Too often, the term 'play with songs' is abused by marketing types to avoid using the word musical in all its apparent divisiveness. So what a blessed relief to find that Lizzie Nunnery's To…
Murder, She Didn't Write from Bristol-based improv company Degrees of Error is, by its very nature, different every time. It's also extremely silly, slightly nonsensical and very, very funny.
It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance now transferred to the …
Why do so many plays about depression and suicide miss the spot? Because they're not written from a perspective of real, lived experience, says Monty Jones. Watch this incredibly open and ho…
I used to love visiting schools. Having taught for many years in secondary schools myself and visited, in various capacities, literally hundreds since I became first a part-time and then a f…
After its critically acclaimed debut success last autumn with threesome comedy Mouldy Grapes, Break the 'Verse returns to London's White Bear Theatre this month with the premiere of co-found…
I'm a Phoenix, Bitch is Bryony Kimmings' story of survival but told with a flair, emotional and physical honesty and theatrical artistry that is, often, breathtaking in its courage.
Inspired by the adaptations of Welles and Polanski, Paper Cinema's Macbeth is as much a love letter to 'The Scottish Play' as Citizen Kane is to the language of cinema itself.
Porgy & Bess is being staged at the ENO in a production directed by James Robertson and conducted by John Wilson. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
Arrows and Traps Theatre Company has followed up last year's autumnal treat of Frankenstein with a new adaptation of Dracula.
After a scorching run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez's The Inheritance makes a well-deserved transfer into the West End.
Olivier Award winner Katie Brayben returns to the London stage this month in Joanna Murray-Smith's tale of a marriage in crisis, Honour. The former star of Beautiful - The Carole King Musica…
Natural history comes alive in spectacular fashion in The Wider Earth " and appropriately enough, it does so in a custom-built theatre at London's Natural History Museum.
Is there such a thing as sheer theatrical joy? Yes, there is, and it comes from an unexpected source: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musical adaptation of Twelfth Night at the Young Vic.
Due to popular demand, Alexandra Burke and Duncan James will extend their runs in Chicago at the Phoenix Theatre. Burke will play Roxie Hart until 10 November 2018 and James will play Billy …
It lives up to the hype. It truly lives up to the hype. Mean Girls follows Cady Heron, who moves from the wilds of Africa to the wilds of suburban America, where instead of facing lions, mal…
Over the course of 30 scenes in 90 minutes decked with imagery and metaphors, Dipuka Guha's intricate script for The Art of Gaman takes us through Tomomi's journey through the decades.
Visually and verbally intoxicating, Cyrano de Bergerac at the Lyceum, Edinburgh is a riotous, joyous expression of the human spirit.
Elephant and Castle is a joy, quizzical and gently thought-provoking, delivering sound performances from Tom Adams and Lillian Henley, underscored witty lyricism, retro sounds and daft, brow…
There's every reason why Josie Rourke should have chosen Measure for Measure to direct in her final season as the Donmar's artistic director. Anyone with half an ear to public events in the …
Chiswick's Tabard Theatre offers audiences a hilarious glimpse of a very special hotel trip this autumn, when it stages the UK premiere of Michele Riml's global hit comedy, Sexy Laundry. The…
The 50th-anniversary production of Arthur Miller's drama The Price will transfer to the West End in February 2019 following a critical and publicly acclaimed reception at the Theatre Royal B…
The West End transfer of Matthew Lopez's modern masterpiece The Inheritance, nearly seven hours of epic storytelling, is a phenomenal play which sold out when it first opened at London's You…
Mark Shenton offers the week's news, reviews, quotes and tweets in theatre from both sides of the Atlantic, including an interview with Sonia Friedman, reviews of Shakespeare in three differ…
A two-hander full of game-playing, Parents' Evening is an intriguing new play at the Jermyn Street Theatre.