I like Six because it is short, the costumes look amazing, it focuses on female talent from the six leading queens to the backing band and it has a range of songs and talent rarely seen in m…
Kathy Rucker's DARLING, inspired by a true story about an American "catfishing" scam, receives its world premiere tonight at London's Hope Theatre. Check out our first-look gallery of produc…
What works so well about this musical is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. The whole thing is melodramatic and larger than life.
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Hampstead Theatre's revival of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Night, Mother, now running until 4 December 202…
This GBM Productions musical version of DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover originally had a limited run at the Shaftesbury Theatre but has now been given a digital revival by Stream.Theat…
The birth of a new star is always a source of theatrical excitement, and it's been a while since we've seen a professional debut as impressive as that of Abigail Weinstock.
As five conspiratorial servants potter around the stage before the show proper, we know this is going to be no typical Jane Austen adaptation. This is Pride and Prejudice as you never knew i…
Broadway musical Mrs Doubtfire will get its UK premiere next year. Producers have confirmed the screen-to-stage hit will have a strictly limited season at the Manchester Opera House from 2 S…
As one-woman gig economy drama Empty in Angel heads towards the final venue ofits London tour, author James Woolf tells us about the inspiration for the show, the effect of Covid on his plan…
Research proves that Christopher Marlowe not only didn't die in 1593 at the age of 29, but that he wrote the plays that made Shakespeare famous. So says author and playwright Peter B Hodges …
Saoirse Ronan makes her UK stage debut in Yael Farber's testosterone-fest, which is vivid, but much too long.
Michele Lee's Rice is a deeply ambitious play, populated by numerous characters and performed by two actors. Zainab Hassan and Sarah Lam first appear as an Indian-born executive, Nish…
Mischief Theatre and magic legends Penn and Teller have come together to form the most hilariously dangerous magic you will ever see.
Indecent Proposal, Jack Engelhard's bestselling 1988 novel which also became a blockbuster Hollywood film, has now been made into an "indecently entertaining" new British musical at London's…
Charity Case, from the same team as 2018's critically acclaimed Checkpoint Chana, receives its rescheduled world premiere at London's Drayton Arms Theatre in a strictly limited season, runni…
Witness for the Prosecution is an absolute marvel in the atmospheric surroundings of County Hall.
Dolly Parton produces the musical of 9 to 5, which tells the story of three women - Violet, Judy and Doralee (Louise Redknapp, Vivian Panka and Stephanie Chandos) who all work in a very male…
Cabaret La Clique is back in the West End this Christmas with a new show and cast in Leicester Square's mirrored Spiegeltent.
Cush Jumbo's Hamlet has been a long time in the making. In fact, what with the pandemic and the Young Vic's long lead times for shows (which allow for some serious forward planning), I booke…
Unlike the critically mauled Broadway tuner Pretty Woman, Michael Conley and Dylan Schlosberg's tangy and surprising chamber musical is only "inspired" by, as opposed to slavishly following,…
One of the three Papatango New Writing prize-winning audio plays now available to listen to at a theatre near you, Nkenna Akunna's Some of Us Exist in the Future is an ambitious piece which …
The live version of Northern Comedy Theatre's lockdown Zoom hit sees Shakespeare diced, sliced and put through the mincer at the Bridewell Theatre.
Aria Entertainment's reimagined revival of Zorro The Musical, which closed after just two previews at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre due to the pandemic in March 2020, will transfer to Londo…
The play is set in rural America, where a mother (Stockard Channing) and daughter Jessie (Rebecca Night), who has epilepsy, live together.
Peter B Hodges' Off-Broadway hit Marlowe's Fate, based on the premise that Christopher Marlowe wrote the canon credited to William Shakespeare, gets its UK premiere this month at London's Wh…