For a start you need dramatic talent, flair and an ear for dialogue as well as ideas and a good vocabulary to write a play. And I'm still not sure. But, as always it's probably a case of not…
Artistic director's Laura Harling chatted to Emma Clarendon about The Dot Collective's One Hundred Trillion, being performed at the Old Vic Workrooms from the 7-11 May 2019.
Sounds Like Chaos is a youth theatre group co-founded by Roisin Feeny and Gemma Rowan and their latest piece, Wow Everything Is Amazing, imagines the digital world in 50 years time.
The Yard Theatre presents a modern production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Directed by Jay Miller, this new interpretation of The Crucible begins as a storytelling.
Don't go to Rooms if you want an easy, escapist 75 minutes, but do go for language, atmosphere, the darkest corners of your own psyches touched with raw beauty.
Pint of Wine Theatre Company has done a spectacular job of bringing the compelling chamber musical Queen of the Mist to the stage.
Selladoor Worldwide (producers of 9 to 5, Big Fish, American Idiot and Avenue Q) will present the long-awaited European premiere of the multi award-winning musical Falsettos w…
The Glass Piano transports audiences to a 19th-century Bavarian palace to find four characters trapped by their situations, and prevented from fulfilling their dreams of love. Who was …
Acclaimed theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble, in co-production with Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall, will bring the The Scotsman Fringe First Award and The Stag…
Kieran Hurley has created a masterclass in playwriting with Mouthpiece, and is unafraid to shine a light on the darker aspects of the theatre world.
The Marvelous Wonderettes is a frothy concert musical that is a nostalgic bit of escapism " two hours of beautifully performed classic pop tunes.
Aletta Collins' new choreography is just one of the highlights of a most successful West Side Story at the Royal Exchange.
Two days after Shakespeare's birthday (23 April), I'll still be celebrating the bard myself as I make my Royal Shakespeare Company 'debut' chairing a panel discussion in Stratford-upon-Avon …
The Brockley Jack Studio is constantly offering interesting and challenging productions and Queen of the Mist is a must see for fans of musicals with a strong book as well as beautiful music…
I'm not one for twee, saccharine niceness, but the simple, honest goodness that runs through Come From Away is something that I can get on board with.
New York's provocative, polyamorous Off-Broadway hit Afterglow gets its UK premiere this summer at London's Southwark Playhouse, where its strictly limited season runs from 5 June to 2…
This 50th anniversary tour of Hair the Musical does more than any to make me like the show.
Janie Dee and Joanna Riding are two of the UK's finest musical theatre performers. At the National Theatre the return of Dominic Cooke's acclaimed production of Follies currently stars the t…
Overall, A Simple Space celebrates the best of circus in a simple, stylish and contemporary way that is thoroughly engaging to watch from beginning to end.
"You put the grill on high, and the bread under it. Turn it over half-way through. And then you take it out and scrape it." That extract from my eight-year-old school essay could just as eas…
Little Miss Sunshine is impressively directed with a high energy level, the songs are so good that I hope a soundtrack CD is soon released, and overall it's a very solid four-star musical I …
The UK premiere of Estelle Savasta's play (translated by Kirsten Hazel Smith), Going Through is a story about the journey's child migrants take and the people they leave and meet along the w…
Regent's Park Theatre has today announced principal casting for their productions of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar, alongside the full creative team for…
Stephen Mangan and Kara Tointon are to star in a stage adaptation by Sean Foley (who also directs) of the classic Ealing Studios comedy The Man in the White Suit.
Tabitha Mortiboy's The Amber Trap is the fifth female-led play from Damsel Productions, which is dedicated to presenting work written and staged by women. We talk to Mortiboy about why compa…