878 stories by "Ian Foster"
Produced by the ever-excellent Proud Haddock, Square Rounds an adroit choice for the centenary of the last year of the First World War.
With the recent imprisonment of two Reuters journalists " U Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo " for 'violating a state secrets act' in Myanmar, Guy Slater's new play Eastern Star gains the kind of uns…
Short and sharply observed, impeccably sung and filled with irrepressible spirit, this is precisely the kind of work that advances the form of musical theatre for contemporary audiences.
Far from providing a straight-up biopic, Michael Oakley's production of Alice Allemano's play About Leo is something much more interesting.
Based on Elchin's play Citizens of Hell, Laurence Mark Wythe (music and lyrics) and Timothy Knapman's (book and lyrics) musical adaptation Midnight is so very good at translating the eerie s…
Mike Leigh's 1977 play Abigail's Party is sure to be considered a British classic. And as it is set in Romford, it makes great sense for Douglas Rintoul to stage it at the Queen's Theatre Ho…
Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre is a pretty damn fine piece of writing by US playwright Clare Barron, and a damn fine piece of theatre directed by Bijan Sheibani.
Kaite O'Reilly's And Suddenly I Disappear " The Singapore/UK 'd' Monologues (the first multilingual, intercultural, deaf and disability-led theatre project created between the UK and Singapo…
The notion that Michael Fentiman's The Importance of Being Earnest has ruffled a few feathers by daring to do something different, plus the kind of casting that I could never resist, meant t…
It's a different way to experience a West End musical and I'm not too sure that many others would suit the singalong treatment in a similar manner, so why not give your vocal cords a treat.
What is a national theatre for? You'd be forgiven for answering 'complaining about' given the amount of sniping regularly aimed at the institution. But with the launch of Public Acts, the Na…
Rightfully tough to take in its exploration of mental illness, Meghan Tyler’s Medicine impresses at the Hope Theatre
“You taught me the wrong things”
It’s a re…
The National Youth Music Theatre does a mighty fine job of eerily atmospheric new musical The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at The Other Palace.
Katherine Parkinson is simply spectacular as Judy, a vision in froufy frocks and pin-up hair, a woman who has entirely reinvented herself, right down to the way she holds herself.
In some ways, Allelujah! is perfectly symptomatic of the problem I have with the Bridge Theatre. Does London really need any new theatres, no matter how much people think they want interval …
Out of the Forest Theatre's contribution to the genre comes in the form of Bury the Hatchet, self-described as a "true crime podcast meets bluegrass musical" and all sorts of fun with it.
And as an absurdist drama, Exit the King suggests a bit of different thinking. On the face of it, it's a simple enough tale " a man is told he only has a day left to live and struggles to de…
You can never have too much charity it would seem, and as Rebecca Trehearn prepares to take on the role of Charity Hope Valentine in Nottingham next month, Gemma Sutton tackles it here at th…
Come mid-January, the Strand will look a fair bit different for theatregoers as both Kinky Boots and Dreamgirls have posted advance closing notices, leaving the Adelphi and the Savoy respect…
I was lucky enough to see an early screening of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again last week and I thought it was fricking fantastic.
As strong as the cast is (Abraham Popoola and Siobhán McSweeney stand out), the hyperactive knowing style in which they deliver Pity also grates.
For all the weight of the subject, The White Rose is engagingly and captivatingly staged, losing none of the visual inventiveness that has characterised so much of Arrows & Traps' previ…
The prospect of a Much Ado About Nothing drenched in 1950s Americana was one that piqued my interest, even if the well-realised shiny set design sits a little incongruously among the Roman r…
Almost impossibly tender and true, Ben Weatherill's Jellyfish is a minor-key masterpiece at the Bush Theatre.
The Lehman Trilogy is a tale of boom to bust: Stefano Massini's epic play, adaptedby Ben Power, takes a generational viewpoint to move us through 170 years of American history and three gene…
