Blanche McIntyre's production features a fine performance from David Troughton in the title role. His performance as Titus, intensely watchable, is wracked with grief and both real and stage…
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What would you do if you were given a magical box with special time travelling powers? It is a question that has endless possibilities but in the case of Kay Harker it has to be used to save…
This year's King's pantomime " Cinderella " is a more plot-driven and less reliant on effects than many of recent years. It also lacks some of the more interactive elements of panto, but for…
The Royal Court Theatre and Out of Joint have today (13 December 2017) issues a joint press statement announcing that they have chosen not to present the current touring production of Rita, …
Thankfully for this show and its audience, the women of this show, stole it. These women created well rounded, fully realised characters. They made us feel, laugh and gasp.
Robert Lindsay is sublime as Scrooge and throughout the evening delivered some delicate comic moments and gestures without ever detracting from his impeccable and endearing characterisation.
As we walk in we are welcomed by a room set in the round, decorated as an old school recording studio; many an old-fashioned rug, musical instruments and microphones, soundproofing on the wa…
What has also changed in the process of the show's development is its running time; for reasons I can't understand, an interval has been added in.
Shona Reppe's puppet version of Cinderella at the Traverse Theatre until Christmas Eve is a thing of airy, subtle wonder. The familiar fairy story is told with grace, space and imagination t…
Michael Buffong's reinterpretation of Guys and Dolls, a co-production between the Royal Exchange and Talawa Theatre, is just that, a bold re-envisioning of the classic musical that consequen…
The Crystal Egg Live director Elif Knight looks back on how a lack of 'connections' has impacted her career to date - and makes a strong case for all of us to put a stronger focus on diversi…
If you're looking for a present, bound to make your beloved theatre person giggle all Christmas morning, then West End Producer's shiny new book is the obvious 2017 choice.
It doesn't need to be as long as it is, but The Tin Drum is a lot of fun and a dark, prescient reminder that fascism lurks around the corner of Christmas this year.
We should applaud productions brave enough to kick against the seasonal schmaltz. From exciting trap doors in floors and cupboards, to a talking disembodied head and spectacular floods, Tom …
Daisy Pulls It Off only works if the performers get the tone right. In Park Theatre's production, they do it perfectly - it's hilarious... If you're after a ripping laughing this Christmas, …
Seiriol Davies's How to Win Against History is not quite like anything I've ever seen before. But then again, it is. A pastiche, a satire, a brilliant piece of aesthetic campery on a par wit…
On Sunday (10 December 2017), MyTheatreMates welcomed 15 theatre bloggers to the inaugural #MatesMeetUp at the Union Theatre in Southwark, London. In the Union's buzzing Over the Road cafe, …
With so many festive themed shows on this month, here is Love London Love Culture's top shows to book for if you are struggling to decide.
Miracle on 34th Street is a sparkling, joyful and heartwarming spectacle. For a very merry Christmas, this is just the ticket.
Murder, ambition, back-stabbing and sex. Politics is a dirty business but never less than thrilling in Mike Poulton's Imperium, his terrific adaptation of Robert Harris's Cicero Trilogy.
This year's seasonal offering in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a grand affair as David Edgar (it was he who famously adapted Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby for the company back in 1980) tackl…
Kat is a young wife and mother, and Fritz tells her story in three episodes. The first, called Fifteen Seconds, shows her deciding to skip off work and, instead, board a train for London whe…
Peter Pan has been long been a Yuletide favourite, but ever since its inception, the original production with its emphasis on the Darling family and flying has dominated the show's focus. Un…
Staged amid visually attractive cut-out sets that transported the audience to a world of wonder in such locations as The Darlings' nursery, Neverland, Crocodile Creek, on board a pirate ship…