One of the few Gilbert & Sullivan operettas I'd not seen was Ruddigore and it's become a firm favourite following the show-stopping production brought to Malvern Theatres by the Gilbert…
Watching Jekyll & Hyde, one releases that its core, it is about a man who is falling apart because he's lost his sense of identity and everyone he knows is powerless to help him. A para…
Chicago must be praised for not pulling punches in exploring subtexts around gender politics and in integrating serious themes with a thoroughly entertaining show.
Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes star in Simon Godwin's production of Antony & Cleopatra at the National Theatre. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…
Prepare for a for a monster hit at the Hen & Chickens Theatre, as Bride Of Wankenstein receives its world premiere this month. The new play by Oliver Myers runs for one week only from 9…
Jamie Lloyd is embarking on an epic project: to stage every single one of the influential playwright Harold Pinter's short plays over a six month period at the theatre which bears his name. …
Sundays are obviously the right time to catch improv companies in London and when their work is this good, why wouldn't you indulge?
Josie Lawrence and Joe McGann will lead the cast in the first UK production of American literary icon Don DeLillo's Love-Lies-Bleeding at The Print Room at the Coronet from 9 November to 8 D…
The contrast in styles between Nick Dear's The Art of Success and The Taste of the Town is striking but both make for compelling viewing in Anthony Banks' production of Hogarth's Progress.
Do performers enjoy live theatre as much as the audiences? Absolutely! This video of interviews with the four stars of SummerLight Theatre's Much Ado About Salsa puts it perfectly. And what …
Choreographer Tony Adigun tries to take a new spin on a classic tale, but the story he tells cleaves too close to the original to fully do so.
In La Tragédie de Carmen, Peter Brook, in collaboration with composer Marius Constant and writer Jean-Claude Carrière, condenses Bizet's four-act original " and all its greatest hits " int…
There is really very little to fault in this Antony and Cleopatra. It is lush, epic and a piece of sheer class. Better than that, it's that rare theatrical beast: a god production in the Oli…
Thanks to the strong casting, there seems to be a new lease of life in this classic production of Ebb and Kander's musical Chicago.
As Brexit remains headline news across the country, People Like Us, a new comedy from writers Julie Burchill and Jane Robins, examines how this polarisation of political opinion has cut a sw…
You ignore what Ionesco has to teach us in The Lesson at your peril " the Hope Theatre is onto another winner here with a strong in-house production.
David Ireland's critically-acclaimed black comedy Cyprus Avenue will return to the Royal Court for a limited four week run from 14 February to 16 March 2019 in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs.
42nd Street, made famous by the 1933 film, is based on the 1932 novel by Bradford Ropes. This glitzy, glamorous revival is set to make your heart soar, and have you tap dancing down the step…
How do you deal with homesickness? We're counting down to the European premiere of Ken Urban's taut American two-hander A Guide for the Homesick. Watch this stylish new trailer for Stage Tra…
News, reviews, interviews and farewells of the week in London, New York and the regions, including social media influencers, Pinter in the West End and more.
It's a tribute to both playwright and this production that there are so many laughs along the way in Ay Carmela! and that the outcome is triumphant.
So that journalistically useful wo/man from Mars arrives in Britain in 2018 and decides to go to theatre but needs a few tips. Here's the deal.
Written as a response to their previous play Tanja, which explored life in immigration detention centres such as Yarl's Wood, Stand and Be Counted Theatre's latest show Where We Began looks …
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's script for Trial By Laughter at the Watermill is full of the characteristic satire you would expect and abounds with humour and wit.
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon spoke to The Thinking Drinkers about their new UK tour Pub Crawl running from October to March 2019.