New Adventures and Matthew Bourne return to The Lowry with their Gothic take on the classic fairytale Sleeping Beauty. A firm favourite in the company's repertoire and celebrating 10 years s…
If you're looking for some festive magic this year, look no further than the Dominion Theatre for a gloriously Christmassy, sparkly production of Elf The Musical. Based on the cult classic f…
Hot on the heels of my post-show Q&A for Doctor Faustus, I'm pleased to announce I'll return to Southwark Playhouse in January to continue my long-time association with Lazarus Theatre C…
Written and directed by Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol at London's Marylebone Theatre is a clever show which nicely combines aspects of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle effective…
Sarah at the Coronet Theatre is an authentic alcoholic's tale, sentimental and entirely self-centred, but transformed in the telling if, just for a moment, we can buy into the drinker's mind…
There's nothing quite like reviewing a festive family production when the auditorium is full of excitement from the four busloads of primary school children sitting ready and waiting the won…
Anna Coombs' adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II sees the story slimmed down for five actors, with three of the cast playing more than one character. It focuses the attention on King Rich…
The Northern Ballet's production of The Nutcracker is everything you could want in the lead up to Christmas. Enchantment paired with stellar dancing means you'll have a captivating time, whe…
Lean, mean and totally uncompromising, Frantic Assembly bring a newly updated and gritty version of Shakespeare's Othello to The Lowry as part of their UK tour. Razor-sharp and captivating, …
The use of fairytale, music and the goodie/baddie dichotomy remain in Pinocchio at the Unicorn Theatre, but the eggy, set gags and joke routines of panto are thankfully left out. Colourful, …
Now with the addition of a further four cast members, Love Goddess at The Cockpit has become a full-length musical, in which the events in the former Margarita Carmen Cansino's life play out…
Office-based plays are relatively few and far between particularly those from the 1930s, so the revival of John Van Druten's London Wall at the Tower Theatre is particularly interesting, not…
Discover what critics have made of this revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Cinderella at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. The production continues to play until 11 December 202…
Musical theatre's new guilty pleasure, & Juliet is an accelerated endorphin rush that leaves the cheering crowd on a giddy high. A jukebox musical so in touch with its identity that it l…
Based on the well-loved Raymond Briggs classic, The Snowman stage show can only be described as magical. Having grown up watching the TV adaptation, the piece has always been an integral par…
In David Ireland's charming two-hander Not Now at the Finborough Theatre his usual concern about the British-Irish question of identity remains, but without the explosions of violence charac…
Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and adapted by Simon Reade, A Single Man follows a day in the life of George (Theo Fraser Steele), a middle-aged British professor living in Los A…
As with all shows produced by The Rose Theatre, The Importance of Being Earnest takes a familiar favourite by Oscar Wilde and makes it even better. While using all the original language, the…
David Farr's new play A Dead Body In Taos, briefly in London following performances in Bristol and Plymouth and before moving on to Warwick Arts Centre, is an earnest addition to an underpop…
A highly-dramatic and first-class performance of Opera North's Orfeo Ed Euridice was extremely well received with rapturous applause at the exquisite Grand Theatre, Leeds. This must be one o…
Based on the 2002 book by Michael Morpurgo and adapted by Tatty Hennessy, The Sleeping Sword tells the story of the Arthurian legend-obsessed Bun, who has read the story many times. Swept up…
Nica Burns' choice of an opening production for @sohoplace is Marvellous, a celebratory bio-drama about Newcastle-under-Lyme's local legend, the irrepressible Neil "Nello" Baldwin, whose ama…
Want to know whether Elephant at the Bush Theatre, written and performed by Anoushka Lucas, is worth seeing? We have rounded up the reviews for you here…
The Death of Stalin meets Bond in Unleash The Llama's Man of 100 Faces returns, a tragicomic one-man homage to the greatest spy MI6 ever produced. Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh F…
Since the Royal Exchange announced their new season back at the end of 2021, I've been eagerly awaiting this production. Adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne, Let The Right One In is everyth…