The London Fringe has been diligent in ploughing back catalogue after back catalogue for 'forgotten' musicals, and Maggie May has not been seen in London for 55 years.
One of the best things about Admissions at Trafalgar Studios is how far it will get up the noses of the 'woke' twitterati. I can think of a couple of agenda-toting print critics who'll also …
At last, Rufus Norris' National Theatre has come of age. Breathtaking, brave and brilliantly acted, Downstate is a landmark play. It's listed as a 'collaboration' between NT and Steppenwolf,…
The Phlebotomist is an exceptional concept for a 'first play' and Hampstead has made a real discovery in Ella Road and partnered her script with Sam Yates' slick direction.
Maybe in a far-off dimension of time and space, at the crossroads of imagination and reality, our descendants will discover a stage adaption of The Twilight Zone which will fill them with th…
With technically excellent 360 degree projection and sound, and some smart and crisp choreography from the passionate cast, Gingerline's The Great Expedition is a truly enjoyable, immersive …
Trouble is, engagement needs a theme, and while A Midnight Visit is entirely Poe-faced with references to Edgar Allan's works, you'd need more than a passing familiarity with both Fall of th…
Old Spice: If you couldn't obtain/afford/be bothered to get tickets for the Spice Girls' re-re-reunion, Denim The Reunion Tour may just be the very thing you've been waiting for.
I'd been looking forward to The Simon & Garfunkel Story thinking how much this was the music of my coming of age years " but it's funny what tricks your memory plays.
I wonder if in years to come we'll look back on the 'Theatre of Brexit' in the same way we analyse Shakespeare's treatment of Agincourt, or the Trojan Wars in Sophocles?
It's always a pleasure to hear an untold story. In Billy Bishop Goes to War we learn about a baby-faced Canadian teenager who by a string of lucky chances became the world's most decorated f…
The best interaction in Honour at the Park Theatre is between Imogen Stubbs and Katie Brayben, largely very convincing as the sharp journalist and they trade some good points about agency an…
Soldier On is a brave enterprise of the Soldiers' Arts Academy charity which helps rehabilitate ex-service people through involvement with theatre, and this excellent company is part-militar…
I love a bit of immersive interactive theatre shiz: The Grift at Bethnal Green's Town Hall Hotel was last year's big winner imported from San Diego. Now from Canada comes Talk is Free Theatr…
I'm fairly sure the land on which the Bridge Theatre was built was once a plague pit, but I'm beginning to wonder if the place isn't itself cursed. How else can it commission a play by Three…
The madwoman playing the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor is Sarah Tynan " ENO's most popular soprano, in her debut in this bel canto role. Tynan is undoubtedly the best actress on the mode…
Robert Icke's conversational, documentary production of The Wild Duck at the Almeida Theatre makes this complex morality play immediately accessible.
Now listen carefully' says the wonderful Gareth Snook, hosting the proceedings as 75-year-old chorus girl Dora Chance in Emma Rice's Wise Children, 'or it's going to be a long evening'.
It would be hard to imagine a play about young gay lives that speaks more eloquently to older gay men than the moving, informative and often hilarious The Inheritance now transferred to the …
English National Opera celebrates 50 years at the Coliseum with a grandstanding production of Porgy & Bess, the first in its history.
Plays for poor theatre: in Brexit Britain, once we're reduced to eating rats whilst clutching our blue passports, a Shakespeare mashup may seem like a doubly good idea " patriotic and econom…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is an extremely good piece, but its failure to be even edgier an…
Mike Leigh's genius was to offer Abigail's Party to audiences who roared with laughter without recognising themselves on the stage. Julie Burchill and Jane Robins may have pulled off the sam…
Still in development by the enterprising curious directive company " Gastronomic, at Theatre Royal Norwich's black box Stage Two is already on its way to a firm handshake from Paul Hollywood.
I wonder if a new genre is forming in musical theatre? Let's call it 'cartoon rock' " because products like Eugenius!, Six and Knights of the Rose have little in common with the canons of Ll…