I was originally compelled to write it after seeing the park beneath my window being massacred by developers and then watching them demolish my home. But since Grenfell I've updated the scri…
Looking for something for the weekend? Just two performances left to catch the premiere of Ian Dixon Potter's The Test, the latest offering from Golden Age Theatre Company, which finishes it…
Nicole Espinoza and Jaime Lorca aided by puppetry put on this abridged, Spanish language version of Othello. It focuses on Act 4 onwards where Iago plots the demise of Cassio.
This is not just a musical for Take That groupies; it's a musical for anybody who grew up with a boyband. The Band celebrates the music of Take That and so much more besides. It's littered w…
From dark comedy to lip-sync, Shakespearean cabaret to rap, Maiden Speech is a new and exciting feminist theatre festival featuring a varied selection of original works exploring feminism to…
In David Storey's The March of Russia, Up in Arms find a source of such acutely observed family, domestic pain and political pertinence as to set the heart racing afresh.
Casting has been announced for the second production of Jermyn Street Theatre's autumn ESCAPE Season. Alice Hamilton directs the world premiere of Judith Burnley's Anything That Flies, starr…
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Hershey Felder's one-man show wonderfully blends the music of Tchaikovsky with his life story to create a strong biography.
Producer Mark Goucher follow The Dresser with another Ronald Harwood play, The Dresser, starring Paul Nicholas, Wendi Peters, Sue Holderness and Jeff Rawle at Cheltenham and on tour.
Heartwarming debut play about young teen love is very good fun, if a bit slender and insubstantial.
British screen stars James Norton and Imogen Poots will star in the UK premiere of American playwright Amy Herzog's acclaimed play Belleville at London's Donmar Warehouse. The production, di…
Prior to its international tour in 2018, award-winning choreographer Jasmin Vardimon's adaptation of the classic fairy tale Pinocchio returns to Sadler's Wells this October
This autumn the National Theatre stages the world-premiere of Network, Lee Hall's new adaptation of the Oscar-winning film by Paddy Chayefsky. Directed by Ivo van Hove, the cast includes …
I always find it fascinating to watch how the critical community deals with a play that becomes a big success. The overnight rush to acclaim genius, the enthusiasm with which some greet it, …
Our compere for the evening was the ridiculously hilarious Samuel J Holmes who delivered gag after gag and was his own stand-up act between performers.
Jamie Wilson and Gavin Kalin are delighted to announce that Claire Sweeney will take over the role of 'Irene' in the national tour of the Watermill Theatre's acclaimed production of Crazy Fo…
Julian Clary and James Nelson-Joyce star in Stephen Clark's intense and gripping drama that lacks in purpose and direction.
Pete Gibson is an actor based in the North West. He will be playing Douglas Adams in Mark Griffiths' new play We Apologise for the Inconvenience.
Claire Price and Zubin Varla star in the UK premiere of Dutch hit play Poison at London's Orange Tree Theatre in November.
Some time in the past, there is an island of disparate peoples happily carrying on with their lives. Each group has its own rules, traditions and customs.
It seems everyone has a first memory of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Mine, in typical style is mildly embarrassing and reveals me to be the uncultured swine I so often am. It was my third yea…
Gavin Spokes stars as Charles Ingram, 'the coughing major', in James Graham's new play Quiz, based on Ingram's famous cheat on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Full cast is announced for the C…
What I found particularly pleasing was that The Band actually proves an engaging and entertaining piece of theatre, one that has clearly thought about the jukebox form and how it might be pl…
Fresh from two sold-out, extended-by-public-demand seasons in Auckland, Pop-up Globe finds an ideal home in arts capital Melbourne. Perched on the hill at Royal Botanic Gardens, the impressi…