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Kneehigh's production of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, adapted and directed by Emma Rice, will again be produced live on stage at a West End cinema after its 2008 success.
With Kathy Burke's imprimatur attached as director, my expectations were high for Sam Bain's The Retreat although everything else about the writer was unknown to me.
Tiny Dynamite, by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan, returns to London for its first professional revival in 15 years. This play, one of her early works, explores how tiny…
It's about three in the morning on a Saturday night in the living room of a one-bedroom flat in Crouch End. Laura is a 38-year-old managing director, and it's the tail end of her housewarmin…
Leading lady Mona is driving director Hennessy mad with her diva ways. One of the chorus line has gone awol. And little Ruby from Utah has come to Broadway with big dreams.
Final casting has been announced for the West End return of The Rat Pack - Live from Las Vegas, which starts performances on 13 December 2017 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, home to its firs…
Opera: Passion, Power and Politics is a vast and exhilarating exhibition which explores the complex and beautiful history of opera as well as its power to affect us all. In collaboration wit…
The award-winning Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester and Aria Entertainment has today announced the first three in-house productions of an ambitious and diverse 2018: The world premiere of new …
Coriolanus may not be the most frequently staged of Shakespeare's political Roman dramas although it nearly always gets included when a series of them are run together as here with the lates…
Captain Agnes Bennett (Safron Beck) is very efficient at her job. As a Army Notification Officer, it is her duty to personally meet with relatives whose family have died while in active serv…
James Graham has turned his attention to national greed and our addiction to TV game shows for his latest factional stage play, Quiz, which opened last night on the Minerva stage at Chichest…
West End musical theatre group, The Barricade Boys, have announced a massive line-up of guest stars for their limited Christmas Cabaret season, which runs at London’s The Other Palace …
Directed by Simon Godwin, the domestic comedy drama sets up an immediately recognisable scenario in which a repressed, dysfunctional family come together for the ritual of Christmas Day.
Asides from the contemporary setting, the one thing that sets the NYT production apart from others is the sheer energy that all the performers exhibit. While allusions to West Side Story may…
A satire that managed to predict just how powerful a tool populist anger can be when leveraged effectively, it is transformed into the immersive bustle of a TV studio, that of UBS Evening Ne…
Network is enthralling, interpreting a strange story in a slick, fast-moving production that manages to reveal the media's rather shallow relationship with truth and makes profound statement…
On a night when the big West End opening of the evening is an absolute testosterone-fest, it is rather gratifying to see people actually doing something about it, to try and start to redress…
Tabula Rasa at the Traverse is a collaboration between Scottish Ensemble and Vanishing Point that contains moments of heartfelt beauty but never coheres.
Kelsey Grammer brings gravitas and empathy to this largely bed-bound role. His decent singing voice does its best to wrest emotion from Edward's gruff Southern accent but on boisterous songs…
Have you seen the musical that gave us the Christmas single Mistletoe and Wine? The Little Match Girl, based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic short story, gets a major London revival thi…
Have you booked yet for Jonathan O'Boyle's Troupe Theatre production of JM Barrie's rarely performed 1917 play Dear Brutus, starting performances at London's Southwark later this month? Have…
An anguishing set of circumstances have brought a separated couple back together " temporarily " after nine years without having set eyes upon each other. For it was nine years ago that thei…
Obviously, the choice to stage David Mamet's ode to toxic masculinity Glengarry Glen Ross was made long before the hashtag #MeToo shattered the blinkers of anyone unaware of what men have be…
'I really relate to Themba coming from a place that is different and finding himself here in Cardiff. My mum is mixed race. Her mum was from Yorkshire and her dad was from Barbados.'
At one time Billy Haines, the subject of Claudio Macor's play, The Tailor-Made Man, was as big as Clark Gable, Ramon Novarro and Montgomery Clift (look 'em up if the names mean nothing to yo…
