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A Scott Alan song cycle promises much but The Distance You Have Come doesn't quite deliver at the Cockpit Theatre, despite its excellent cast.
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes an adaptation of Company that subtly but definitively realigns it for a contemporary audience and makes you wonder how you could ever go back to the origin…
A youthful and enthusiastic Much Ado About Nothing from Exploding Whale in the Katzpace Studio Theatre in London Bridge.
Too often, the term 'play with songs' is abused by marketing types to avoid using the word musical in all its apparent divisiveness. So what a blessed relief to find that Lizzie Nunnery's To…
After a scorching run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance makes a well-deserved transfer into the West End.
A two-hander full of game-playing, Parents' Evening is an intriguing new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre.
I'm Not Running is David Hare's 17th new play to be presented at the National Theatre but for a playwright known for espousing the state of the nation in his work, there's a frustrating vagu…
Adaptor/director Ross McGregor turning to Bram Stoker's classic Dracula makes sense, not least as it offers ample opportunity for Arrows & Traps to refresh its rather dustily antiquated…
Marcus Stevens and Oran Eldor's Mythic may have a rather unassuming demeanour by comparison, but it proves to be something of a gently Olympian success from director/choreographer Sarah O'Gl…
Such pleasure in watching Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins onstage plus The Height of the Storm at the Wyndham's Theatre is great for post-show reconstruction of this deconstructed story.
This regional UK premiere of Once the musical should see you falling slowly towards Queen's Theatre Hornchurch in order to book your tickets.
Beginning with a burst of confetti and ending in a sombre drop of petals, Pinter One is the far darker side of Pinter at the Pinter“They don’t like you either, my darling”
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The Broadway @ The Leicester Square brand is one which surfaces infrequently but always pays rich rewards when it does. Having attracted Patti LuPone, then Audra McDonald and John Barrowman …
My Top 10 'Losing My Mind' post has been one of the most popular on the site, so I thought I would repeat the exercise with what is arguably Company's most iconic song 'Being Alive'.
Impeccably acted and insightfully staged, Pinter Two a most effective double bill and a promising start to a season I may yet fall for more completely.
Released by SimG Records, the cast recording for the National Youth Music Theatre's Imaginary is just a lovely thing indeed.
Sundays are obviously the right time to catch improv companies in London and when their work is this good, why wouldn't you indulge?
You ignore what Ionesco has to teach us in The Lesson at your peril " the Hope Theatre is onto another winner here with a strong in-house production.
The oft-misquoted George Santayana once said "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and taking a glance at Nick Dear's Hogarth's Progress, you can't help but feel it…
Or Cleopatra and Antony as it turns out. Ralph Fiennes is plenty good in Simon Godwin's modern-dress production of Antony & Cleopatra for the National Theatre, but Sophie Okonedo is sit…
I liked 42nd Street when I saw it last year but I can't say that I truly loved it, it felt a 24-carat production of a gold-plated show. But upon revisiting, to celebrate Bonnie Langford's ar…
Some of the beauty of Flowers for Mrs Harris gets lost at Chichester Festival Theatre but it remains a striking new musical
“It’s a work of art… something not real, made t…
One woman, her drums and a whole lotta rage against the patriarchy, Hear Me Howl is a defiant roar at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
Two new music releases " Renée Fleming tackles Broadway classics in style, and The Quentin Dentin Show releases its cast recording
Produced by Aria Entertainment at the Southwark Playhouse in conjunction with their From Page To Stage Festival celebrating new musical theatre, this European premiere of Unexpected Joy is s…
