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Review of Sugarcoat at Southwark Playhouse Borough - Bold, progressive, but lacks depth

Rated 🍯🍯 Sugarcoat is an amusing musical, but the bee was left wanting when it came to specifics The show tries to portray new and...

Review of The Great British Bakeoff Musical at Noël Coward Theatre - A half-baked hotchpotch

Rated 🍯🍯 It is ironic that a musical tribute to a TV series about decadent desserts and sweet treats should turn out to be so tasteless...

Review of The Unfriend at Criterion Theatre - Stellar cast performances do not rescue banal writing

Rated 🍯🍯 On a cruise holiday, an English couple — Peter and Debra — meets an annoyingly talkative middle-aged American woman called...

Review of Allegiance at Charing Cross Theatre - Bombastic musical does little justice to its cause

Rated 🍯🍯 "A Jap's a Jap" In the aftermath of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, fearing a...

Review of Oklahoma! at The Young Vic - Reinvention ruins original for uninitiated

Rated 🍯🍯 It is impossible to enjoy the Young Vic’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! if one has not been exposed...

Review - A Doll’s House Part 2 - Lacks novelty and depth

Rated 🍯🍯 If the bee had to pick its least favourite play among everything it has ever watched in London, sorry folks, but this one...