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The interactive movie footage in Brief Encounter is well done, there are trains enough to satisfy the most diligent railway enthusiast, and the breaking waves motif is clever. Maybe it's a p…
Writer Danielle Pearson spoke to Love London Love Culture about This Restless State (playing at the Ovalhouse Theatre until 24 March) and the future of Europe…
It is a huge credit to Josh Azouz that he has managed to wield and weave such fundamental truths about contemporary society into a play so damn surreal. Credit to him. And credit to the acto…
Scathing humour, bluff directness and an innate desire to empathise rounds all three characters out beautifully in The Last Waltz, as underwear is forgotten, grapefruit searched for, wine dr…
It has been reported that Tim Firth's Take That-inspired musical The Band, co-produced by Take That, will transfer to Theatre Royal Haymarket from 30 November 2018.
However, the UK's relationship with Un ballo in maschera has been rather dramatic over the past decade after stagings in London were met with little praise. This is Opera North's first produ…
Harriet Thorpe will be co-hosting the Mousetrap Theatre Projects 21st Anniversary Gala at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Sunday 18 March alongside Christopher Biggins. She spoke to Love Lond…
Birdsong is a beautiful love story, interweaved with the horrors of war. Recommended.
Continuing our series on Cirencester's new Barn Theatre and its inaugural production of The Secret Garden, we've had tingles down the spine watching this speech that artistic director Iwan L…
Br'er Cotton is an exemplary play that both honours the memories of those murdered by the state without repercussions, and presents the issues at hand with a care that respects their complex…
The energy, talent, passion and drive from the performers in Bat Out of Hell and everyone involved in this show is infectious and is sure to take the West End by storm on its second run.
The Dog Beneath the Skin is a bit of a dog's dinner and a disappointing end to a patchy Scandal Season.
A nippy little thing this, Lock and Key. A new musical from writing duo Barlow & Smith, a couple of cracking musical theatre actresses in Tiffany Graves and Evelyn Hoskins, and the swea…
Dean John-Wilson (who starred in the title role of Disney's original West End production of Aladdin) and Na-Young Jeon (Fantine in Les Misérables in the West End and Gigi in Miss Saigon on …
David Horovitch, Gemma Lawrence, Kika Markham and Lawrence Walker will lead the cast of the world stage premiere of Mike Bartlett's Not Talking, directed by James Hillier and playing at Lond…
Although the temptation might be to dismiss Buggy Baby as an oddity, that would be a mistake. Both the originality of the writing, its rapidity, its mix of the mundane and the surreal, and t…
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced plans to refurbish the theatre's 550-seat Victorian auditorium, which has not been fully refurbished since 1979, and to modernise its Studio theatre.
Julius Caesar at the Courtyard Theatre is a muddled attempt to shock that quickly wears thin " and doesn't seem to have anything to say.
Actor Neil Hurst is currently starring in Kay Mellor's Fat Friends The Musical which is on UK tour. Neil gave us the low-down on the musical that's setting regional theatres alight.
This production of Brighton Rock has a striking physicality to it, utterly eyecatching but careful not to overly glamourise this noirish world.
Further details have been revealed about Road to the Oliviers, a new four-part series celebrating this year's nominations for the Olivier Awards.
Whilst Handlooms attempts to cram a lot into its short running time, it is bursting with heart and this makes it an utter joy to watch.
Made your travel plans yet for Cirencester? The new Barn Theatre opens its doors in the Cotswolds with Dominic Shaw's fresh new actor-musician, folk-influence take on family musical The Secr…
Auden and Isherwood may have had no stomach for a real fight, but no one can say they didn't weaponise their words in a piece like The Dog Beneath the Skin " a bid to blunt the attack on a f…
Tennessee Williams' Summer & Smoke is undergoing a revival at the Almeida Theatre and makes for an interesting comparison with the playwright's other mature work.