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Invited into the intimate space of Phoebe's bedroom, breathing through yoga and intoxicated with incense, a vulnerable and honest conversation is started.
Invited into the intimate space of Phoebe's bedroom, breathing through yoga and intoxicated with incense, a vulnerable and honest conversation is started.
John Heffernan takes the title role in the premiere of Rory Mullarky's new play Saint George & the Dragon, directed by Lyndsey Turner and running 4 October to 2 December 2017 at the Nat…
The Old Vic has announced full casting for Dr Seuss' THE LORAX, which returns to The Old Vic stage for a limited run from 15 October to 5 November 2017, with a press night on 24 October, pri…
Craft Theatre will present their latest production, devised on ‘Shalateger’ by Hanns Johst (Poet Laurette to the Third Reich), to Waterloo East Theatre from the 3…
"I'll be an inspirationA musical sensation"The cast recording for USHERS: The Front Of House Musical was released in advance of its 2014 run at the Charing Cross Theatre but ever the trail-b…
As rehearsals continue for the UK premiere of Tony Award-winning play OSLO, here's a glimpse of Toby Stephens, Lydia Leonard, Peter Polycarpou and the cast in the rehearsal room.
Marnie's a 22-year-old single mum from Bermondsey and every day is a fight at the moment.
Award-winning theatre company Les Enfants Terribles - whose Alice's Adventures Underground continues its current extended season at The Vaults until 23 September 2017 - have announced the fu…
Thrilling: Magician-scientist hybrid Kevin Quantum brings a show that truly seems to defy gravity to the Debating Hall of the Gilded Balloon Teviot.
Have you booked your tickets yet for the West End-bound Irish production of Waiting for Godot yet? Sixty-two years after its English-language premiere, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece returns h…
It's a road trip for Ellen Robertson and Charly Clive as they take to North America after school in the pursuit of John Hancock. He seems like as good a subject as any for their award-winnin…
Reviewing in list form: for and against Christopher Shinn's new play AGAINST, starring Ben Whishaw and Amanda Hale, at the Almeida Theatre.
Another multirole play production at the Edinburgh Fringe, this time the star is simply a sponge. Bruce the Sponge and his network of porous friends are brought to life with an extensive ran…
Against the odds, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ is an energetic, sharp and witty triumph. I say 'against the odds' because, in the over-extended franchise Olympics, Adrian Mol…
A woman falls asleep in front of the telly waiting for her teenaged son to come home. Instead, the police knocking on her door wakes her up at 3 am. Her son's fine, but he's done something s…
A 1990s musical of an 80s film - nostalgia has a lot to answer for but it was to Maltby Jr and Shires' 1996 adaptation of the Tom Hanks-starring film that producers turned for their big Chri…
Recently many of us mourned the passing of an inspiring dance teacher in Somerset by the name of Joy Tinney. Her christian named pretty much summed her and her teaching methods up perfectly.…
As the first major London revival of Barnum is announced today, American director and choreographer Shanda Sawyer talks about her own experience helming numerous circus productions for Ringl…
As fizzy as a sherbet dip, as baffling as the rules of cricket, as delightful as the finest afternoon tea, Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds' Salad Days is quite possibly the best classic Br…
I write in praise of Chichester Festival Theatre's Learning, Education and Participation (LEAP) department. Led by Dale Rooks, it reaches 800 young people and I think it is one of the best y…
Jeff Fahey, Jack Shepherd, Glynis Barber, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Powell and Gemma Jones join Martin Shaw in the first major UK production of Gore Vidal's political drama The Best Man.
The Menier Chocolate Factory will stage the first major London revival of Barnum, directed by Gordon Greenberg and running from 25 November 2017 to 3 March 2018.
A plot to murder a member of the royal family takes centre stage in the debut run of the tragic comedy Macbeth kills The Duchess.
Judicious and hilarious: There is a great deal that is hugely appealing, both in content and in assured comic performances, in Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little M…
Ambitous with a different accent: Here's something unique at the Assembly Hall, two new musicals by groups in the UK and US, linked across the Atlantic by the theme of posing the same questi…