It's that glorious Gershwin music that carries Crazy For You at Chichester Festival Theatre. Sure, there are some funny lines, and the plot has the classic boy-meets-girl-but-doesn't-realise…
If you've been starved of productions to make you think, Copenhagen at Mayflower Mast Studios, Southampton is an excellent way to ease yourself back into a stalls seat and re-engage your bra…
Crave is a blunt force impact of emotion, building to a frenzy and then, in a little under 50 minutes, it's over and we leave. The world outside is just the same, but we're refreshed " a vit…
When I want to scream, I go to see live sport. I can shout, scream and roar in support of my teams and vent any emotions that way. When I want to laugh, or smile (or cry), I have always turn…
Bartlett Sher's new production of Les Miserables may not have the cosy familiarity of the original Trevor Nunn (I still miss the revolve) but it makes up for that with a relentless energy.
See this production of Macbeth for those masterful central performances, they're more than worth the price of admission, even if so much of the rest is "full of sound and fury, signifying no…
Towards Zero is a play I wasn't familiar with if I'm honest, but if it isn't the best known of Agatha Christie's works, it does have a reputation as the best of her stage adaptations.
This year Chichester Festival Theatre is taking on Oklahoma! with their usual mix of respect for the piece and urge to find a new viewpoint on it.
If, like me, you still love to stick your head in a book and long to remember the days you could read for hours unencumbered by the worries of the world then get along and see Matilda The Mu…
We're told Plenty is viewed as a modern classic. For the life of me I have no idea why and the sterling work of this excellent cast can do nothing to dissuade me.
Shadowlands, the William Nicholson play that charts the story of C.S. Lewis' correspondence-turned-relationship with the American poet Joy Gresham, is such a perfect fit for the Chichester a…
This Is My Family is a little gem from Calendar Girls/Neville's Island writer Tim Firth which blindsided me with its warmth and sense of fun, even when dealing with painful situations.
This new production of American Idiot from Selladoor is as brash, raucous and punchy as you might expect and opens with all guns blazing into the title song. T
In a wonderful case of life imitating art I have now, at the third time of trying, finally made it along to see The Play That Goes Wrong, a show that has done its best to elude me both in th…
Bianca Del Rio made her name on season six of Ru Paul's Drag Race nearly five years ago, but she's been performing for far longer and it shows.
In Sheffield Daniel Evans made a name for himself with dazzling musicals that were, for all the razzamatazz, full of heart and he's done the same here, taking a show so familiar and finding …
It's not often you see a touring production greeted with a standing ovation but as one of the many on their feet I can say it was thoroughly deserved for Titanic the Musical. Shows like this…
It's a happy 2nd birthday to Mischief Theatre's The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, the laugh-a-minute farce has just announced an extension that will see it into its third year entertaining cr…
If you enjoyed Antony Sher's Lear, his Willy Loman or any of his previous books this is a must read, and if you have any interest in the inner thoughts of a performer at the top of their pro…
The Weir is a piece of theatre that will remind you that at its best all you need are a few good voices with some well-chosen words for a thoroughly enthralling evening.
Casting has been confirmed for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's Titanic The Musical.
Hamilton is everything you might hope for. Lin-Manuel Miranda has written a piece that is at once gloriously current and utterly timeless. The cast at the Victoria Palace Theatre gleans ever…
Ria Jones, so resplendent when she stepped into Norma's shoes at the Coliseum in 2016 (we were lucky enough to be at one of those shows is once again in the title role and she gives a powerh…
It's all too easy, as you enter the auditorium, to be sucked into The Play That Goes Wrong before it even begins. The cast, deep in character, intermingle with the audience to such effect th…
Angus Jackson bookends the Royal Shakespeare Company's Rome season, his traditional dress Julius Caesar having opened it he now caps it off with a modern set Coriolanus.