Jordan Hall's multi-award-winning Canadian comedy, in a smart staging by Proud Haddock artistic director Jimmy Walters, is so engaging you don't really need a glass of overpriced wine to enh…
Through the decades, three families try to navigate their way through an ever-changing environment for Talawa Theatre in Archie Maddocks' new play.
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Lidless Theatre's tenth-anniversary revival of Philip Ridley's …
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Polly Findlay's European premiere production of White Noise, by Pulitzer Prize-winning US playwright Suzan Lori-Parks.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released details of its Spring 2022 activity including Shakespeare returning to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre stage and the announcement of a ground-b…
Previews begin at the end of this week for the world premiere musical makeover of Indecent Proposal, the novel made famous by the 1993 Hollywood film. What's been happening in rehearsals? Ch…
New comedy Holier Than Thou, marking the London debut of young theatre company Freaky Geese, gets its full-length premiere next month at the Canal Cafe Theatre.
Based on the American Gothic novel by Washington Irving, which was first published in 1819, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been adapted for the stage by Tilted Wig Productions in this highl…
I want to start by saying how happy I am to be back reviewing musical theatre. How happy I am the big tours are back and how overjoyed I was to be back in my home turf of the Wales Millenniu…
Full cast and creatives have now been announced for the world premiere of Kathy Rucker's DARLING, which gets its world premiere at London's Hope Theatre in a limited season from 9 to 27 Nove…
After two stints at London's Lion & Unicorn Theatre, a slew of four-star reviews and an Offies nomination for Best New Play, Proforca Theatre's premiere of James Lewis' latest play Latel…
Martin McDonagh's black comedy piece, co-produced by Chichester Festival Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith, proves to be a deeper exploration of family conflict and secrets than his The Lieu…
Beth Underdown's debut novel The Witchfinder's Sister, now adapted for the stage by Vickie Donoghue, gives a voice to a possible sister of Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins and interrogate…
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the Almeida Theatre's new production of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth. It stars James McArdle and Saoirse Ronan, dir…
As soon as the title number's patter chorus kicks in, there's a smile on every face at the Barbican Centre, where Cole Porter's Broadway classic Anything Goes runs until 6 November 2021.
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion following the performance of Mercurius Theatre's revival of Anton Chekhov's Vaudevilles, ada…
A new piece from Matthew Bourne is always a talking point and a treat to get dance fans excited. I've been a fan for around a decade now.
I was surprised when I discovered this is Robert Boulton's debut play as a playwright, as there is a confidence and natural dark humour I'd associate with a more experienced writer.
Bess Wohl's history play is an imaginatively-written, brilliantly chilling and resonant account of life at a Nazi summer camp, starring Patsy Ferran and Luke Thallon.
In this one-woman show, writer and performer Beth Burrows fascinates her audience even as she exposes some of the flaws of her famous male subjects: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatr…
Last night NY based producer Megan Schadler and I were guest panelists on the New York based Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU), founded and led by Bob Ost. 40 experienced Broadway, off Broad…
Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a post-show discussion for the London premiere of The Tragedy of Dorian Gray, Blue Devil Theatre's updating of Oscar Wilde's classic, at the Drayton Ar…
Based on the true story of one of America's most controversial trials, Tokyo Rose is a new musical written by Maryhee Yoon and Cara Baldwin, directed by Hannah Benson, and performed by an al…
God, teenagers. Don't you just want to shake them sometimes? Scream at them that their lives are a marathon, not a sprint.
Maximus Polling reprises his titular performance as the ever-youthful Dorian in Blue Devil Theatre's award-winning adaptation, transferring to Drayton Arms Theatre from 19 October.