'Raw & fascinating to watch': LES BLANCS " National Theatre at Home (Online review) ★★★★★
Lorraine Hansberry's play Les Blancs is vividly and powerfully brought to life in Yaël Farber's atmospheric production.
Lorraine Hansberry's play Les Blancs is vividly and powerfully brought to life in Yaël Farber's atmospheric production.
Oscar-winning film and theatre director Sam Mendes is the driving force behind the Theatre Artists Fund, set up for theatre professionals who are in need of urgent and critical financial sup…
Hot on the heels of their starry audio version of The Understudy, Lawrence Batley Theatre has now released an audio version of Toast to the digital space following a successful tour last yea…
This 2005 production of Celtic Tiger directed, produced and choreographed by Michael Flatley has some interesting concepts " but put together comes across as an incoherent show.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has bowed to pressure from the arts world and unveiled a £1.57 billion lifeline for the UK's theatres, venues and museums struggling to stay afloat in the wake of t…
Spectacularly unique and filled with passion, this filmed version of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton is exquisite to watch " no matter how many times you have seen it.
Love Letters At Home takes the well-worn Our Tune concept from the old days and uses it to develop a show where, no matter what's going on and whether we are together and apart, it is always…
No news of government help for theatre as Tories announce a £100 million bailout… for zoos! Yes, that's right. You couldn't make it up!
Rent recently marked its 24th anniversary since its Broadway opening. Every year I try to write something. This year, in particular, it seemed important to.
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap " the longest running show in the world, which had to be suspended when the Coronavirus pandemic resulted in the closure of UK theatres " is to reopen in the …
Guildford Shakespeare Company first performed their adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic in 2015. After a successful series of Zoom murder mystery evenings, they decided to recreate their…
In collaboration with theatres across the UK, #scenechange " a community for stage designers taking action for theatre " has launched #MissingLiveTheatre, wrapping theatre buildings in a pos…
At just eleven and a half minutes, this satirical musical by Haddon Kime is a quick diversion on YouTube from the Atlanta-based company Out of Hand.
Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss' hit musical Six looks likely to become the first West End musical to resume performances across the UK in August and September 2020.
Shakespeare. Theatre. Press Nights. These are all concepts we are familiar with, but in this unprecedented time of COVID-19 lockdown, for a moment we were unsure how theatre would survive.
A rediscovered Edwardian problem play gives a clear picture of marriage and morals in a bygone era.
Enhancing the magic and dreamy qualities of the play, Nicholas Hytner's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a delightful two hours of comedy, love and misunderstandings.
The current circumstances mean that there are questions about whether there will even be a usual theatre awards season next winter/spring, especially as there may, ostensibly, be little to g…
Today, on the second anniversary of the death of choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne, The Lynne and Land Foundation has announced grants to the Royal Ballet School, ArtsEd, LAMDA and the Royal …
Theatre photography is one of the most important ways to promote a new production and simultaneously one of the elements audiences " and probably most creatives " actively think least about.
The Barn Theatre in Cirencester has built on its broadcast earlier in lockdown of Henry V to develop a sequence of thirty-five monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Series one begins w…
The Mikvah Project by Josh Azouz had originally got quite a way into its run at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond before lockdown took place.
This charmingly quirky musical is captured wonderfully on this newly released cast recording.
'If a theatrical phoenix is to rise post-pandemic, it could do a lot worse than to look and sound as resplendent as this.'
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, hate crime targeted at East and South-East Asians has tripled. We R Not Virus is a series of monologues, films and poetry responding to that.