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I have followed the success of Fourth Monkey Training Company, which launched in 2010, almost since before it was a twinkle in Steve Green's eye.
"The play is set in Brighton in the sixties around the time that Joe Orton came to prominence. At the end of the piece, he is dead and homosexuality has been partially decriminalised."
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic story, The Little Mermaid follows Marilla's journey from mermaid to human as she sacrifices her life in the ocean in an attempt to be with the one …
The pine tree design by Camilla Clarke provides a subtle serenity, juxtaposing the trauma of war in Bad Roads " a series of sparsely connected stories by Natal'ya Vorozhbit around her home c…
It's the first pantomime of Break A Leg's busy season " oh yes it is! What better way to kick start it than with Cinderella at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre?
'We're still rehearsing at the moment so there are bits I haven't seen and bits we've yet to work on, but there is something wonderful about seeing a theatre space so populated " this is ver…
It's rare that I'm intimidated by a show. But as three bare bottoms on the edge of a trestle table ridicule the negative reviews the attached bodies have received, I can't help but feel vuln…
Rosalie Craig, Owen McDonnell and Justin Edwards are amongst new West End cast announced today for Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, taking over from 8 January 2018.
Blood Brothers is one of Break A Leg's favourites and it's always a due to review the show, the dynamics are different each time and yet the overall drama, comic timing and splendour of the …
With the festive panto season finally on the horizon, why not consider skipping the traditional fairy-tale dames and instead head towards the Union Theatre for a snatch of Simon Green's take…
Taking inspiration from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's quote that "Well-behaved women seldom make history," theatre group Glass Splinters have recently devoted an evening to nine monologues about …
This was a labour of love, Selina Cadell and Eliza Thompson's inaugural production for their newly formed OperaGlass Works for which they raised all the funds, a cool £145,000.
It's more than 30 years since the world fell in love with Jennifer Beals' bad-ass welder turned dancer, Alex Owens, in the iconic dance movie Flashdance. The stage adaptation, Flashdance The…
Despite the name, there is nothing Christmassy about the show, bar a couple of nods at either end. Otherwise, La Clique continue to occupy a niche of their own between the underground and th…
This cabaret-style show has energy, passion and emotion in spades. It's not a slick production; it doesn't shine with bells and whistles, or a complex, sharply written narrative with intertw…
"The premise of this show invites the audience into an intimate recording session of a new concept album by live band The Bad Mothers, and the songs they perform cover all the deadly sins; l…
Eleven years since opening at the Apollo Victoria, Wicked is a well-oiled machine but the newest cast show the same enthusiasm and energy as at that unusual first night in 2006 when so many …
In the shadow of Grenfell Tower, new west London theatre The Playground will premiere Gregory Evans' Shirleymander, a dramatization of the Shirley Porter Westminster Council 'homes for votes…
Following a hugely successful run in Sheffield, the popular new musical officially opened at the Apollo Theatre this week. But what have critics made of it?
Got your tickets yet for one of this Christmas' must-see stage shows, the one that gave us the Christmas single Mistletoe and Wine? Check out our bumper gallery of behind-the-scenes rehearsa…
A satire about satire, new Eddie Perfect musical Vivid White is as surprising as it is amusing, as familiar as it is shocking, and as polarising as it is entertaining.
As for the musical numbers, they come when least expected, but when they do, they are are poignant and offer a brief time for reflection amidst the anecdotes, dancing and comedy.
It all makes for classic festive fayre with Leslie Bricusse's original work, last seen some 15 years ago, being subtly re-engineered for this revival. Jasper Britton heads the cast in the ti…
It is one of the strengths of Ukrainian playwright Natal'ya Vorozhbit's savage war play, Bad Roads, translated by Sasha Dugdale and part of the Royal Court's autumn international season, tha…
There's a hitch at Tango Moderno but there are no missteps. Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are the passionate pair who burned the Strictly floor for years before quitting to take to the ro…
