George Ezra, London Palladium, review: a joyous singalong that was impossible to resist

George Ezra stepped onto the stage at the London Palladium, grinning like the cat who got the cream. The breezy pop singer-songwriter revealed it had been three…

Sophie Ellis-Bextor delivers an unabashedly feelgood echo of lockdown (yes, really)

There was curiously little difference in energy levels between Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s performances in her kitchen to her phone screen during lockdown, and her performance to a packed-out…

The Diary of a CEO Live, London Palladium, review: the most bonkers night I have spent in the theatre

Is Steven Bartlett starting a new religion? I’m genuinely left wondering after experiencing his extraordinarily grandiose stage show, in which the entrepreneur and youngest-ever Dragon on Dragon’s…

Pantoland, review: variety theatre that’s high on smut and low on variety

“You wonder why they let the children in,” says Julian Clary with characteristic piquant weariness during this year’s kitschy glitzy extravaganza after firing off yet another arrow…