Little Lark of London

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

  • REVIEW – Ignacio Lopez: Señor Self-Destruct ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Freddy Krueger wouldn’t last five minutes in Newport” Ignacio Lopez: Señor Self-Destruct has quite the interesting description – comedian Lopez, self-identifying as “Spain’s Best Export™,” wants to destroy himself with the goal of creating a better version of him, which he hopes is “leaner, smarter” and “funnier.” The show begins with Lopez discussing his love…

  • REVIEW: Rocky Horror Show ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “I wanna go / To the late night, double feature, picture show” Ever since it first started in London in 1973, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O’Brien has taken the world by storm, with productions in cities around the world and a hit movie being released only two years after the show’s opening.…

  • REVIEW: The Great Gatsby ⭐⭐

    “You can’t repeat the past” 100 years after it was first published, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is making a splash in London, now as a musical at the London Coliseum. The work is narrated by Nick Carraway (Corbin Bleu) as he tells the story of his neighbour, the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby…

  • REVIEW – Kristin Key: Lesbian Army Tour ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Did you just make a teabag joke in London?” After performing around the world and online for years, Kristin Key has brought her new show, Lesbian Army Tour, to London. Audience members may be familiar with Key after seeing one of her many viral videos, which have garnered millions of views and gained her hundreds…

  • 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…