103 stories by "Tal Fox"
This year, marking Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, has been the perfect time to get into Shakespeare, or renew your undying love for the Bard, with multiple modernised and varied adap…
Based on the book by Frances Hodgson- Burnett, The Secret Garden follows little orphan, Mary Lennox (Alana Hinge) who is brought to Yorkshire to live with her uncle after her parents die of …
Any play that opens with the Spice Girl’s ‘If you wanna be my lover‘Â seems to be promising, but unfortunately the hype ends there. Miranda is the star of the Heartbreake…
In the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s life, it seems that A Midsummer Night’s Dream is popping up all over the country. Actually, if you are looking to dip your toe into…
“Where will you be a year from now?” the play asks all of its interviewees . People aged between four and 94 are asked personal questions about their life which is brought to lif…
Gobsmacked! is the latest show from the producers of The Magnets and Soweto Gospel Choir " and if Pitch Perfect didn’t turn you into an a cappella fan, this show will. The seven perfor…
Maybe it was that old disco classic blasting over the speakers, the glitter that had just been applied to either side of my eyes or the dance floor that transported us back to a seventies ni…
How to explain Karagula… Well, it starts with two teenagers who look like they could have been extras in Grease. Except this isn’t 1950s America, it’s some bizarre, dystopi…
Your favourite characters are leaping out of the page and onto the stage. Find out where you can watch the creations of authors from Roald Dahl to Michael Morpurgo to David Almond come to li…
So, this is what the programme says this show is about: “Every year two friends meet on the same day in their two favourite cities to catch up and go over old times. One year it’…
In a world where a 27 year old unmarried woman is cause for concern, Anne Elliott (Rose McPhilemy) has no romantic prospects on the horizon. Eight years earlier Anne was persuaded to break o…
If the name doesn’t give it away, Into The Hoods: Remixed is based on Sondheim’s musical Into The Woods. Many people know the plot of the original show from the 2014 film, so her…
The revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy is just what the West End needs. This is a genuinely hilarious comedy that doesn’t resort to cheap laughs. The set is delightfully bizarre …
Farce can usually quite hit and miss depending on who you are. Perhaps unsurprisingly, despite what could be classed as ‘easy laughs,’ Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon give fantast…
Eggs is a new work from the writer and actor of VAULT Festival 2015’s sold-out, critically-acclaimed show, Love To Love To Love You. The play was chosen by Nick Hern Books to be pub…
We hear the words, ‘never again’ many times and yet we still live in an age where war is constantly looming over us. Valiant, based on the book Valiant Women in War and Exile by …
The End of Longing is so much more than play for Friends fans to go and gush over Matthew Perry. In fact this brilliantly written and oh-so-witty play makes you wonder how Perry’s skil…
I’m not too sure what I was watching in All Genius All Idiot, and yet it seems to do exactly what it says it does. Four bizarrely dressed men, behaving in the most peculiar way throwin…
Let the Savoy Theatre whisk you away from your January blues to old Broadway where the 'sinners' come out at night. After a successful run at the Chichester Festival, Guys and Dolls returns …
It's a year on since Madeline died, so her children Jade (Maria Askew) and Noah (Simon Maeder) and their dad Terry (Frode GjerlØw) hold a memorial showing a family favourite, Jurassic Par…
Britain is on the brink of war and the city children have been evacuated to the countryside. William Beech (Alex Taylor-McDowall) is sent to live with Tom Oakley (David Troughton), a reclusi…
Di (Kate Maravan) confronts her husband David (Jonathan McGuinness) with their teenaged son Jack's bloody shirt. From this point a series of events unravel before them, making them question …
 Even as an English Literature graduate I sometimes find it hard to keep on top of marvellous performance or a combination of the two, The Devil Is An Ass at The Rose Playhouse has a deli…
Leslie Bricusse is one of the big names in both stage and screen. Some may recognise Charlie and the Chocolate Factory classics such as ‘Pure Imagination’ or ‘The Candy Man…
“How far would you go to protect your family?” During the war, George (Edward Pinner) and Margaret (Christine Rose) decide to live in their bunker and attempt to lead a normal li…
