A long-standing darling of the avant-garde downtown Off-Broadway theatre scene where she has her own company, Young Jean Lee is known for creating plays that are punchy, free-form and advent…
Every so often a little show comes along pretty much unheralded and without star casting that strikes a chord with audiences and critics alike, and ends up sticking around in the West End fo…
Nobody who sees this award-nominated Australian drama is likely to accuse playwright Alana Valentine of lacking ambition.
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.
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,…
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…
Disparaging somebody else's passion project is a bit like telling a doting parent that their baby is ugly. This stage tribute to Art Nouveau darling Ida Rubinstein is one such endeavour.
A musical that riffs on Shakespeare while plundering the back catalogue of one of the most successful and prolific songwriters in pop history (Max Martin, who is only not a household name be…
One of the Urban Dictionary definitions of "nasty" is a word to describe something that is ridiculously good. Between that and the more traditional meaning of the word, I have no hesitation …
Written and premiered in the early 1940s while WW2 raged on and the prospect of losing a precious loved one at short notice felt like a very real possibility, Noël Coward's ghostly comedy…
Jonathan O'Boyle's inspired actor-musician take on Jason Robert Brown's song cycle-cum-musical felt like an eye-opening reinvention of a fascinating but conflicted piece (one half of the doo…
First presented at the Royal Court in 1976 and last seen in London in a starry 2008 revival directed by the author, Peter Gill's knotty, elegiac text is a dense, tense jumble of memory play,…
Highly recommended, but I wouldn't bank on getting a good nights sleep afterwards. Evil in plain sight is a real chiller, and that's exactly what Wohl is serving up here. Disconcerting, esse…
Educational and richly entertaining, NW Trilogy emerges, in Taio Lawson and Susie McKenna's vibrant production as a sparky, moving valentine to what is traditionally one of the capital's mos…
This may be a sweeping statement, but if you're not profoundly affected by Indecent, Paula Vogel's provocatively titled powder keg of a play, as staged here in Rebecca Taichman's Tony Award-…
Andrew Lloyd Webber may have composed better scores than his new Cinderella, but he has certainly never created anything camper, and no, I haven't forgotten Sunset Boulevard. This collaborat…
British Theatre Academy's 13 proves to be an upbeat piece of musical theatre that could well prove a calling card into the industry for enthusiastic young people on both sides of the footlig…