Little Lark of London

Exploring the cultural world of London, one blog post at a time!

  • REVIEW – TommyInnit: The Survival Tour ⭐⭐⭐

    “Tom, what the hell is this show?” After a debut stage show in 2022 and shows in both 2023 and 2024, Tom Simons, known to his millions of fans on the Internet as “TommyInnit,”  is bringing a mix of stand-up and stage show around the world. TommyInnit: The Survival Tour is Simons’s “first ever comedy…

  • REVIEW: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Unexpected? Yes, yes it was.” Showstopper! The Improvised Musical begins with a phone ringing, a call from a producer asking for updates on the next musical our writer (Dylan Emery) has come up with. As he has yet to come up with anything, Emery asks the audience for help, claiming that they’re “musical theatre experts”…

  • REVIEW: Riss Obolensky: Healing King Herod ⭐⭐

    “This is the path to self-forgiveness” Have you ever wondered what it would be like if a tyrannical king from the Bible ran a pyramid scheme in the 21st century? Wonder no longer, as Riss Obolensky: Healing King Herod is here to answer that particular question. For those unfamiliar with King Herod, he was the…

  • INTERVIEW: Kristin Key on Lesbian Army Tour

    “My show is about using joy as an act of resistance because it’s something that can never be taken away” Kristin Key, an American comedian who has gained a large following through social media, will be bringing her Lesbian Army Tour to London this April. With a career in comedy spanning over twenty decades, Key…

  • REVIEW: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors ⭐⭐⭐

    “It is one of the strangest stories ever told” What happens when you mix together a Gothic novel, a pantomime and Monty Python, with a splash of RuPaul’s Drag Race? You get Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. The show, written by Gordon Greenberg (who also directs) and Steve Rosen, follows the general plot of Bram…

  • REVIEW: Clueless the Musical ⭐⭐⭐

    “Okay, I know what you’re thinking . . .” Walking into the Trafalgar Theatre for Clueless the Musical, audience members are greeted with a fire playlist that brings one straight back into the 1990s, with boy bands, girl bands and pop-rock blasting through the speakers. It makes perfect sense for a musical based on a…

  • REVIEW: Birdsong, Alexandra Palace ⭐⭐⭐

    “I’m sure we all have our stories” “I’m sure we all have our stories” Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff, Birdsong is the stage version of Sebastian Faulks’s epic World War I novel of the same name, which follows Stephen Wraysford (played on stage by James Elder), whose life we see before, during and after the war.…

  • REVIEW: Richard II at The Bridge Theatre ⭐⭐⭐

    “Be ruled by me” Richard II marks the return of Nicholas Hytner directing Shakespeare at the Bridge Theatre, this time with Jonathan Bailey taking on the role of the titular king in the tragic history play. This particular production brings Shakespeare’s work into the modern world, with an atmosphere that I would describe as a…

  • REVIEW: Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a fan of the works of Jane Austen, must be in want of a new adaptation. Since its first publication in 1813 there have been hundreds – if not thousands – of adaptations of Pride & Prejudice. From the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film to the Lizzie…

  • INTERVIEW: Charlie Ives on Hold On To Your Butts

    “I get the absolute best of all worlds because I’m in the show, but I also get to watch the entire show from the side and be part audience, part performer.” After a successful run at the Arcola Theatre, Hold On To Your Butts is now roaring across the UK, including a week at the…