521 stories by "Shanine Salmon"
Antony & Cleopatra, clocking in at three hours and 30 minutes, is a tale of two halves (you really do only get one interval).
Chicago must be praised for not pulling punches in exploring subtexts around gender politics and in integrating serious themes with a thoroughly entertaining show.
It's a tribute to both playwright and this production that there are so many laughs along the way in Ay Carmela! and that the outcome is triumphant.
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's script for Trial By Laughter at the Watermill is full of the characteristic satire you would expect and abounds with humour and wit.
Bonnie Langford makes her long-awaited musical theatre return in 42nd Street, a tale of financial depression, showbusiness and the uncertainty that comes with both.
Rib Davis is a keen proponent of large-scale, history-based plays. The Sword of Alex is an epic play in a small space. It deserves to be seen.
Arinze Kene's visceral writing for Misty places us from the offset within the throbbing organ that is London; packed night buses in its veins, we are its cells colliding against each other w…
This was the first time I have visited Hoxton Hall, one of the last remaining music halls in London, and it seemed a very fitting venue for this economic production of Arabian Nights.
The End of Eddy, starring Alex Austin and Kwaku Mills (in his professional debut) star in this tale of growing up poor, an outsider in a rural France.
Eastern Star is intriguing and for the most part engaging discourse around the intersection of journalism and dissidence but, despite its revision since last year, it still feels like work-i…
A new rock musical which debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to London, the soundtrack album for The Quentin Dentin Show is now available.
A Winning Hazard is a winning farce, full of improbable misunderstanding and horse spooking, in which Wooler, with tongue firmly in cheek, sends up the material imperative behind marriage.
Divorced, Beheaded and now LIVE! Following its run in Edinburgh and its previous run in London, Six brings an electrifying, sexy and entertaining history lesson you won't forget.
Vinay Patel's An Adventure leaves no stone unturned in unpacking the frustrations of reality against two people building a dream.
Alex McSweeney's Distance playing at the Park Theatre displays an innovative representation of the experience of depression, but with a slightly wandering narrative.
Tony Harrison's Square Rounds returns to the stage, a poetic reconstruction of an industrious age, when Jewish German scientists thought about shit, or rather, with horses redundant, the lac…
I have seen various versions of Swan Lake and St Petersburg Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is one of the best, it is superb.
Antic Disposition has done it again " breathed new life into a much-loved and performed play. Gray's Inn Hall is a wonderful setting for this updated production.
The revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice brings high expectations from an audience eager to see this British classic about a big talent in a small town.
Coelacanth, a dark one-act comedy which is part of this year's Camden Fringe, is set in a world where assisted suicide has been legalised and anyone wanting it can find someone to kill them.
Iris Theatre returns to St Paul's Church in a promenade performance of this 19th-century French classic.
Grief works in mysterious ways. How do you cope with loss? With open-ended grief where there has been no closure? Arguably, a missing person has a greater capacity to destroy than the finali…
I see a lot of theatre productions, obviously, and whilst I still enjoy seeing new shows, new ideas and a creative piece that is genuinely exciting, I am starting to feel apathetic to much o…
Penelope Skinner's 2010 play has been revived by New Light Productions, a company that focuses on female writers. We all know we need more focus on female writers, but I don't think this is …
Adam Welsh has an identity problem, as an actor, he struggles to come up on Google, his wife misheard his name when they met and has the name Adam Walsh in her contacts ever since.
