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The idea of four modern-ish children improvising a story is not particularly original but it works splendidly in Mike Kenny's adapatation of The Snow Queen for a cast of four.
Jonny Donahoe's hit comedy play-with-songs THIRTY CHRISTMASES receives its London premiere this week to warm up your festive season, running at the New Diorama Theatre from tonight (Monday 4…
The winners of the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced tonight (Sunday 3 December 2017) at a ceremony at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: three of the nine awards went t…
How do you cope with anxiety when you're too young to know what it is? This initially appears to be what Good Girl is going to be about " how as children it is so instilled in us to please o…
Many years ago Winston Churchill famously described the Russians as "a riddle wrapped in an enigma". Well, London's theatre scene has a similar riddle.
New Diorama Theatre's award-winning artist development programme, launched in early 2016, was described by Exeunt as "the most exciting artist development plan Britain has ever seen". On 30t…
There's a fascinating concept behind the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group's production of Oliver!, at the Pleasance Theatre until Saturday evening. The simple idea is that there is not…
The flood myth is common to most cultures and John Agard, originally from Guyana, gives it strong African undertones with lots of African resonances in the language which often rhymes. At th…
The Bunker's Spring 2018 season sees the venue truly celebrate its place as a playground for ambitious artists and adventurous audiences, just over a year after it first opened its doors. Th…
This cosy festive treat is enough to convince even the most cynical to believe in Father Christmas.
Wasting no time in getting started, the Carole King musical opened with the protagonist (played by the talented Bronté Barbé) sitting behind a grand piano at the Carnegie Hall concert, a h…
Unmissable director Jude Christian is helped here by a magnificently fearless piece of writing from James Fritz, split almost schizophrenically into two contrasting parts.
Welcome to the Charles Court Christmas party. Their seasonal panto has achieved legendary status in north London over the last 10 or more years, playing to packed houses, both in its origina…
As plays go, Jean Genet's The Balcony is brimming with metacritical ideas " a fusion of Brechtian intent with a Gallic sensibility. Directed by Velenzia Spearpoint, The Balcony is set in an …
Before she was Carole King, singer-songwriter, she was Carol Klein from Brooklyn, a 16-year-old sharp enough to have skipped two grades whose divorcee mother dreamed she'd become a teacher (…
Everything good rests on the broad shoulders and Borat-like moustache of director, writer, star and Sheffield export John Savournin. Not only does he have the best jokes and costumes as 'Lor…
Today, we've already taken a few moments to remind ourselves of both the Top 10 News Stories and the Top 25 Mates' Blogs on the website over the month of November. Finally, we're looking bac…
As it's the first of the month, we're taking a moment to remind ourselves of the most popular contributions from our 20+ syndicate Mates bloggers from the month just closed. What were the re…
As it's the first of the month, we're taking a brief moment to remind ourselves of the biggest news stories from the month just closed. What were the headlines that got readers clicking most…
This is a high quality, no-expense-spared production with a strong central performance, some wonderful comic moments and some superb tap-dancing sequences from the company.
Rhys Ifans stars as Scrooge in Jack Thorne's new adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, which is running at London's Old Vic Theatre until 20 January 2018. Here, …
Morphic Graffiti updates William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife to the roaring Twenties for a run at London's Southwark Playhouse in April.
The actors playing the teens are very fine, but top of the class are John McCrea as a spectacularly well-sung and well-observed Jamie, and Josie Walker as his mum with the only really heartf…
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That it is sold out shouldn't stop you from trying to get tickets - there's Friday Rush and there's refreshing this page in case of returns, and boy is it worth it.
