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It seems that Jessica Swale, the Berkshire-born playwright " also dubbed Britain's "best young director of period comedy" " can't put a foot wrong. With awards and accolades raining down, sh…
The Titanic may have been "the largest moving object in the world" but this brilliant scaled-down chamber version of Maury Yeston's 1997 musical " with a story and book by Peter Stone " hymn…
It was the most thrillingly up-to-date of all musicals when it opened on Broadway in 1957, but revivals of West Side Story have tended to feel stuck in a time-warp in recent years. You would…
Threeway is the latest from the up-and-coming Scottish playwright DC Jackson, who had a hit at the Fringe in 2010 with My Romantic History, a wisecracking office anti-romcom. There's another…
Taking a show to the Fringe can be nerve-wracking, but not for Morgan Mackintosh, whose first musical Between Empires opens at Symposium Hall in Edinburgh on Monday.
Pirandello described this play as a comedy "full of songs and sunshine...so light-hearted it doesn't seem like one of my works" and, to be sure, it will come as quite a surprise to anyone ex…
Reinventing Swan Lake is now an old tradition. We've had Matthew Bourne's male swans, Mats Ek's bald swans and Black Swan's mad swan. Now Swan Lake Reloaded turns the enchanted swans into he…
"This is not entry level stuff," warns Lord Fear (joyfully evil Tom Bell) as he welcomes us to this very special Kickstarter-funded production of cult Eighties TV show Knightmare Live. He ne…
The Slavic myth of forest-dwelling witch Baba Yaga is reimagined in this dark fairy tale from theatre company The Wrong Crowd. Like a Roald Dahl book, it relishes disgusting things but has a…
A great play can leave the audience stunned into silence but a good one can have people leaving the theatre in a ferment of excitement " which is what happened with Fight Night. The bar of t…
A great play can leave the audience stunned into silence but a good one can have people leaving the theatre in a ferment of excitement " which is what happened with Fight Night. The bar of t…
There is an excellent satire to be written about the trials of the BBC over the last 12 months. Making News is not it. A new comedy from Robert Khan, a Labour councillor for Islington, and d…
There is an excellent satire to be written about the trials of the BBC over the last 12 months. Making News is not it. A new comedy from Robert Khan, a Labour councillor for Islington, and d…
Nick Payne was the youngest ever winner of the Evening Standard Best Playwright Award for his last work, Constellations, a dazzling piece about a cosmologist and a bee-keeper whose relations…
When Jamie Lloyd called me last month to tell me that he'd decided to direct a revival of The Pride as the third play in his season at the Trafalgar Studios, I couldn't have been happier. It…
When Jamie Lloyd called me last month to tell me that he'd decided to direct a revival of The Pride as the third play in his season at the Trafalgar Studios, I couldn't have been happier. It…
For 40 years, The Dark Side of The Moon has been considered the crowning achievement of the concept album era.
For 40 years, The Dark Side of The Moon has been considered the crowning achievement of the concept album era.
For 40 years, The Dark Side of The Moon has been considered the crowning achievement of the concept album era.
This year's main production in the Assembly Rooms brings comedian Omid Djalili back to the "legitimate" stage " he's already played Fagin in Oliver! and an insane doctor in Joe Orton's What …
David Greig caused a flurry earlier this year when it was reported that in between rehearsals for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the West End he had written a new play about Anders Bre…
David Greig caused a flurry earlier this year when it was reported that in between rehearsals for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the West End he had written a new musical about Anders …
Regent's Park may be not able to run to an Alpine peak, but the Open Air Theatre in its bosky embrace proves to be a lovely location for this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic in which the pre…
The Bolshoi Ballet's new Sleeping Beauty is certainly opulent. From the feathered headdresses to the sheer amount of gold painted on Ezio Frigerio's scenery, it's a very glitzy vision of the…
At the end of Blam! the audience catapulted themselves to their feet as one and applauded wildly in a riotous standing ovation. Every festival has one totally unexpected hit and at Edinburgh…
