Tom Wells' Drip popped up briefly in the library at the Bush Theatre last year, played Edinburgh over the summer and returns to W12 in the studio where its idiosyncratic charms prove well su…
Natasha Barnes really impresses with debut album Real, a shining example of contemporary pop done well.
We celebrate the fact that Nine Night is the first play by a black British female playwright to make it into the West End, as Natasha Gordon's debut makes the move from the National's smalle…
I'm not sure who we apply to for these things but I really would like to see Norm Lewis return to the West End stage " I didn't catch him in Les Mis but I did get the briefest look at him at…
The first of three opportunities to see Austentatious at the Savoy Theatre in December in a hilariously scandalous affair indeed.
Chucking Michelle Visage into the cast of Everybody's Talking About James at the Apollo Theatre is actually a rather inspired move.
Alfie Boe's As Time Goes By makes for a hugely enjoyable listen, infused with passion and a thrilling musicality that should see it stuffed into many a stocking come 25 December.
Rebecca Frecknall's production of Summer & Smoke has lost none of its charge, mainly through retaining the electric chemistry between its leads " an exceptional Patsy Ferran as Alma and…
Tonderai Munyevu's The Moors at the Tara Theatre follows two African men on the hunt for Shakespeare and coming up hard against the realities for actors of colour.
I try out the new smart caption glasses while watching Hadestown at the National Theatre and am blown away both by the show and the frankly amazing technology.
Pinter Four serves up something of a difficult double bill at the Harold Pinter Theatre, but BrÃd Brennan and Janie Dee are there to help us through the dark times.
Matt Board and Reina Hardy's new musical Fanatical taps into the apparently unstoppable rise of comic-book culture, but takes a refreshingly uncynical slant on the subject.
Strong performances from Lucy Sheen and Flora Spencer-Longhurst make Jesse Briton's A Pupil an interesting watch at the Park Theatre.
Capturing something of the tragedy of solitary confinement, Gilded Butterflies is an evocative hour at the Hope Theatre.
There's a neat symmetry to the life of Brass the Musical thus far. Originally commissioned by the National Youth Music Theatre to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World…
It's sometimes a little difficult to take seriously how old everyone is meant to be in Romeo & Juliet but Erica Whyman's modern-day production for the RSC, playing in rep now at the Bar…
At Waterloo East Theatre, The Greater Game is a sobering reminder of the individual stories behind the statistics of our war dead, and a fitting tribute too.
Ear for eye, Debbie Tucker Green's new play for the Royal Court, is ferocious and uncompromising and challenging and quite often breath-taking.
It is still a shock to discover the history lesson that Daniel York Loh has in store for us in Forgotten é—忘 at the Arcola Theatre.
Despite a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack, this proves another disappointment of a Macbeth as the RSC starts is autumn residency at the Barbican.
The latest dementia play is Nessah Muthy's Sundowning, currently showing at the Tristan Bates Theatre and based as it is, in part at least, on Muthy's own family history, it is achingly done.
Probably best not to read this beforehand if you're planning to see Game of Thrones' star Maisie Williams in her stage debut in I and You at the Hampstead Theatre…
Ultimately, Stories might not necessarily be too profound or truly enlightening, but it does speak to the ways in which a plan for life can lead you most astray and I did find it entertainin…
There's nothing quite like being smacked around the head by the brilliance of a theatre company and that was my experience the first time I saw Out of the Forest Theatre with their striking …
A striking look at immigration and dementia, Jericho's Rose brings the loop pedal and no little invention to the Hope Theatre.