Actress Jenny Augen, an award winner for her West End role in the hit comedy Bad Jews, will make her Mischief Theatre debut when she joins the cast of The Comedy About a Bank Robbery at the …
The Weir is a piece of theatre that will remind you that at its best all you need are a few good voices with some well-chosen words for a thoroughly enthralling evening.
If you liked 2015's near-future feature film hit Ex Machina, we reckon you ought to book up now for Version 2.0, a new play by Kashyap Raja that explores issues of robotics and female consen…
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Ken at The Bunker is a deliciously funny show, but it's not all slapstick and close-to-the-bone sex jokes, Terry Johnson's story about Ken Campbell is laden with spirit, chaos and love for t…
It's impressively well executed " some of the performances are a bit breathless and the plot based on the illegitimate offspring of Michael Caine and Marilyn Monroe is barmy " but the appara…
I wanted to know more what happened to the boys' differing careers " banking houses in London, Paris, Vienna, Naples " and how did they get into wine? Actually, that's a fabulous story worth…
Casting has been confirmed for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Maury Yeston and Peter Stone's Titanic The Musical.
Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre is a visceral and dynamic take on the classic Shakespearean political thriller with star performances and innovative staging.
After an extraordinary masterclass in the life and work of solicitors and estate agents, Kath and I can honestly say out loud (and believe) that we will be leaving Suffolk on Tuesday after 1…
Got your tickets yet for Oranges & Elephants, the brilliant new musical set in and premiering at London's Grade II -listed Victorian music hall gem, Hoxton Hall, this month? Catch up on…
This was the UK premiere of Tesseract, which won Nacho Flores a CircusNext laureate in 2013-2014, but I hope to see a tour outside the capital follow to showcase more widely the potential f…
There is so much to admire in this revival that it's hard to know where to start first. Let's go with Lucian Msamati. I maintain that he was cruelly robbed of at least acknowledgement and no…
The accurate reflection of contemporary society in Beginning at the Ambassadors Theatre is certainly a case of holding a mirror up to nature and the clarity of this reflection means the play…
Everything about Collective Rage at the Southwark Playhouse is unapologetic and the whole thing is gloriously feminist and queer. For a laugh a minute show that also makes you think, it is t…
Encased in glitter and gold, 42nd Street uses sequins, beaming lights and shiny tap shoes to hypnotise its audience. Unfortunately for this production, its spell had little power over my sen…
Samuel Barnett and Declan Bennett will lead the company of Laurie Sansom's upcoming revival of Kiss of the Spider Woman at London's Menier Chocolate Factory.
What makes KEN really work is the feeling that we have been granted a genuine glimpse of the real Ken Campbell, a rare insight into why he mattered. Johnson's play at The Bunker does not jus…
Woman Before a Glass is about infamous art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim " also apt as the theatre is not too far away from where she opened her gallery Guggenheim Jeune exactly 8…
Martin Shaw stars in the West End premiere of Gore Vidal's sharp political drama The Best Man, coming tothe Playhouse Theatre in February, with a cast that also features Maureen Lipman, Jeff…
Elizabeth Berrington and Tanya Moodie star in the UK premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's tense workplace drama Rasheeda Speaking. Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, the production runs at t…
Robert Icke's production of this Schiller classic takes up residence at the West End's Duke of York's Theatre, following on from another Almeida Theatre production Ink. Juliet Stevenson and …
The production of Rothschild & Sons at the Park Theatre is another example of London's Off-West End at its finest, seeing a relatively obscure musical dusted down and shipped across the…
Nicholas Hytner's production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre is nothing short of a Roman triumph, capturing the wonderful lyricism of Shakespeare's writing, in what are some of his mo…
For regular dance or circus visitors, the current version of EvoL is still a Fringe-level offering but, with continued ambition, scrutiny and professional support, Hannah Finn's vision could…