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With White Christmas, Curve has yet again produced a classy production filled with yuletide magic and enough fluffy escapism to warm hearts on these cold winter nights.
If Orpheus was simply a re-telling of this myth, it would be over very quickly. Instead, music features heavily in the show " some of which are original compositions and some are well-known …
Madcap musical whodunit Murder For Two has returned for a second run at The Other Palace this Christmas - and critics continue to be won over by the silliness of the two-hander parody and it…
The Merry Wives of Windsor is often looked-down-upon as a casual piece of throwaway entertainment lacking substance or serious intent, with little for scholars to get their teeth into. Howev…
As one of dance's most iconic productions, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake returns home to a rapturous reception.
What a great week the Barn Theatre had last week. After the final production in its inaugural year, Kirk Jameson's actor-musician revival of Stiles & Drewe's family musical Just So, ope…
Snow White, the latest pantomime at the London Palladium, stars Dawn French and Julian Clary. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
Murder For Two is an unmissable murder mystery musical, showcasing the perennial popularity of detective fiction alongside some brilliant piano duets " Ed MacArthur and Jeremy Legat are an e…
Mark Ravenhill's comeback play The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre is a brilliant, complex and mature account of the abuse of power.
Neil McCormick's real-life story of failure has been transformed into a stage success. Critics are raving about Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement's "brilliantly funny" stage adaptation of Chas…
Cinderella is a festive treat for all the family that of course, uses panto tropes but doesn't make them overbearing and instead brings a lighthearted show to life with ease, fun and energy.
Edgar Allan Poe via Anthony Neilson might not seem the typical recipe for your festive fare but The Tell-Tale Heart proves a gory and gothic delight. Marking Neilson's National Theatre debut…
Murder For Two at The Other Palace is an energetic and spoof-style musical murder mystery has plenty of wacky characters to provide plenty of entertainment
Neil McCormick's autobiography has now been turned into an engaging new musical play, Chasing Bono, which has opened at London's Soho Theatre.
When tickets went on sale for the concluding play in Jamie Lloyd's Pinter at the Pinter season " Betrayal starring Tom Hiddleston " those who had already booked tickets for other, arguably l…
Former law professor, author and academic Norman S Poser is spending his retirement writing about his two passions, the Georgian era and English theatre, and, in particular, the life and tim…
I loved The Grinning Man in both its incarnations " from Bristol's Old Vic to the West End " and so I was most pleased to hear that it would be immortalised in vinyl, or whatever the digital…
Over 50 years since the release of the original 1967 film starring Rex Harrison, Leslie Bricusse's Doctor Dolittle The Musical receives a major new revival stage revival.
The wonderful thing about going to the theatre to see a family-orientated show such as Peter Pan is seeing just how the children in the audience react to what they are watching.
Snow White & the Happy Ever After Beauty Salon is a great take on a classic Christmas show and despite a few narrative shortcomings, it charms, entertains and gently addresses some of t…
Returning to the RSC and the Barbican for The Merry Wives of Windsor after his triumph in Titus Andronicus last year is David Troughton as the drunken and self-proclaimed womaniser, Falstaff…
Director Russell Labey can stumble into London's Tabard Theatre from where he lives. Small wonder he considers it a second home. Here, he recalls why returning, after ten years, with a secon…
Chasing Bono is inspiring, beautifully told and full of heart. Inspired programming and highly recommended.
Scottish Ballet's Cinderella, back at the Festival Theatre this Christmas, is still a festive treat. Christopher Hampson's celebrated production of Prokofiev's ballet, originally seen in New…
With the real world feeling like it is constantly on the brink, the White Bear Theatre kicks off the new year with a show set in a world entirely in chaos. Umbra Theatre's dark comedy The Em…
