There are returns to the material that has justly made her reputation. Her impassioned take on Cilla Black's swinging 'Anyone Who Had a Heart' remains an absolute joy and a full-throated ren…
David Eldridge's latest play BEGINNING transfers from the National Theatre to the West End's Ambassadors Theatre for a ten-week season in the new year. It will be the first production in the…
With Stage Review's editor, Anne Cox, still too traumatised from seeing the film as a teenager more than 40 years ago (yes, it's true " ed), I was packed off, with nerves of steel and crucif…
Further casting has been announced for Kirk Jameson’s highly anticipated Off-West End revival of Peter Nichols’ Olivier Award-winning PRIVATES ON PARADE at the Union Theatr…
Small is beautiful. And that is because two-handers can sometimes reach parts that other, bigger, plays fail to touch. This is certainly the case with Stewart Pringle's Trestle.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 5 December 2017 at London's Southwark Playhouse, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to director Jonathan O'Boyle and his Tr…
Katie Mitchell's production of Donizetti's opera is revived at the Royal Opera House. But what have critics had to say about it?
If you know anything about pre-war Berlin it is that it was known for its hedonism and excess. Weimar Berlin was the uninhibited party capital of Europe, offering every perversion, debaucher…
Love London Love Culture spoke to Simon Pittman about his production of Othello now playing at the Ambassadors Theatre as part of The National Youth Theatre's West End REP season.
Enough of stories about men getting women half their age, it is time to redress the balance. Stronger roles for older women, a reappraisal of the sexual dynamic that dominates the cultural d…
Devil You Know theatre company director Paul Tomlinson describes his setting as 'post apocalyptic' and certainly Peckham's Bussey building lends itself to such a concept.
st as playwright James Graham has made a name with plays based on recent real events with a political dimension, similarly, a recurring theme within Terry Johnson's oeuvre is the untold stor…
Matilda Velevitch's superb writing, skilfully interpreted by these fantastic actors, have created exquisitely observed characters, about three individual women who have the resilience to sel…
This 1960's set production of Shakespeare's chilling play has some good ideas " but sadly it doesn't quite come together in the way it should.
Overall, the production was brilliant fun. The children will love it and there is enough there to keep the adults amused for an hour!
The desperation of the characters is palpable largely to a perfect set designed by Jan Versweyweld; a blank cold white box with the characters observed like rats trapped in a box.
The Bridge Theatre is a lovely new toy for theatreland. Firstly, its location is spectacular - the views of London are glorious and next summer it will make for many a delightful pre-theatre…
Set over a long night of the soul for the employees of a payday loans company, Kieran Lynn's play The Trap is described as "a biting new comedy". And for once, it does actually provide a fai…
Some of the most viscerally shattering productions I've seen in recent years have turned up at the tiny Gate Theatre, Notting Hill. Magali Mougel's Suzy Storck is no exception.
Caroline Leslie's direction allows for scenes to seamlessly alternate between that of military attack to a music-hall comedy sketch.
Harry Potter satire burns bright — new play about storytelling examines a children’s book craze.
Nativity remains a beautifully heart-warming story and if anything, has even more of a feelgood factor about it through all the liveness of this production.
Matthew Parker has announced the spring season in his fully curated year of shows at The Hope Theatre, an award-winning performance space in North London. The year features a mix of new writ…
Director Paul Tomlinson employs a post-apocalyptic, urban landscape of crumbling buildings and waste more akin to The Walking Dead than Dunsinane.
The Slaves of Solitude is set in the winter of 1943. We are in the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, in Henley-on-Thames.