first on Diary of a Londoness ..read more