Yet again, Southwark Playhouse is delivering an outstanding musical for a fraction of the price of a West End ticket. If you love the genre, it's unmissable.
It is rare to find a show so good-natured and yet ominous and academic, all at the same time. Come for the raucous humour, stay for the dramatic, dirty colonialism and the lesson in the pros…
This is not Yasmin Reza's Art, rather it's an intense, well-written and tightly directed drama that in 90 minutes provides a rare insight into a man whose work seems baffling to the untutore…
Shuler Hensley is an American actor who, outside of the theatre world and especially the musical theatre world, is little known in the UK. Currently, he can be found in the Theatre Royal Bat…
There was a 15-minute delay to the commencement of Nightfall on the occasion of this review, with an actor delayed on public transport. Sadly that delay was all too short, as what followed w…
Grotty is a dark, grimy, and vivid exploration of the subcultures of London's lesbian scene. The end result is a play about nothing in particular. Much like its lead character, Grotty tries …
There's a lot to process in The Whale, sometimes too much, but make no mistake " this is masterful modern drama.
If you can get (or afford) a ticket, go and see Chess, if only because the score is unlikely to be played quite so sumptuously ever again. The whole production makes for an evening of stunni…
Chicago remains fine Fosseian musical theatre. Strong story, stylish dance, and Kander and Ebb's brilliant songs. Class, indeed.
With Chicago returning to London, I spoke with Josefina Gabrielle who, as Velma, is sharing the show's leading credits, about the piece and her career.
Visiting New York offers a chance to catch up with the trans-Atlantic transfer of Bill Buckhurst's ingenious take on Sweeney Todd, sited in a replica of Harrington's eponymous Tooting pie sh…
The story of Hello, Dolly! may be froth and frolics, but underneath the razzle-dazzle of Jerry Herman's songs and Michael Stewart's book, there beats a heart-warming tale of simple humanity,…
The book and songs here may be dire, but the entertainment shines through in Strictly Ballroom's dazzling dance. Drew McOnie choreographs the piece (he also directs, though thankfully with a…
Revisiting 42nd Street at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane " and it still remains the finest spectacle of dance to be found in the West End.
For the most part, Sting's The Last Ship is a thing of beauty. The Geordie songwriter/pop megastar has penned a well-crafted salute to the shipbuilders of his native Newcastle Upon Tyne and …
This is a heartbreakingly beautiful interpretation of probably the darkest musical to have emerged from Broadway's Golden Years but, and not unlike The Starkeeper himself, Jack O'Brien has f…
Judy Garland et al may be captured, beautifully, in that flickering light beam and one may know the movie thoroughly, but Gabriele truly takes this score of The Wizard of Oz over the rainbow.
Julian Woolford has scattered references to other famous musicals throughout his rewrite of Twang!! and West End Wendies in the audience will enjoy playing spot-the-show in the throwaway ref…
From the opening number which promises so much, through to the second half that might feel as though it is dragging on just a bit too long, the audience's plight is fully acknowledged in thi…
A packed Palladium saw Jason Robert Brown, supported by the lush BBC Concert Orchestra and the composer's own rhythm section record a Friday Night Is Music Night show for future broadcast. T…
A packed house at the New Wimbledon Theatre rose as one to salute Ria Jones' bow at the close of Sunset Boulevard and with good reason. Jones remains magnificent, her definitive, decaying di…
First seen in Edinburgh and Chichester in 2014, David Haig's acclaimed Pressure finally arrives at London's Park Theatre where it runs for a month or so before heading into the West End for …
Ruthless! The Musical has been impressively cast, with a company whose voices and performances are well suited to the style. The musical will be best savoured with a large gin alongside a g…
Jordan Clarke's band for Assassins is outstanding, and the two stars awarded by this review are for his quintet. See this show if you enjoy listening to Sondheim's music played superbly. Oth…
An imaginatively staged take on The Scottish Play which, in its leading roles, is stunningly performed. All in all a bloody, good, Macbeth.