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A Very Very Very Dark Matter lacks the coherence and pleasing culmination of the playwright's other works. Despite the 'upbeat ending', this play displays none of Martin McDonagh's trademark…
Beautifully directed by Jimmy Walters, Billy Bishop Goes to War offers a new insight into World War I as seen by pilots in the skies.
The work of Edgar Allan Poe wouldn't be the most obvious choice for such an innovation, but Christopher York has adapted Poe's short story The Pit & the Pendulum and transposed it to mo…
The Jamie Lloyd Company has announced that Golden Globe, Olivier and Evening Standard Award winner Tom Hiddleston will play Robert in Jamie Lloyd's new production at the Harold Pinter Theatr…
Set at a sci-fi convention for a fictional show, Angel8, original musical Fanatical looks at fan culture, the influence of role models and the importance of being passionate.
Original West End cast members Killian Donnelly and Matt Henry will return to the London production of Kinky Boots when it is filmed later this month for future worldwide screening.
This is not the first time that Circa, the touring, Brisbane-based group led by artistic director Yaron Lifschitz, has staged a show here in Toronto, but it is my first time experiencing one…
With an abundance of laugh out loud moments, Dave Bintley's lively musical score of sing-along chart-toppers, a sterling cast of seasoned performers and a pleasing price-tag " Cinderella at …
Top-notch comic performances and a production that purrs like a Rolls-Royce mean that the touring production of Shakespeare In Love from Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Theatre Royal Bath is e…
Like ripping off a dramatic plaster, now that I've done one show's worth of Harold Pinter it's time to plunge headfirst into another. Pinter Three down, Pinter Four to go.
Audiences are raving about the Gate Theatre's production of A Small Place, as the Notting Hill venue brings Jamaica Kincaid's book to the stage for the first time. Check out the Twitter buzz…
The Bush Theatre has announced Lynette Linton as its new artistic director from January 2019. Linton will succeed the current artistic director Madani Younis who announced in September his a…
In James Fenton's adaptation of Cervantes' 17th-century classic, the fabled antics of Knight Errant Don Quixote are given a contemporary understanding that still preserves the original's ric…
In Yerma, Lorca's enduring "tragic poem", director Jorge de Juan has seamlessly transposed the action to an Afro-Cuban setting where the unhurried pace of life highlights how empty Yerma's d…
Written and directed by Jonathan Lewis, this funny and powerfully honest production of Soldier On gives a vivid insight into the lives of those who work in the military and their families le…
The Old Vic has announced initial casting for Arthur Miller's The American Clock at The Old Vic, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Hadestown) with mu…
Now the National Theatre has a vibrant production of the musical Hadestown which premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2016.
On an ordinary Sunday, Melbourne theatregoers were treated to the extraordinary talent Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin.
The Other Palace played host to the UK premiere of Rob Rokicki's Monstersongs, a theatrical experience that combines rock music, theatre, graphic novels and technology.
The the funny, heartfelt stories of Sholom Aleichem were turned into what became Fiddler On The Roof. Now Saul Reichlin’s one-man show, Sholom Aleichem In The Old Country, imagines the…
Steve Peca paid a visit to the Omnibus Theatre to catch Creation Theatre Company's production of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale The Pit & The Pendulum.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Wednesday 16 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is back at Trafalgar Studios again for the West End transfer of the King's Head…
I'd been looking forward to The Simon & Garfunkel Story thinking how much this was the music of my coming of age years " but it's funny what tricks your memory plays.
"Must-see", "perfect", "hysterics" - audiences and critics have been laughing their way through Sexy Laundry at the Tabard Theatre since the comedy opened at the Chiswick venue in early Nove…
The Fire Raisers was written by Swiss playwright Max Frisch in 1948, reportedly as a response to the Communist takeover in Prague " though the play never specifically references that event.