It's third time lucky for Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and 101 Dalmatians which is billed as a new musical. Given that it should have premiered two years ago " and then one year ago (thank…
Ambreen Razia's play Favour looks into the lives of a trio of women from the same family but of rather different generations. It does so with a vigour that is at times quite intoxicating and…
The Edinburgh Festival is not far away now and, as often happens at this time of year, there are a number of shows playing themselves in before transferring in a northerly direction for thei…
August Strindberg's The Dance Of Death from 1900 has been credited with prefiguring the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter and most notably provided a template for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid…
Cultural appropriation doesn't just take place across different nations
The second pair of plays from #FinboroughFrontier's quartet of pieces #VoicesFromUkraine reflecting on the situation in the war torn nation is now available. They join the first couple to fo…
In The Machine Stops E. M. Forster unusually abandons his general milieu of the genteel classes and takes a look at a supposed future " the theme of connection, however, is still very much i…
Broadcast on the fifth anniversary, one cannot but conclude that Grenfell, Scenes From The Enquiry is a devastating critique of a system which put money before people and allowed a tragedy w…
Voted back into power three times, Tony Blair left office with the accusations of being a manipulative liar ringing in his ears " not that that has ever slowed down the current incumbent. An…
Based on a true story Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan concentrates on the period in the early 2000s when the Taliban in Afghanistan had been pushed back following Western libera…
Certainly a powerfully realised piece of drama, Mission at The Big House is all defiantly obscure, though it clicks into place eventually, and you cannot help but admire the skill that goes …
What do you do when the artistic muse has deserted you? Or when it has never really arrived?
Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs is a fascinating glimpse into the development of one of the major playwrights of the 20th century and this production does it full credit.
All three of the short plays that feature in Fizzy Sherbet's audio series centre on writer/performers who, not unnaturally, bring a depth of emotion to their own work.
I'm not sure whether I've actually been to Woking. It's that sort of place " although how I'd know that if I've never actually been there, I really couldn't say. I suppose it's all because o…
One of Sondheim's earliest works Anyone Can Whistle has just opened at Southwark Playhouse. Notoriously a flop back in 1964, many have tried but few have succeeded in reviving its fortunes.
Diary Of A Somebody is credited to John Lahr, though technically he might be said to be the arranger/editor. For the actual words are those of Joe Orton as recorded in a journal that he deci…
After a trying day (don't ask), it was particularly pleasing therefore to unwind with Sasha Regan's All-Male HMS Pinafore at Wilton's Music Hall in the East End.
Having seen Marcus Brigstocke's name attached to it, I instantly assumed this would be a broadly comic play that was strong on laughs and reasonably light on subject matter.
Animal behaviour but within a human framework. This is a powerful new play from Ruby Thomas at Hampstead Theatre.
Kipps " The New Half A Sixpence Musical is "new" in the sense that it's an updated version of a musical first performed in the early 1960s to showcase the singing, dancing and banjo playing …
East Is East is a recent addition to National Theatre's At Home catalogue and only appeared as a live production back in October.
Ruth Wilson is strong casting in the central role with a, for once, restrained Ivo van Hove directing.
Light as a souffle but such a delight. It's doubtful whether there has ever been a classier bit of froth than this Cole Porter show.
The Shrek franchise opts for a modern-day spin on the traditional form, undermining expectations and undercutting some of the more winsome aspects with one-liners and witty put-downs.