The Old Vic has announced a host of celebratory activities to mark its bicentenary, from free performances and a family-focused open house with comedy, stage make up demonstrations, puppetry…
Jordi Galceran's The Grönholm Method will have its UK premiere at the Menier Chocolate Factory, directed by BT McNicholl making his UK directorial debut. The production opens on 22 May 2018…
Despite the inconclusive nature of the story, Love Me Now does give a vivid impression of how some millennials view sex as transactional and love as impossible.
So not necessarily my cup of tea but in the fervour All Or Noting inspired in the majority of the audience, one can see why this show's journey has been going for a good couple of years now …
Final casting has been announced for the first complete London revival of Noël Coward's Tonight at 8.30 since 1936, being staged by Jermyn Street Theatre as part of its The Reaction Seaso…
B is an independent, modern woman, who for the last few months has been enjoying a casual sexual relationship with A.
Beginners just isn't engaging enough for adults and children alike for much of the time and I wish the playful element had been consistent because the emotional aspects failed to hit the mar…
Phyllida Lloyd directs Verdi's opera with a cast including Anna Netrebko and Anna Pirozzi, Željko LuÄić and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, running at the Royal Opera House until 10 April …
Plenty to choose from but the twitter tag that really stood out to me was Be More Matilda. Despite being the smallest leading lady in the West End, Matilda is certainly inspiring, and the sh…
If you are a seasoned opera fan, I urge you to force your destiny to align with Welsh National Opera and watch this production " the music is to die for.
Ross McGregor's latest adaptation is faithful to the source material, though there is the inclusion of music at various junctures to accentuate the 'scenes of merriment'.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 17 May 2018 at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to comic Katy Brand about making her pl…
Ruthless? Charging up to over £70 for a show at the Arts. Ruthless? Advertising yourselves as an all-female musical when you've a man in the cast. Ruthless? Putting said man above the tit…
As the leads, Isabel Pollen and Jim Sturgeon are captivating. Suitably reserved and excited at times they create a moving and heartbreaking relationship which blurs the lines between film an…
It is difficult to know what else to say about this musical that has already had so much praise and enthusiasm thrown at it.
It's Sydney's turn to discover the joys of In The Heights, and this electric new production is the ideal introduction.
Fearing 'yet another' one-woman show about Judy Garland, I almost missed out on Songs for Nobodies, but three things conspired to make it rather special.
I used to review large numbers of graduating student showcases for The Stage. Then last year an editorial policy decision was made at the Stage not to cover them any more. So I didn't go to …
Philip Ridley's Vincent River, directed by Robert Chevara, is in many ways a contemporary retelling of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer.
A year on from the terrorist attack on Westminster bridge, Our Big Love Story came to the Hope Theatre, a play set around a teacher and four students in the wake of what became known as the …
Before the curtain opened, we were entertained by the sarcasm and wit of Captain Shaw (Clive Mantle) who appeared as the resident Fireman, his job being to undo the pyrotechnical mayhem caus…
Carrie Hope Fletcher must be one of the busiest people in the West End. During the last few years she's managed to write four books (and a novella), perform in various shows and concerts, co…
Side by Side, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Spoonful of Sherman, a Shovelful of… Schwartz, Songs from the Shows, a somewhat unenchanted evening with " may the gods preserve us from compilation …
In its incorporation of Howards End and the conversation between its fictional literary inspiration and its contemporary " Matthew Lopez " The Inheritance manages to create something wholly …
As Women's History Month draws to a close, the folks at the Old Red Lion have put on a double-bill featuring up-and-coming female theatre-makers " Tik-sho-ret Theatre Company's Under The Ski…