Mark Ravenhill's The Haunting Of Susan A is a creditable and often gripping attempt to marry contemporary issues with Islington's somewhat grim past, and an interesting, evocative way to com…
New Wimbledon Theatre presented the latest touring production of the "sleek and sassy" successful West End musical Chicago. Set in the heart of 1920s America, the inner moral compass has vir…
Emma Clarendon chatted to June Watson about starring in A Doll's House, Part 2 at the Donmar Warehouse.
School of Rock presents the recipe for a perfect 21st century family musical. A simple story with likeable characters and a heart-warming message, played out to a soundtrack of bombastic, fo…
There is a deeply felt element to Laurel & Hardy at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, that enhances the hilarity on display in note-perfect re-creations of classic comedy.
A wild ride back to the heady, pre-woke 1990s, Cruel Intentions the '90s Musical is a salacious guilty pleasure that has all the makings of a cult classic.
Tony Blair became an MP and Prime Minister with the sole intention of meeting Mick Jaggers [sic], at least in Harry Hill and Steve Brown's new satire Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] at the…
The ultimate feel-good comedy, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is wonderfully entertaining with gags galore and innuendos, matched with a great script and a brilliant and talented cast.
The London Coliseum was packed to the rafters and buzzing to see the long-awaited West End transfer of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady. Bartlett Sher's joyous production had a highly acclaim…
When we received the press release for Iman Qureshi's latest play, The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs, our interest was immediately piqued just by the name. And when we read on and discovered t…
Elle Woods is back in London in a new production of the musical Legally Blonde at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre but what have critics had to say about it?
In The Collab writer Lauren Morley has created a piece totally on the pulse of the young people who live by their likes and engagements. Ella seeks that million followers and the validation …
Based on a true story Kabul Goes Pop: Music Television Afghanistan concentrates on the period in the early 2000s when the Taliban in Afghanistan had been pushed back following Western libera…
Beru Tessema's drama House of Ife, about an Ethiopian-British family facing a tragic loss, is deeply felt and emotional and marks a good start to this venue's 50th anniversary season.
Written in response to revelations about social media influencers, and playing in the aftermath of the Heard/Depp trial by TikTok, Lauren Morley's The Collab is a refreshingly unsensational …
Back for its 2022 tour, We Will Rock You is set in a dystopian future where "real" music has been outlawed and replaced with manufactured pop. Society is lived online and it's up to a group …
Amy Adams, already an acclaimed and multi Oscar-nominated film actor with some notable stage experience in the US, makes her West End debut in Jeremy Herrin's new version of The Glass Menage…
Anthology Theatre productions and David Wolstencroft have adapted the BBC Radio 4 comedy production Bleak Expectations and bought it to the stage. Its cast of nine brings many of the famous …
While elements of Britannicus at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith feel like hollow embellishment, as a family drama about a toxic family who happens to be the ruling class it is a gripping yarn.
Suffice to say, this is probably one of the strongest line-ups in the La Clique show over the last few years, and it is thoroughly enjoyable throughout.
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon takes a look at what critics have had to say about Diane Page's production of Julius Caesar at Shakespeare's Globe.
The Gramophones are a female-led company making contemporary theatre that puts women and girls centre stage. They are currently on tour with Aidy the Awesome, an aerial theatre show for ages…
Anupama Chandrasekhar's new play The Father And The Assassin about Nathuram Godse, the man who murdered " assassinated " Mohandas Gandhi in 1948, is an alarmingly current piece of work, but …
Certainly a powerfully realised piece of drama, Mission at The Big House is all defiantly obscure, though it clicks into place eventually, and you cannot help but admire the skill that goes …
Amy Adams' Amanda is a matriarch full of bustle and bristle in Jeremy Herrin's production of The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York's Theatre. She is an irritating spark to her despondent a…