The Rink is one of those musicals that history hasn't treated too kindly, despite a premiere that starred Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli but with Adam Lenson's expert hand at the tiller, thi…
Who do you instinctively believe " the accuser or the accused? Tim Cook's Adam & Eve does an intriguing job of subverting how we think such a drama might play out.
Of all of Sasha Regan's all-male Gilbert and Sullivan productions, Iolanthe is the one which I remember most fondly so the news that it was the choice for this year's revival for a UK tour l…
A strong opening gambit then from Michelle Terry with As You Like It and Hamlet, and one which makes me quietly excited for her tenure as she further explores how inclusive Shakespeare can b…
The world of Nightfall is small and intimate but the Bridge is neither of those things and the intricacies of Norris' writing becomes lost like the wafting smell of interval madeleines.
A brilliantly inventive, inclusive and entertaining take on A Midsummer Night's Dream is a great success at the Watermill Theatre. Newbury.
As Kensington Palace gears up for one royal wedding, Iris Theatre is jumping down the aisle first with its musical take on stately nuptials, H.R. Haitch, now playing at the Union Theatre.
Casting my eye over some recent musical theatre album releases: Audra McDonald's live album Sing Happy, Louise Dearman's latest collection For You, For Me and the long-awaited cast recording…
Izzy Tennyson's Grotty at the Bunker Theatre is a brutally frank depiction of an element of LGBT life not much explored on London's stages.
This year's Wandsworth Arts Fringe has now opened and on a scorching hot day, I took the opportunity to dive into the cooling Arches under St Mary's Church to see Word of Mouth and Rachel Ca…
The first half of Michael Head's Worth A Flutter is full of the kind of broad, sitcom-like humour of which I'm no real fan. But after the interval, a more thoughtful strand to his writing em…
With just a couple of weeks left to catch The Ferryman in the West End and the chance to see Rosalie Craig in a non-musical role for once, the offer to return to the Gielgud was one I couldn…
Quiz is a thought-provoking piece of theatre that will really make you question what you perceive to be the truth.
Directed by Douglas Rintoul for Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, this production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert marks the show's regional professional premiere.
A treat here in the premiere of Mike Bartlett's first-ever play, never seen before in a theatre. But something of a qualified treat, because 2005's Not Talking was written as a radio play an…
There's little sense of an over-arching plot in Absolute Hell which may turn some off but Hill-Gibbins proves that it isn't needed, the connective tissue that holds them together is the stic…
It's taken over 30 years for Chess to return to the West End (though it was seen at the Union in 2013) and though it has a huge amount of resource thrown at it in Laurence Connor's productio…
Humourous and heartfelt, Sunshine on Leith is utterly joyous. It is everything I want from my musical theatre and I couldn't recommend it more.
In The Grass Is Always Grindr web series writer Patrick Cash and director Luke Davies delve deep into Grindr and question what the hook-up app is doing to the community and the ways in which…
Based on Helen Tse's memoir Sweet Mandarin, In-Sook Chappell's Mountains " The Dreams of Lily Kwok probes into the family history of the three generations of women behind the famous Manchest…
What it is is a strong piece of musical theatre. Drew McOnie may be the director but he's a choreographer through and through and it is here that Strictly Ballroom shines.
Newly installed at the Dominion Theatre, after runs in Manchester, Toronto and at the Coliseum last year, Bat Out of Hell has lost little of the bizarre, baffling energy that saw it find a v…
Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams traces a true-life story of two Ethiopian brothers who were also responsible for founding the first circus in their country.
An Officer and a Gentleman, beginning its national tour at Curve Leicester, is a show that is unashamedly feel-good, even through its darker moments, and just waiting to sweep you off your f…
John Barrowman's force of personality means the anecdotes flow out of him with barely any prompting from the wonderfully acerbic Seth Rudetsky, but with such a storied career he's certainly …