Lee Hall's sublimely foul-mouthed choristers storm the Duke of York's TheatreSacred and profane, trivial and profound blissfully combine in this irresistible, Olivier Award-winning…
Following UK tours of West Side Story and Singin' in the Rain, plus several ensemble and understudying roles in shows like Wicked and Grease, Matthew Croke takes on his first West End lead w…
Salome, that dancing seductress who demanded the head of John the Baptist, has been reclaimed by Yael Farber in this new feminist interpretation the RSC stages Oscar Wilde's more familiar ta…
The hit West End revival of Dreamgirls is rumoured to be heading over to Broadway next year. In the meantime, fans on both sides of the pond can be content with this excellent double-CD cast…
Edward Fox's stellar stage and screen career ranges from HamletandThe Go-Betweento The Day of the Jackal. He's currently performing one-man John Betjeman play Sand in the Sandwiches, which c…
Tony Kushner's landmark two-part play begins at a funeral, with a rabbi solemnly naming a woman's surviving relatives partway through the interminable list of grandchildren, he stops and sig…
The Donmar Warehouse targets a modern monster via Brecht's Hitler satire It's a bigly Trump-fest over at the Donmar, with adaptor Bruce Norris determined to make Brecht great again " or…
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From new takes on Brecht and Buchner to Jez Butterworth's latest and a cla…
Martin Crimp's 1993 play feels sharply contemporary in this slick revival from Lyndsey Turner, with its layered deconstruction of the way that we treat both art and life as commodities - and…
Lee Hall's Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of Alan Warner's novelThe Sopranos, about a raucous group of teenage girls in Edinburgh for a choir competition, arrives in the West Endfoll…
'Everybody wants passion,' says Ivo van Hove in the programme interview for his latest show, but in both tone and aesthetic, his take on this doomed romance is less red-hot fire of ardour, m…
Carrie Hope Fletcher has starred in numerous musicals, including Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and has also published two books. She's currently playing Wednesday…
Christopher Hampton's 1969 take on Moliere's The Misanthrope is often played with actors older than their characters, but director Simon Callow has recruited some of TV's bright young things…
Unusually, actress Kirsty Bushell comes to Juliet later in a stellar career her work includes everything from the title role inSalisbury Playhouse's Hedda GablertoDisgraced at Bush Theatre a…
Sean FoleydirectsGriff Rhys JonesandLee Mackin an adaptation of Moliere's classic comedyThe Miserat London's Garrick Theatre. Adapted by Foley andPhil Porter,The Miseris the rip-roaring come…
Six-time Tony winner and reigning Queen of Broadway - plus 'Olivier Awardpresenter', jokes partner-in-crime Seth Rudetsky in his introduction though surely that's just a matter of time, with…
The late, great Edward Albee is certainly having a West End 'moment', but it rather places this particular revival at a disadvantage, comparing unfavourably as it does with the shattering, u…
It's a joy to have the show back after 33 years in the Drury Lane its original London home. The script is secondary to RANDY SKINNER's whopping numbers!
Amidst the middle-class small talk between two couples, one reeling from the arrival of a new baby, comes a shocking confession 'I've been raping pensioners.' What kind of monsters are we de…
The curtain rises just high enough to reveal a long line of tapping feet a thoroughly appropriate intro, as those feet are the real stars of the show. The plot might centre around a leading …
When Laura Wade's Posh premiered at the Royal Court in 2010, its dark promise that these destructive student toffs - members of the Riot Club, a loosely fictional version of Oxford's Bulling…
London is never short of theatre temptations, whether splashy West End shows, epic dramas or bold fringe offerings. From a mammoth Tony Kushner revival to an unusual Romeo and Juliet and tap…
Alongside a lauded acting career - he will reprise his Prospero when the RSC's The Tempest comes to the Barbican this summer - Simon Russell Beale has retained his passion for classical musi…
The bad boy is back. Marber's Moliere update, which first appeared at the Donmar Warehouse in 2006, has been revived by the playwright for a West End run - David Tennant succeeding Rhys Ifan…
Rajiv Joseph's plays include Gruesome Playground Injuries, All This Intimacy and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. On screen, he's written for TV series Nurse Jac…