Ahead of Remembrance Day, Jonathan Lewis' acclaimed play Soldier On re-opens this week for an extended five-week season at The Other Palace. In our series of featured interviews, ex 42 Comma…
Jermyn Street Theatre launches into its 25th anniversary year with a season of work that brings together celebrated theatrical figures Trevor Nunn and Howard Brenton with a rich array of exc…
Ken Urban's intense and revelatory two-hander is powerfully performed by Clifford Samuel and Douglas Booth. Whatever you compare it with, A Guide for the Homesick thrills both the nerve ends…
We conclude our series of interviews with the three stars of the Barn Theatre, Cirencester's revival of Sherlock Holmes-as-comedy The Hound of the Baskervilles. Now on the case, it's extreme…
One of Broadway's most rapturously beautiful scores, Nine the Musical is given a smartly conceived, darkly burnished boutique production by prolific Melbourne company StageArt.
In the first half of the 20th century, many of the great American playwrights such as O'Neill, Miller and Williams dealt with the fraught relationships between fathers and sons. In James Pur…
You'd need a heart of stone not to be charmed by the gentle joys of Guess How Much I Love You. Sam McBratney's modern classic bedtime story gets the theatrical treatment thanks to establishe…
A striking look at immigration and dementia, Jericho's Rose brings the loop pedal and no little invention to the Hope Theatre.
This adaptation of Karel ÄŒapek's 1936 novel War with the Newts is set in a dystopian near-future where an intelligent animal species is first exploited by mankind, then rebels against the…
Mark Mander's creation in The Clementine Show is a sharp and sassy diva who provides a hilarious evening of comedy and music.
Marianne Elliott's Company is a show for a 2018 audience. Take yourself down to the Gielgud Theatre to see the musical which is sure to sweep the next Olivier Awards.
"Small details, carefully recorded" is the instruction a beloved tutor gives to the young Charles Darwin early in this play, and just as Darwin eventually produces something transcendent fro…
Scott Alan's The Distance You Have Come " a song cycle drawn from Alan's work to date " has been fashioned together in this two-hour gig and is an event of uplifting beauty and hope.
Les Enfants Terribles uses its own unique style to offer a refreshing outlook on World War I, but there are moments in which the style of the show doesn't quite work with the story.
At the National Theatre, Stories " Nina Raine's follow-up to her very big hit Consent " is emotionally intelligent and often funny but rarely deep.
A Scott Alan song cycle promises much but The Distance You Have Come doesn't quite deliver at the Cockpit Theatre, despite its excellent cast.
An evening at Marianne Elliott's production of Company at the Gielgud Theatre is unquestionably fine theatre. Everybody rise.
As we count down to the Barn Theatre's comic three-hander revival of The Hound of the Baskervilles, we investigate the three actors playing 14 roles between them. We start with Hywel Dowsell…
Mark Doran gives a thrilling, world-class performance in the title roles as CLOC Musical Theatre successfully trades the melodramatic for the macabre in this revival of its 2005 production o…
This is also a beautifully sung revival of Carousel on Broadway " and even having not seen it I can tell that these terrific artists are truly 'acting through song'.
The Inheritance at the Noel Coward Theatre has been rightly lauded as a major piece of 21st-century theatre and Lopez has a gift for crafting argument and dialogue with sensitivity and innat…
Fascinating Aida's Liza Pulman spoke to Emma Clarendon ahead of her Streisand show at The Other Palace.
Lucy Bailey's Theatre Royal Bath production of Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's Switzerland will transfer to the West End next month, running for a limited season at the Ambassado…
As opening statements go, Kwame Kwei-Armah's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, imported from New York's Public Theater is probably as joyous a marker of future intent as you…
Nina Raine's new play Stories is back to familiar territory: A woman desperately wants a kid. Unlike Yerma, it's not a physical problem, more of a partner problem.