Schematic Theatre's award-winning online lockdown hit Viper Squad gets its live premiere in an immersive action-adventure at London's CoLab Tavern, running from 27 January to 22 March 2022.
Mark St Germain's award-winning 2010 Off-Broadway play Freud's Last Session gets its European premiere in January at London's King's Head Theatre, with a real-life psychiatrist playing Sigmu…
The holidays have always been a time of rich pickings for dramatists, bringing together people (pre-Covid at least) who probably avoid each other for the rest of the year.
We all know how we feel about 2021. What we need to do is celebrate what made it fabulous so here is my pick of what the year had to offer.
Respectfully adapted and lushly scored, dreamily romantic and heartbreakingly moving, the new movie adaptation of evergreen classic West Side Story gleams with the splendour of mega-budget m…
I'm not sure even the greatest admirers of this 2006 Broadway smash will be prepared for the emotional and visceral impact of this jaw-droppingly fine new production by the Almeida's artisti…
Director Rebecca Frecknall and designer Tom Scutt have done an awesome job in reconfiguring the Playhouse Theatre into the risqué surroundings of The Kit Kat Club.
I'm a huge fan of Back to the Future. I saw it for the first time in January 1986 and maybe a hundred times since.
James Graham's latest history play has an eye on the present but a messy staging.
It's been ten years since Bring It On was first made into a musical. These days it has an interest as a piece of Lin-Manuel Miranda juvenilia, pre-Hamilton and co-created with others.
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is a punchy, punky burst of feminist fun from the producers of Six and based on the picture book by Kate Pankhurst.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is the theatre adaptation of the first in the children's book series, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.
Mama G is back with her special brand of storytelling, this time in picture book format. Dick Whittington is the story of a young man seeking asylum in a country where it is OK to be gay.
What if you fancy a festive show but you're not in the mood for Dickensian drama? Shitfaced Showtime is the answer.
Panto, as most British traditions, is a deeply weird thing but entertains many families over the Christmas period.
Alexander Knott's atmospheric take on A Christmas Carol places Bob Cratchit centre stage as familiar events from Dickens' story are related to the audience through his eyes.
Pins and Needles Productions, in league with Bristol's Tobacco Factory Theatre makes a reliably bold move by taking something familiar and confounding expectations every step of the way.
Sophie has been running competitively since she was nine. Now on the threshold of adulthood, she's training hard with an unwavering focused on major international competitions.
With two hours of acts ranging from catchers to aerialists, jugglers to puppet elephants, teeterboard leapers to hula hoopers, Circus 1903 has something for everyone.
David Walliams' style of humour also tends towards the gross side. But in between all the fart jokes is a story with real heart that will resonate with adults and children alike.
For her last production at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Blanche McIntyre expertly conjured the life of a city onto a tiny stage. Her Measure for Measure is another city play, but of a very diffe…
In 1973 when Habeas Corpus was first staged, it reflected attitudes and behaviour indicative of its time.
Directed by Rupert Goold with a cast of highly talented young performers, this energetic production about teenage desire and the failure of parental direction is a rare musical choice for th…
A theatrical experience that you will never forget " Eddie Redmayne revels in the role of the Emcee, but Jessie Buckley steals the show in Cabaret.
Race, rage and relevance: sensitive revival of American writer Alice Childress' 1955 anti-racist play shines bright.