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The mysterious Dr Coppelius may be far more sinister than jolly old Santa Claus, but his status as a toy-maker means he is a welcome visitor in the festive season.
With enough spectacle and showmanship to keep kids big and small spellbound, Scottish Ballet's revival of Peter Darrel's Nutcracker at the Festival Theatre and on tour is the perfect Christm…
Michael Xavier and Tobias Ungleson make a terrific Bob and Tiny Tim team, with the latter showing all the hallmarks of being a scene-stealer of the future!
Initially How to Disappear seems to be a new addition to the classic, British State-of- the-Nation plays in its searing critique of the government's welfare policy. But Morna Pearson has gre…
There are some really quite ingenious methods of creating the required sound effects " a particular favourite has to be Gretchen using rubber gloves, dipped in water, to push along an inflat…
Playing at the Southwark Playhouse until the 30th December, discover what critics have been saying about this production of J.M Barrie’s drama here: 1917. In a remote English vil…
Directed by Alice Hamilton, Thirty Christmases brings the external peculiarities of the holiday season to the fore, plus the bittersweet nature of spending time with family at the close of t…
The Phil Willmott Company returns to the Union Theatre in the new year with its third annual season. The focus of 2018's Essential Classics programme is on "great playwrights and composers o…
Reprising his 2016 creation, Robert Lindsay is a gnarled and grizzled Ebenezer Scrooge, blossoming as he journeys to discover compassion and kindness.
David Hare's critically acclaimed play The Moderate Soprano will make its West End premiere next spring at the Duke of York's Theatre, with Olivier Award winners Roger Allam and Nancy Carrol…
The world's longest-running American musical, the multi award-winning CHICAGO, returns to London's West End after a five-and-a-half-year absence.
Because this is an exceptional year, imperfections seem more glaring, plays that haven't quite found their rhythm are more obvious, and Amy Herzog's new play Belleville, premiering at the Do…
It's Christmas! Which can only mean one thing ... It's Panto time!! 'Oh no it isn't' 'Oh yes it is'...you get the point! I was lucky enough to be invited to Theatre Royal Stratford East's pe…
A splendid script and pitch-perfect performances make a tale as old as time feel as fresh as a daisy at Musselburgh's Brunton Theatre.
Casting has been announced for the premiere of EUGENIUS!, the new musical produced by actor Warwick Davis, which receives a full-scale production at London's The Other Palace next month afte…
It is a rare occurrence indeed to see an audience as happy, as involved, and as diverse as the one that sat with me to watch Barber Shop Chronicles at the NT. What a glorious show. Such dyna…
A sadness that is at first unspoken, then as the letters they read take a poignant turn - revealing a year's worth of bad news in some cases - their melancholy bleeding out to force them to …
Writer Bea Roberts has subtly altered the tale within the overall framework, and as a result, you watch it not knowing exactly where it is going to end up. A happy ending is likely guarantee…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews of the Royal Court Theatre's production of Grimly Handsome. Written by Julia Jarcho, with co-creators Sam Pritchard and Chloe Lamford, it conti…
Ahead of its London premiere tonight (14 December 2017), producers of the Nativity! The Musical have announced that the screen-to-stage box office hit will return to the Eventim Apollo in Ha…
The Tin Drum is the ultimate 'Marmite' show " anyone who's read the 1959 Günter Grass novel will thrill to this enthusiastic and explosive production, as will devotees of Kneehigh's deconst…
It's wonderful to see conductor Freddie Tapner with the haircut and enthusiastic shoulder action of a young Andre Previn, urging them to greater and greater heights. But, to misquote Dickens…
A hell of a night was had by all. Jayde Adams is a beautifully voluptuous woman who takes us on a journey full of laughs. She takes us through a wonderfully crafted set all about popularity …
An international cabaret phenomenon, La Soirée has been seen for the last few years in places like the Spiegeltent at London Wonderground, but it makes the leap across the river to the West…
Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.
