Webborn and Finn's cracking new musical The Clockmaker's Daughter receives a delectable cast recording treatment that features the likes of Ramin Karimloo, Hannah Waddingham, Christine Allad…
Courtesy of choreographer Adam Haigh, there is some seriously impressive dance going on at the Union Theatre right now. You might expect some good moves from a musical Can-Can! but the full …
This Sell A Door tour of the excellent puppet musical Avenue Q shows just how well it is standing the test of time.
Ivo van Hove's take on All About Eve ticks all my boxes at the Noël Coward Theatre, great work from Gillian Anderson, Lily James and a stellar Monica Dolan.
Flying Rabbit Productions' Di & Viv & Rose at the White Bear Theatre is a smart production of a play that has endured well.
Any show that references Céline Dion's epic key change in 'All By Myself' is onto a winner, never mind featuring a lip-sync there of. So I was always going to be well-inclined towards Will …
If Taro is to be Arrows & Traps' final production, then it's a hell of a high note to go out on. Bringing together so much of what has made them an enjoyable and enlightening company to…
The delightfully daft The Noble Nine at the VAULT Festival asks what happens when people like The Famous Five grow up.
Velvet proves a powerful piece, investigating #MeToo from a gay perspective at the VAULT Festival.
I've been watching the Showstopper crew for as long as I've been blogging (the King's Head was a great venue for them), so it's a real treat to see them constantly move onwards and upwards.
Improv done well is one of the greatest pleasures I know, and Sorry's take on the form, which is inexplicably only playing at the VAULT Festival for a couple of dates, has to be some of the …
An impressive transfer sees one-woman show Songs for Nobodies move into the Ambassadors Theatre from a run last year at Wilton's Music Hall and it is a striking, if ultimately a little sligh…
Strong performances from Cate Blanchett and Stephen Dillane make the challenging When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other worth the effort at the National Theatre.
Great design work from Morgan Large and a strong lead performance from Kaisa Hammarlund make Violet an intriguing proposition at the Charing Cross Theatre.
it is pleasing to see that Ross McGregor's new play Gentleman Jack respects its subject enough to give a full picture of their life.
With less than a week to go before the 2019 VAULT Festival opens, I wade my way through the catalogue and come up with 20 shows I think you should catch " in their own words.
One of the benefits in producing such a wide-ranging festival as Pinter at the Pinter has been the flexibility in its programming, allowing for thematic evenings to emerge as opposed to a st…
Pinter Five sees Patrick Marber, someone who could call Harold Pinter a friend and colleague, take the directorial wheel as he presents a triple-bill of The Room, Victoria Station and Family…
So many of the recommendations for shows to see next year focus on the West End. And for sure, I'm excited to catch big ticket numbers like All About Eve, Come From Away and Waitress but I w…
The extraordinary Caroline or Change makes the leap into the West End at the Playhouse Theatre, with a titanic Sharon D Clarke at the helm.
Simon Russell Beale and Leo Bill shine in Joe Hill-Gibbins' perfectly reimagined The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida Theatre.
Inspired by Mark Ravenhill's realisation that some teachers retiring now would have been active when corporal punishment was outlawed in 1986, The Cane is his first new play for a goodly whi…
Fifty-four years is quite the wait for a sequel but the sweetness and charm with which Mary Poppins Returns lands on our screens makes it pretty much worth it.
Edgar Allan Poe via Anthony Neilson might not seem the typical recipe for your festive fare but The Tell-Tale Heart proves a gory and gothic delight. Marking Neilson's National Theatre debut…
I loved The Grinning Man in both its incarnations " from Bristol's Old Vic to the West End " and so I was most pleased to hear that it would be immortalised in vinyl, or whatever the digital…