After a sell-out Almeida run, The Twilight Zone will transfer to the West End and will run at the Ambassadors Theatre from 4 March 2019 (press night is 8 March). Adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr…
I feel sorry that this production of Camelot was for one night only but what a pleasure and a privilege it was to be in the audience for this great occasion.
Only Fools & Horses will return as a West End musical, previewing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 9 February 2019 (press night is 19 February), with book, lyrics and score co-writte…
Mark Shenton views the week of news, openings & upcoming awards… in the West End, Broadway & beyond.
We have released our latest episode of The Show People Podcast in memory of Daniel 'Dani' Bolton (1990 " 2018). Thank you to everyone who sent in their beautiful stories about Dani Bolton.
This intelligent and sensitive adaptation of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic Mrs Dalloway at the Arcola Theatre is a good example of current fringe creativity.
People Like Us at the Union Theatre follows a group of friends and their monthly book club. The show is split into two time frames: Pre-vote results and Post-vote results.
The Broadway @ The Leicester Square brand is one which surfaces infrequently but always pays rich rewards when it does. Having attracted Patti LuPone, then Audra McDonald and John Barrowman …
Mike Leigh's genius was to offer Abigail's Party to audiences who roared with laughter without recognising themselves on the stage. Julie Burchill and Jane Robins may have pulled off the sam…
Cheeky little romp Moll Flanders, through the life of a fictitious and notorious London whore, has now been turned into a saucy theatre production, complete with the occasional ditty, premie…
This new musical, Liberty Rides Forth, presented at the Waterloo East Theatre, is performed with gusto by the whole cast, all of whom are in fine voice. The problems start with the story. …
Harry Potter's James Phelps is changing a wizard wand for a rifle as he moves from the Battle of Hogwarts to the Battle of the Somme in The Greater Game at the Waterloo East Theatre. Self-co…
While I may see less, I still have plenty to say. So I thought I'd start with the shows I've seen and loved that have transferred (or are soon transferring) to the West End.
My Top 10 'Losing My Mind' post has been one of the most popular on the site, so I thought I would repeat the exercise with what is arguably Company's most iconic song 'Being Alive'.
Before Trevor Nunn revives Fiddler on the Roof at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Saul Reichlin returns to the original stories (and others) by renowned Jewish writer Sholom Aleichem that insp…
Intimacy: letting oneself be vulnerable to 'baggage', words and actions of another. Perhaps not a textbook romantic/sexual definition of the word, but in Hedgehogs & Porcupines, 'hearts…
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper star in this updated version of the tragic love story A Star Is Born. Here's what the critics have been saying about it…
Full of great promise, We'll Live & Die in These Towns has a blistering soundtrack that is masterfully performed by a band of talented actor-musicians " a real audiovisual gift from Cov…
Director Richard Eyre is to be this year's recipient of the Gielgud Award for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts. The award will be presented by Ian McKellen at the UK Theatre Awards on Sunday …
Bourne's Swan Lake is timeless, this production as fresh as ever, while a company that embodies a tireless amount verve, ingenuity, precision and emotion ensure this is a revival to be unive…
Alun Armstrong, Maggie Steed and Nicola Walker have been cast in the world premiere of Mark Ravenhill's play The Cane, directed by Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone.
I was enthralled by this fiery revival of Cock which may have lost its initial shock value in the intervening, increasingly liberated, years, but is still capable of being moving, comical an…
Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen will open at the Noël Coward Theatre in autumn 2019, reuniting the original Broadway creative team for this West End production.
As the 16-strong company of Soldier On ready for a return with a much-deserved five-week transfer season at The Other Palace, here's a word from writer/director Jonathan Lewis, who wrote the…
The work of Tmesis has always examined the stuff of life with style, precision, humour and heart, and the company's latest show Beyond Belief is no exception.