At three and a half hours all in Antony and Cleopatra is a long haul, but with Fiennes and Okonedo making Shakespeare's verse sing, there are moments here to be savoured.
Following a sold-out run at The Other Palace earlier this year, there's been a lot of hype surrounding Heathers the Musical, with a strong fandom out in force and social media buzzing with (…
Any musical can only be as good as its underlying book and Wasted, based upon the lives of the four Brontë siblings (three girls and a boy) is written around a very strong core.
As Bill Buckhurst's production of Sweet Charity takes the show squarely back to its 1960s origins with Rebecca Trehearn in the lead, the show delivers an exhilarating if somewhat brutal comm…
Beheadings are brutal and barbaric, whether they occurred five months or five centuries ago. And yet, with heads jauntily skewed, grim grins (albeit momentarily) and hand-held mics tightly g…
At Chichester right now, director Michael Blakemore's revival of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen has opened to rave reviews. Blakemore has a remarkable history with the piece, having directed it …
In short, Swan Lake is a marvellous evening's dance and a production that should appeal to both connoisseurs and novices alike. Now that's what I call ballet.
In an ingenious conceit, Erik Ransom's show embodies the Grindr app into a Mephistophelian being who wields a strange, yet credible power over all who engage with the software.
Yet again, the people of Newbury find themselves spoiled with this display of some of the finest talent in the land putting on a show that alongside being a rollercoaster of emotions, Sweet …
This wonderful production of Sasha Regan's all-male Iolanthe is now in the final leg of its UK tour. As such, the cast " who, reviews have suggested, were excellent to begin with - have now …
John Williams is a prolific composer whose work stretches across six decades. The remarkable breadth of his compositions ensured that throughout the two-hour gig there were melodies that tou…
Offering two hours of compelling and arguably unmissable theatre combining humour and cliche together with many unpalatable home truths, End of the Pier is one of the most stimulating new pl…
The strengths of The Rise & Fall of Little Voice will always flow from the young woman playing LV and in Sarah Louise Hughes, director Michael Strassen has unearthed a gem.
It Happened In Key West takes risks which more often than not, pay off. As beguiling as it is macabre, this morbid musical comedy needs to be seen to be believed.
The Lehman Trilogy is an intelligent look behind the scenes of the American Dream and the smoke and mirrors of the corporate world, brought to light by Mendes' astute direction and a stellar…
Me and My Girl's politics may be of the dark ages " but its ability to put grins on faces and set toes tapping is the mark of a modern show that knows how to please its audience.
Notwithstanding high expectations, together with The King & I's difficult issues that are made even more complex in a modern world of evolving values, this transfer of the 2015 Broadway…
In the final tragic year of the Great War's centenary, and 102 years (almost to the day) since the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, For King And Country reminds us of the mental deva…
For the show to soar, all that is needed is a faultless cast " thus the greatest plaudits in this production belong to director/choreographer Nick Winston and his casting director Anne Vosse…
As part of this year's open-air concert line-up Live At Chelsea, some of the biggest names in musical theatre were joined by the Royal Symphonic Concert Orchestra to celebrate the 70th Birth…
With the World Cup tournament currently in play, football parlance seems appropriate in describing Opera North's Kiss Me, Kate, arriving this week for a short stay at London's Coliseum as a …
What happens if you throw together 23 songs, five musical theatre performers, a pianist, and tons of colour? The answer is It's Only Life, a musical revue based on several 'orphan songs' (Jo…
Julie may well be far from a definitive interpretation of Strindberg's classic, but nonetheless makes for an evening of thought-provoking theatre.
In what is the first staging of Return To The Forbidden Planet since the death of its creator Bob Carlton, John Plews has put together a production that captures the show's irreverent spirit.
Arguably, the revival of a 25-year-old script is done for one of two reasons; either its excellent writing simply entertains, or it is pertinent to today's societal trends. With Killer Joe, …