The story begins with Henry welcoming his new bride, Margaret of Anjou, with a boisterous feast that isn't exactly suited to his calm and reserved temperament " though Margaret immediately f…
Composed by Frank Wildhorn with lyrics by Don Black, the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's road to infamy is perhaps best known from Arthur Penn's classic 1967 film. Composed …
Ryan Calais Cameron does it again: he portrays the male black British experience with joy as well as pain.
Premiered in New York in 2006, David Lindsay-Abaire's robust yet delicate piece, which considers the fallout from a child's death, is a compelling tragicomedy.
Set to a legendary soundtrack by the Gipsy Kings, this sizzling show follows the mysterious masked vigilante El Zorro in his efforts to defend the Pueblo of Los Angeles from a ruthless autoc…
I'm not sure whether I've actually been to Woking. It's that sort of place " although how I'd know that if I've never actually been there, I really couldn't say. I suppose it's all because o…
Back in 2019 when Marcus Brigstocke premiered The Red at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I was lucky enough to meet him at one of the food venue vans and was personally flyered by him.
Even a minor Sondheim has something to recommend it, and ticking this one off leaves just two of his shows left for me to see live. My knowledge of Anyone Can Whistle was confined to…
The music and story soars in this beautiful production that brings Victor Hugo's original story vividly to life.
School of Rock (Tour)New Wimbledon TheatreReviewed on Monday 21st March 2022★★★★★Most people know and love the hit 2003 film School of Rock. With Jack Black's i…
Paul Murphy's new 'existential comedy for the age of anxiety' Dirty Hearts, has netted an Offies nomination and a slew of rave reviews at London's Old Red Lion Theatre, where its limited sea…
Dirty Hearts, a new play by Paul Murphy, looks at relationships, friendships, ethics, secrets and morals close to home.
Deliberately marooned in Paris at the end of WWII, ex-serviceman Jerry Mulligan juggles art, romance and music as he makes new friends, attracts the attention of a wealthy benefactress and f…
It is easy to see why this story of racial prejudice in 1930s Alabama made such an impact on Broadway in 2018 when Trump's presidency swept aside any notions that these attitudes were consig…
One of Sondheim's earliest works Anyone Can Whistle has just opened at Southwark Playhouse. Notoriously a flop back in 1964, many have tried but few have succeeded in reviving its fortunes.
The family at the centre of the story is that of Richard Myers (Robert Lindsay), an eminent geneticist who now has Parkinson's Disease.
Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Chinonyerem Odimba's Black Love, which finishes its limited season at north London's Kiln Theatre in Kilburn on 23 April 2022.
David Hare's new play is a history lesson. New York city planner Robert Moses shaped the modern city by supplying it with expressways and parkways.
Performance maker Tamara Micner's online show 'Old Friends' is a peculiar bag. Part-slumber party, part-storytelling show, it taps into a relatively universal experience, that of losing a ch…
Everybody's Talking About Jamie is fast becoming a staple piece of theatre in the UK and indeed across the world.
A group of college friends organise a reunion dinner. So far, so normal. One is busy cooking in the kitchen, three " including the 'outsider' Georgia, recently engaged to Chris " are chattin…
My first visit to this flashy jukebox musical inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was in December 2019, so it was great fun to revisit recently.
Bill Rosenfield's Another America is not quite what I expected " which, it turns out, is the whole point. Inspired by the 1999 documentary film True Fans by Dan Austin, it's not explicitly b…
Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the world premiere of Mike Bartlett's new blank-verse future history play, The 47th, which stars Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump. It's now running at L…
The first thing you notice upon entering the auditorium is the impressive dominating cross-section of the Myers' family's four-storey, ageing townhouse based in Manhattan.