Turbine theatre, LondonSophie Golby and Tom West stray too far from home in their soft-rock musical about the 2015 Paris terror attacks, let down by repetitive numbers with tourist-board lyr…
Arts theatre, LondonThis tale about the partners in crime is unsure of the point it's trying to make but the cast hurl themselves in with winning enthusiasm A note for anyone unfamiliar with…
Theatre Royal, BathOn a spectacular set creating Nosferatu-like shadows, Keith Allen expertly negotiates patriarch Max's rapid turns in a bleakly humorous production exploring relationships …
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe playwright's relationship with Kenneth Halliwell is given new clarity in a play that is both hilarious and chilling 'I've high hopes of dying young," announc…
American actor and singer who played Major Margaret Houlihan " 'Hot Lips' " in the 1970 film M*A*S*HWomen in M*A*S*H (1970), Robert Altman's boisterous comedy about a mobile army hospital du…
Theatre Royal, BathThere are nice slapstick set-pieces but this two-hander loses any sense of marital crisis and has perfunctory sitcom gags If Terry and June had wrestled with ennui, the re…
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonThe staging and writing zing nicely as an ensemble cast convincingly struggle to hold on to their youth by sleeping around, sexting and experimenting with throup…
Theatre Royal, BrightonThe 1987 revenge movie returns as a play, with Kym Marsh starring as a blandly monstrous 'bunny boiler' spurned by her married lover Lock up your rabbits! The 1987 thr…
As we head into Christmas, actors who have tackled the son of god " from the trans woman who caused outrage in Glasgow to the weed-smoking Black Jesus " relive the role When the comic actor …
This spin on The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway hit in the 70s and became a film with Diana Ross. Now, the tale of Black joy takes Dorothy from a Manchester tower block and BLM protests to the …
Above the Stag, LondonThe gags come thick and fast in this bawdy adult panto, which is set in a funeral parlour and channels Joe Orton Who loves Dick? It's hard not to in the bawdy adult pan…
Arts theatre, LondonThis lads-together jukebox show is well sung and should go down well with office outings, but the synthetic bonhomie has a strangely cultish feel Welcome to The Jungle, t…
Barbican, LondonThis anarchic discourse on the power of the e-commerce giant takes place behind a plastic curtain, as fresh produce gets annihilated "Your package will arrive in 60 minutes,"…
He was adored as Geoffrey the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Now, as he stars opposite Cush Jumbo in Hamlet, the actor discusses stardom, being one of the first Black Othellos " and …
Ambassadors theatre, LondonIan Shaw plays his film star father Robert in this behind-the-scenes tale of Steven Spielberg's blockbuster In the waters off Martha's Vineyard in 1974, three men …
Above the Stag, LondonAn illicit affair blossoms around a Victorian London park in this gentle comedy from the creator of Taggart It is 1850s south London and the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens i…
How do you turn hit musicals like Everybody's Talking About Jamie and Dear Evan Hansen into films? You axe songs, throw out plots and don't worry about anyone's favourite bit Choosing a stag…
Theatre Royal BathKelly is the raging old stager and Clary his pomposity-puncturing assistant in Ronald Harwood's perennial favourite Any play that contains a show-must-go-on message is boun…
Fire up the DeLorean! The Desperate Housewives actor is playing the time-travelling scientist in the Back to the Future musical " now he can finally sing in Christopher Lloyd's accent Great…
Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage " or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny Girls In the late 1950…
Dominic Monaghan has starred in Lord of the Rings and Lost. But neither compare to the joys of gardening in LA " and raising deadly creatures To be part of one cultural phenomenon could be c…
The pandemic inspired many works of art but two furious, turbulent plays written at its onset still tower over the rest. As both return, we explore their enduring power On 3 July 1981, a sin…
The French director and dramatist reveals how he pushed Hopkins into giving one of the most wrenching performances of his career in an unflinching dementia drama also starring Olivia Colman …
As he publishes a moving memoir, the comedian and Bake Off contestant tormentor talks about homophobic heckles, still living with his parents " and why he's never been in love In a deserted …
The creator of the cult show is not going quietly into his 70s. He talks about coming out as trans, going 'loopy' on crack " and speaking in tongues after suffering a stroke Richard O'Brien …