Front Row Frankie

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  • HAMZA YASSIN: My Life Behind the Lens, May 2026

    Strictly’s Janette & Aljaž return in monochrome in what is overall a more crowd-pleasing tour, with a hit song list and fabulous live music from Tom Seals and his band.

  • Carrie Hope Fletcher, Love Letters Review, September 2024

    ★★★☆☆ A tribute to the most obscure songs in modern musical theatre, but sung beautifully. It was the longest merchandise queue I’d ever seen! Hoards of Carrie-esque young women with their symbolic tattoos, librarian-style outfits and entitled countenance, shoving past us non-conformists to get their £55 CHF branded hoodies. In their eyes, Carrie could do…

  • A Fistful of Clary – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury April 2024

    Clary literally sparkles in this Western-inspired romp that makes a beeline for the heterosexual, over-50s husbands in the audience. ★★★★☆

  • Candace Bushnell: Sex & the City Review – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury – Feb 2024

    The set was appealing enough. Notice the steps down from both sides of the stage – I was rather hoping that Bushnell may coerce a heterosexual man onto the stage to try on some of the tantalisingly spotlit stilettos. Alas, aside from some quiz style ‘real or not real’ shoutouts from the audience about iconic…