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Though it's in places informative, A Very Expensive Poison is a very expensive means of sapping the intrigue and human interest from one man's inhumane death
Rouge, a 'Circus for Grownups', is a glorious night of escapism and joy. The tone is more cheeky than sultry, with the burlesque elements full of fun, and the male performers eagerly becomin…
Finding humour in darkness and exploring the meeting of Eastern and Western influences - watch the young cast of HiddenViewz new production Trial of Love discussing the new play. Time to get…
Nikolai Foster's 2016 production of Grease returns to Curve as part of a major tour, and, while it doesn't quite have the pizzazz of three years ago, the show remains a solid, thoughtful and…
Robert Icke's final production for the Almeida, after spectacular successes including Mary Stuart, Andrew Scott's Hamlet and The Wild Duck, is a complete reworking of a play by Arthur Schnit…
A new, updated version of Peter Hamilton's 2005 drama about attempts to set-up a white-supremacist state in East Anglia, Danelaw, comes to London's Old Red Lion Theatre this autumn. Book you…
This portrayal of contemporary family life dealing with depression is honest and believable in The Son, yet there's a cold judgement underpinning it.
Simon Woods' debut play Hansard, about the parliamentary ruling class is timely, and amusingly preceptive, but ultimately unsatisfying.
The question in the headline is what inspired leading Spanish playwright Paloma Pedrero to write her new play The Eyes of the Night, about a businesswoman's revelatory encounter with a blind…
Marina Litvinenko's final address in A Very Expensive Poison, reminding us of our political cowardice and idly greedy tolerance of crooked Russian money in our capital city, will bring theat…
What an absolutely brilliant adaptation of the much-loved story The Mousetrap. From the very beginning they had us guessing and wondering who on earth could be behind the London murder.
It may not be a piece that shakes you, but in bringing the words of Keith Douglas to its audience, Sheers has proved a willing literary executor.
Hands up if you've seen MacBeth. Now keep your hands up if it was a musical version. Now keep them up if it was a musical performed by (what I assume for legal reasons aren't actually) muppe…
Lindsay Duncan and Alex Jennings prove entirely watchable in Hansard, a sharp new play at the National Theatre.
The original mischief-makers have been getting into character - versions of their younger selves - for the photoshoot ahead of the world premiere of their latest West End comedy Groan Ups, w…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A programme, and the third in a monthly Mischief Theatre series, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock returns to the Duchess Theatre for the show that starte…
The Prince Of Egypt, the brand-new stage musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell), a book by Philip LaZebnik (Mulan, Pocahontas) and based on th…
Brilliantly and emotionally engagingly translated by Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller's The Son is a piece of writing that draws you in from the start and never relinquishes its hold unti…
The Girl Who Fell, the new play by acclaimed Adult Supervision author Sarah Rutherford, gets its world premiere at the West End's Trafalgar Studios 2, running from 15 October to 23 November …
With an influx of Broadway transfers and film/book to movie adaptations dominating the London theatre scene, it's always wonderful to see new British theatre developing. The Feeling by Kyra …
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Blanche McIntyre's production of Bartholomew Fair, now playing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Hansard is a great political play, one that tells us everything about the society we have become and why the impasse of the last three years cannot be easily broken.
Do you know what the definition of "eigengrau" is? We reckon the cast have been discussing its nuances and symbolism in the rehearsal room for Penelope Skinner's play named after it. Sneak a…
How challenging is it to rehearse a brand-new play with two different casts in two different languages? Simone Coxall has helped to birth Paloma Pedrero's The Eyes of the Night from rehearse…
Actor Anthony Fagan, part of Proforca Theatre's 'family', reunites with the team behind Feel to play "the most ordinary man in the world" forced to do the extraordinary in At Last. He told u…
