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The first West End production of Chess since 1986 is to star Michael Ball, Alexandra Burke, Murray Head, Tim Howar and Cassidy Janson.
Sarah Soetaert, Josefina Gabrielle and Ruthie Henshall, all previous stars of CHICAGO, will join Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr as the multi award-winning Kander and Ebb musical returns to the…
True to form, Ron Elisha's play The Soul of Wittgenstein is set during the Second World War, but while one of the protagonists is steeped in profound thoughts, the play is so much more than …
Whether cheesecake really is more effective than counselling for grief remains unsure, but in Tiger (Vault Festival) Joe Eyre's message of remembering those who love you is golden.
Filled with passion and politics, Barrie Rutter directs this new re-imagination of John Dryden's Restoration drama at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse until 4 March. Here's what critics have had …
With other classic karaoke hymns such as 'I Will Survive' punctuating the show, Tempest Rose's La Revue en Rose sends its audience out not with a heavy heart, but with a reminder that life i…
Mad As Hell at Jermyn Street Theatre is an excellent new play that unearths the story of Peter Finch and Eletha Barrett, and the obstacles they faced during their time together.
For Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre, Hytner has taken out the stalls seats of the new Bridge Theatre and created a promenade performance which begins, like a Trump rally, with a warm-up.…
At this year's VAULT Festival, Small Things Theatre Company's season of female-focused new work includes two fundraising events for the UN Women's #HeForShe campaign, including a very specia…
Catherine Lucie's play The Moor is performed in a murder mystery style as we try to figure out, along with the central character, what exactly happened on the night of a party where a potent…
I stand by everything I write in any review and will not make changes just because someone's feelings may be a bit bruised. In fact I'm not prepared even to discuss it. We're all grown up. I…
The world premiere of The Lovely Bones, one of the bestselling novels of the 21st century and now adapted for the stage by Bryony Lavery and directed by Melly Still, will open at Royal &…
Writer and director Thomas Froy talks to Love London Love Culture about his upcoming production The Sea, playing at the Camden People's Theatre from the 1 to 3 March…
Chichester Festival Theatre's Festival 2018 season, announced today, will feature new plays by Laura Wade and Charlotte Jones and revivals of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and musical Flowers F…
The title of Annie Baker's new play, John, is the epitome of the ordinary but turns out to be quite the opposite. The piece is essential to understanding the excitement new writing can gener…
Hosted by Will Young, who will be starring in Strictly Ballroom The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre from 29 March, the launch of the production offered all the sequinned glamour you would …
In the right hands (and voices) opera's classics can work spectacularly on the Fringe, but all too often in Carmen 1808 one is left with the distinct feeling that Phil Willmott has done to B…
The Revolution is underway. Have you joined yet? Mates blogger Michael Davis is amongst those who have. Exit Productions immersive, interactive game continues until the end of this year&#…
All Or Nothing, the musical based on the story of the Small Faces arrives in the West End for a limited run until 11 March. Here's what critics had to say about it…
Small Things Theatre Company's season of female-focused new work at this year's VAULT Festival gets underway next week with the premiere of Cordelia O'Neill's play Anything Is Possible If Y…
Paines Plough has taken up residency at the Orange Tree Theatre this month with three plays running in rep. I caught up with two of the plays, Elinor Cook's Out of Love and Brad Birch's Blac…
Strictly Ballroom the Musical officially launched at the Cafe de Paris in London ahead of previews at the Piccadilly Theatre from 29 March. Here's why Love London Love Culture is excited…
It's rare for a new production to be demonstrably better than its source text but this one by Frantic Assembly's Things I Know To Be True by Geordie Brookman and Scott Graham shows it can ha…
Musical comedy double act House of Blakewell - aka Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell - took time out of rehearsals to tell us more about their brand-new show, I Have a Bad Feeling About This, p…
The production evokes the dark and brooding mystery of an unforgiving moorland and provides an ideal setting for the psychological thriller that is Catherine Lucie's The Moor at the Old Red …
