878 stories by "Ian Foster"
The result in Instructions for Correct Assembly at the Royal Court may be that we're not as moved as we feel we ought to be, though there's much dark wit here. Maybe we're the problem.
With the almighty back catalogue of Tina Turner to call on, there's a thrilling sense of energy in Tina the Musical which is perfectly encapsulated in the star-making performance of a fricki…
Opening this year's CircusFest, Pirates of the Carabina's Relentless Unstoppable Human Machine offers gentle delights at the Roundhouse.
Fresh from winning awards, racking up her third novel, vlogging regularly and quite possibly plotting world domination, Carrie Hope Fletcher has now released her debut album When The Curtain…
Brutal and bleak, Kenneth Emson's Plastic is uncompromising about how desperate life can get for those feeling left behind.
Sex and love in the modern age gets a little confusing, for everyone. In Love Me Now at the Tristan Bates Theatre it can be anything you want it to be.
It has been a little while since our escape-the-room group has actually tried to escape a room, rather than just meeting to drink gin-based cocktails, but a special offer in Time Out led us …
Absolutely no disrespect to Terence Wilton and James Byng who currently tell this ghost story so well, it just feels like the time is now is now to expand The Woman in Black's horizon.
Brief Encounter is a love letter to both film and theatre in which Rice combines elements of David Lean's 1946 film with the 1936 Noël Coward play Still Life that it was based on, and the…
Fancy three and a half hours of Ingmar Bergman? At least the Old Vic's seats are comfortable for Fanny and Alexander with a marvellous Penelope Wilton.
Chelsea Walker helms a blistering update of A Streetcar Named Desire for English Touring Theatre.
So not necessarily my cup of tea but in the fervour All Or Noting inspired in the majority of the audience, one can see why this show's journey has been going for a good couple of years now …
Ruthless? Charging up to over £70 for a show at the Arts. Ruthless? Advertising yourselves as an all-female musical when you've a man in the cast. Ruthless? Putting said man above the tit…
As Women's History Month draws to a close, the folks at the Old Red Lion have put on a double-bill featuring up-and-coming female theatre-makers " Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company's Under The Ski…
Is it London if there's isn't at least a couple of Philip Ridley plays in the offing?! Hot on the heels of Angry in Southwark and with Vincent River now on at the Park, Lidless Theatre is re…
The Inheritance is a brave and epic piece of new writing from Matthew Lopez, taking a scalpel to contemporary gay life in New York, asking what does it mean to be a gay man today and just ho…
Chekhov's Three Sisters, presented here by Arrows and Traps in a new version by Ross McGregor, continues that strong tradition, paring back the starch to locate a real emotional directness t…
The allure of Assassins, this slice of Americana, as much musical history as it is socio-political, has proven enduringly popular as it explores something of the people behind the nine recor…
Rivera and Baker's adaptation does focus more on the personal than the political, so this does feel very much like the story of these two men rather than a searching insight into the LGBTQ e…
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's complex and challenging civil rights musical Caroline, or Change makes its long-awaited London return to the Hampstead Theatre.
A lively and emotional actor-musician production of The Secret Garden marks a fantastic debut for the brand new Barn Theatre in the Cotswolds.
I really appreciated my experience at Suffragette City. The attention to detail from the designers and directors is second to none and the company miss few opportunities to gently educate an…
This Frankenstein ends up feeling a little po-faced as seriousness alone does not dramatic imperative make, especially when the material is as familiar as this.
Upon reaching 70 this year, Andrew Lloyd Webber is clearly in a reflective mood and hot on the heels of his autobiography Unmasked released last week, comes this new compilation album Unmask…
Scathing humour, bluff directness and an innate desire to empathise rounds all three characters out beautifully in The Last Waltz, as underwear is forgotten, grapefruit searched for, wine dr…