"Close your eyes and let the music set you free" "Â The Phantom of the Opera Last week I was reminded of my first theatre memory. I was eight and my parents took me to see The Phantom of t…
As part of The Show Must Go On's series streaming Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals online, this glorious celebration of The Phantom of the Opera highlights how it is a musical that celebrates …
Cameron Mackintosh has announced the debut of the hugely successful Les Misérables -The Staged Concert on digital download in the UK and Australia, which will also raise much-needed funds f…
The excitement still builds on a Thursday night, when many of us sit down to watch theatre as though it was analogue television in the four-channel era.
The lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber's free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On, continues this Friday with a broadcast of Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phan…
Far from being just a niche tale about familial connections, the play's intersectionality provides greater depth in the questions and answers it broaches.
Weeks into lockdown, with theatres up and down the country and around the world closed for the foreseeable future, I caught up with the artistic directors of Cirencester's Barn Theatre, Bela…
Conor Mitchell's provocative and high camp opera Abomination: a DUP Opera made its streaming debut on the new Queen's Film Theatre online player, in a recording filmed at the Lyric Theatre i…
Actor Nigel Havers is launching his own touring company with a new production of Noel Coward's classic comedy Private Lives, in which he'll star with Patricia Hodge.
Far from frivolous, this fashion-based drama is a great choice for Chichester Festival Theatre's inaugural broadcast, from a venue that so often gets it right. Perfect escapism.
The tragedy's shades of light are teased out and played with, and much of this owes itself to Michelle Terry's Hamlet.
It is a strange time to predict a new world. But I hope that the planned Diploma in Creative Producing will come at the right time for a re-emergence of creative practitioners across the gl…
Old Vic Theatre has postponed its London premiere of screen-to-stage musical Local Hero and announced that its next production will now be the return of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol th…
Creation Theatre this month invited audiences to watch an interactive, virtual version of Shakespeare's The Tempest - from the safety of their sofa.
The Open Air Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet " which was to have started rehearsals in May " has been postponed to the corresponding dates in 2021.
While its buildings all remain closed, the Royal Shakespeare Company will hand over its social media channels to the global community in what it's calling the "largest-ever celebration of Sh…
The BBC film version of a Renaissance rape trial is powerfully resonant, relevant and a riveting watch.
The lockdown streaming schedule for Andrew Lloyd Webber's free-to-view YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On, continues this Friday with a broadcast of his blockbuster hit The Phantom of the …
West End star Florence Andrews talks about the challenges in shifting from auditioning actress ready to return from maternity leave to home-schooling mother of two, and the surprising gifts …
It really is with a heavy heart that I find myself writing such a piece on theatre. I really didn't think this day would ever come.
The cast recording of West End musical The Prince of Egypt allows the orchestra and ensemble as well as the leading cast to shine.
If you, like me at the moment, feel you are missing out on some of the familiar repetitiveness of life, this is thirty minutes you need to watch.
Bubble looks at the issues of free speech, feminism, misogyny, the use of language, the misuse of technology, the moral minefield around reportage, and the rise of hate groups. Bubble…
Being housebound and isolated is not unfamiliar to many members of the disabled and chronic illness communities, strangely leaving us potentially better equipped than the non-disabled to cop…
I wonder how the defiantly independent Jane Eyre would have coped with the prospect of self-isolation, a reality which had 62,000 people tuning in to watch her journey of romance, betrayal a…