After a sold-out run
at Southwark Playhouse last year, Luke Sheppard's UK premiere of
In The
Heights was widely rumoured for a transfer. It's taken nearly 18 months to
happen, but the timing may be fortuitous - as a London audience eagerly awaits the
latest Broadway smash
Hamilton to make it across the pond, Lin-Manuel
Miranda's earlier show is an exciting alternative, and as the limited run has already
announced an extension it seems to be doing well in its new home. That home is the
King's Cross Theatre, a disused platform of the train station, converted specially
to house an adaptation of
The Railway Children. So the show has been restaged
to suit a larger, traverse stage, but Drew McOnie's memorably energetic choreography
has settled in well, with a lot of the original cast also returning.
