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Emily Garside rounds up her Top 10 shows of 2018.
I often see top "A team" critics looking miserably impassive as if they'd rather be anywhere but in the theatre. Is there some code of practice that I'm not party to which requires you never…
Our pantomime season has kicked off late this year. However, the first of the festive treats that we've been able to attend has surely set the bar high, as a five-star extravaganza and perfe…
From catchy tunes and magical turns to a solid moral lesson for kiddies to learn, Suba Das has created a joyous show in The Cat in the Hat, I urge, families, friends and theatre-lovers to go.
With Berlin's classic numbers and in the gifted creative hands of director Nikolai Foster and his choreographer Stephen Mear, White Christmas becomes a fabulous feel-good delight.
The promise "Everything you could wish for in a panto" I would say underplays what we actually got. Aladdin at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford was so much more.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Anthony Neilson is based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews of the production currently playing at the National Thea…
After an acclaimed try-out in September, the world premiere of Simon Perrott's debut play In Conversation with Graham Norton returns for a full new year season at London's Hope Theatre. Time…
Journalist and playwright Jonathan Maitland will be kept on his toes rewriting his latest play, The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson, nightly to ensure it keeps up with the politician's ever…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Thursday 17 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to award-winning company Atticist about their first revival of David Greig…
Following not one, but two recent acclaimed runs (first at Chichester's Minerva Theatre in 2017, followed by a limited engagement at Hampstead Theatre earlier this year), Michael Longhurst's…
Neural Enhancement With Dr Leon is an immersive experience which began life as a Secret Cinema activity and continues to return and entertain audiences.
Fresh from his Netflix success with stage-to-screen hit Been So Long, writer and director Chè Walker returns from Los Angeles to direct the European premiere of his own new play Time Is Lov…
The Australian Ballet continues their cleverly conceived Storytime Ballet series with Coppélia, an ideal first ballet for young audiences.
Panto season is upon us once again, and this year at the New Wimbledon Theatre, we are transported to Old Peking in Aladdin.
Inspired by Mark Ravenhill's realisation that some teachers retiring now would have been active when corporal punishment was outlawed in 1986, The Cane is his first new play for a goodly whi…
If you enjoy a good festive fairytale but you're not a fan of panto, Cinderella: A Fairytale, this year's Christmas production at the Brockley Jack, offers an excellent alternative.
Matthew Bourne's classic production of Swan Lake returns to Sadler's Wells " find out if it still lives up to expectations with LLLC's review round-up…
Expectations are high for a festive ghost story from the National. With its world-class resources, the theatre offers a wondrous potential to stage the most chilling of tales and when the so…
The Convert, at the Young Vic Theatre, a thrilling revival of Black Panther Danai Gurira's 2012 play about Christianity and imperialism is a heartfelt cry for justice.
Caroline or Change has a lot going for it and three potentially interesting plot lines that should fully engage, yet it never quite unites as tidily and explosively as it promises to do, the…
There is real delight for pre-school kids to be had at the Studio of the Festival Theatre this Christmas, as the clever and playful Poggle is revived by Barrowland Ballet.
Final casting is announced today for the return of Six, the hit musical by recent Cambridge grads Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. The show returns to the West End's Arts Theatre, where it ran for…
Fifty-four years is quite the wait for a sequel but the sweetness and charm with which Mary Poppins Returns lands on our screens makes it pretty much worth it.
West End transfer marketing for Stig of the Dump sorted - the poster strapline will be "I dig Stig!" We definitely dig it. Meanwhile, the return of Clive King's much-loved children's literar…
