835 stories by "Paul Vale"
New Diorama, London: This new piece focuses on episodes in the life and death of mathematician, inventor and war hero Alan Turing. Much of the same territory is covered in Hugh Whitemore…
Arts, London: One of the joys of Jonathan Harvey's 1993 play, Beautiful Thing, is that despite occasional references to celebrity it manages to remain a fairly contemporary piece. The t…
Royal Court Theatre, London: When you are faced with 36 duologues in an afternoon you really have to pack a punch to be noticed. Fortunately the graduating students of ALRA's Three-Year…
Leicester Square, London: At an age when most people contemplate their dotage, actress, writer and mother Joan Collins gamely takes the role of host in this one-woman show, detailing the hig…
Hoxton Hall, London: Based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Revenge is an adaptation of the original Sherlock Holmes-The Musical, which managed a fairly forgettable s…
Hackney Empire, London: Over 16 years in the making, Carl Leighton-Pope's musical Carnaby Street offers a peek at London in the swinging sixties, when youth culture began to make an imp…
Phoenix, London: Thanks to the bellowing publicity machine of The Book Of Mormon, audiences might be forgiven for not noticing that another Broadway transfer has just opened in the West End.…
Cockpit, London: Streets, by Scottish composer and lyricist Finn Anderson, originally premiered to critical acclaim at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Despite its hefty praise, the adage…
Leicester Square, London: The set-up of Mat Ricardo's London Varieties is relatively straightforward, with juggler and performer Ricardo playing host to a selection of the finest variet…
Union Theatre, London: Plagued with problems in the lead-up to its premier on Broadway in 1968, Darling of the Day originally starred Patricia Routledge and Vincent Price in what was to be h…
Soho, London: In one of the more inventive and absorbing student showcases of the season, the graduating students of East 15's BA Acting and Contemporary Theatre course write, direct an…
Leicester Square, London: Leslie Jordan became a household name in the UK through his occasional appearances on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. In 2011, Jordan brought his one-man show, My …
New Wimbledon, London: After a healthy run in the West End, Broadway and, of course, its original run in Australia, the ultimate road-musical is finally taking a tour of the UK. Based on the…
Lost, London: With its glamorous commercial PR and heavy reinforcement of class hierarchy, commercial airline travel has long been a rich source of humour, from the woefully short-lived The …
Criterion, London: Although based in Glasgow, <a href="http://www.gamta.org.uk/">GAMTA</a> is keen to ensure that its musical theatre graduates are afforded all the opp…
Broadway Studio, London: Originally conceived from an improvised play, this charming musical follows a disparate group of quirky adolescents as they take part in a school spelling competitio…
Blue Elephant, London: In a city driven to the edge of collapse after bloody wars, King Oedipus triumphs, only to be faced with horrifying discoveries about the curse of his birth. For this …
Aldwych, London: In something akin to a moment from a classic Hollywood movie, Gavin Lee - the new leading man of Top Hat - is suffering with a chest infection and unable to appear. While we…
Wilton's Music Hall, London: The presence of The Great Gatsby in London will linger on for a while, on the fringe at least. After last year's three stage adaptations and ahead of the re…
Tabard, London: For the past two years Pulling Focus Ltd have produced the light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan with an emphasis on the word 'light'. While it's true that the …
Hippodrome, London: Relatively unknown in the UK, Sherie Rene Scott is a big name on and off stage on Broadway. A double Tony Award nominee for The Little Mermaid and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels…
Landor, London: The Landor's From Page to Stage season, running until March 17, aims to highlight new musical theatre by showcasing and running workshops of new writing from a collectio…
The Crazy Coqs, London: Elaine Delmar has had an enviably diverse career as a performer, working on the West End stage in productions such as Cowardy Custard and Bubbling Brown Sugar in the …
Leicester Square, London: Having won Mervyn Stutter's Spirit of the Fringe award in 2011, performance artists from Sendai - Japan SIRO-A - are finally making their London debut. The nam…
The Crazy Coqs, London: Being the daughter of Judy Garland and producer Sid Luft means that a career in cabaret comes with certain expectations. By no means as big a star as her mother and p…
