In this episode of The Show People Podcast, host Andrew Keates spends the afternoon with director, producer and artistic director of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Other Palace, Paul Taylor Mills…
Slightly frustrating at times, but Adam & Eve provides a good starting point for discussions " some pertinent themes begin to be uncovered.
The Rink is one of those musicals that history hasn't treated too kindly, despite a premiere that starred Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli but with Adam Lenson's expert hand at the tiller, thi…
Prior to its forthcoming West End season during London Pride, Steven Dietz's AIDS-era two-hander Lonely Planet had its UK premiere last summer. Check out this fab video interview star and pr…
The Biograph Girl, directed by Jenny Eastop is a surprisingly progressive look at the silent film industry, focusing on the women who lead the way.
The Secret Garden set a high benchmark, but the Barn Theatre has matched it with another round of rave reviews for its second offering, Simon Stephens' fragmentary meditation on grief, One M…
Within a stone's throw of Grenfell Tower, Gregory Evans' tale of greed, ambition and plain heartlessness, Shirleymander tells the darkest of stories with a very light touch.
Award-winning musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie is to be made into a major film by Sheffield-based production company Warp Films, completing the fairy-tale journey from a 16-year-old a…
RashDash's female-centred, millennial take on Chekhov's story of three women trapped in the Russian countryside pining for their old lives in Moscow is a gloriously irreverent and refreshing…
Lessons in Love & Violence is a deliciously cool, intellectually stimulating and tremendously suggestive reading of a brilliant piece about the politics of power, the confusion of desir…
David Walliams, our much-loved TV funnyman, has teamed up with the Birmingham Stage Company to create a fun-packed yet thought-provoking show for all the family, from young to old.
This enchanting production of Peter Pan is filled with enough magic and creativity to make the adults in the audience fully embrace the child within.
After the recent success in the UK of Big Fish and The Addams Family, Andrew Lippa's lesser-known show A Little Princess has had its UK premiere at the Southbank Centre.
Who do you instinctively believe " the accuser or the accused? Tim Cook's Adam & Eve does an intriguing job of subverting how we think such a drama might play out.
The long-running German production Soap makes a splash on the UK scene this year, performing in the round for the first time, and filling the Underbelly's stylish Spiegeltent with bathtubs, …
First Knight Theatre's production of Conor McPherson's The Night Alive captures the loneliness and vulnerability of Dublin's singletons, with Eoin Lynch and Howie Ripley giving memorable per…
Into the Woods at the Cockpit Theatre is a well executed, solid production with some extremely strong vocal performances.
Gentle as the velvet of a puppy's ear, yet unafraid to take a deadpan gawp at a recently demised goldfish, Animals, Greg Sinclair's examination of childhood tales of animals, is a constant r…
I find myself bemoaning weak material in The Biograph Girl while applauding excellent performances. In the cast of nine, everyone is engaging, focused and talented with tremendous collective…
Packed with humour, fun and nifty footwork, this stage adaptation of the Cliff Richard film Summer Holiday is a joy to watch.
An ode to the zeitgeist, and a reminder of our roots, Three Sisters encapsulates everything theatre should be and should do in this day and age. Thank the goddesses these women have made a p…
Adam & Eve at the Hope Theatre, London has an atmosphere of simmering tension that keeps the audience on our guard from start to finish.
Something about Confidence just doesn't click. Given more time and a bit of a rework it could be a layered, interesting show but in it's current state there is a unity and flow missing.
Theatre company Danse Macabre has taken the original conceit of Sartre's No Exit (three strangers who find themselves locked together in the afterlife) and turned it on its head. In their pr…
The entire ensemble of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical gives fantastic performances and the show is thoroughly enjoyable. I had high expectations, all of which were met for a fun-filled n…