How many plays pass the Bechdel Test? Originally featured in a comic strip, and popularised in film criticism, it simply states that to pass this test your story has to have: 1) at least two…
Peter Pan flies into Fairfield Halls this Christmas with a brand new adventure for all the family. The Further Adventures of Peter Pan: The Return of Captain Hook features a star-studded cas…
Shit-faced Showtime has returned to their London home, the Leicester Square Theatre, for their annual yuletide version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, this time A Pissedmas Carol. The…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Deafinitely Theatre, Talking Hands has been created in partnership with Paines Plough, allowing five deaf writers to share their stories of lockdown.
Liz Kingsman's One Woman Show at the Ambassadors is then more than a pot shot at Fleabag and the like, and is instead an assessment of the performative nature of female roles in popular cult…
Jack and the Beanstalk continues to play at the London Palladium until 15 January 2023. We take a look at what critics have been saying about the London Palladium's latest pantomime.
Straight to the point, don't wait until the end of this review to find out that Goldilocks & The Three Bears at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool was the best pantomime I have ever seen. Yo…
In his award-winning play, which premiered in Boston in 2011, American playwright Stephen Karam examines the issues in a thoroughly original, brilliantly constructed and thematically compell…
This is far from the only option for anyone wanting to see A Christmas Carol in London this year " but if you're looking for a performance that's intimate, funny, inventive and a little bit …
It's panto season! (Oh no it isn't, etc…) Full disclosure: I haven't seen a panto since I was a kid, and went in to the Opera House's Peter Pan frankly a little bit cynical. I'd assumed it…
We round up the reviews for the Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical starring Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
Though the title is a bit of a mouthful, Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol is an unexpectedly brilliant retelling of the Victorian tale. With Robert Bathurst as Scrooge and a liv…
This London premiere of Newsies at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre has already extended bookings until next spring and, if the ecstatic " verging on hysterical " first night reaction was any…
To celebrate the re-release of Original Theatre's critically acclaimed, on-demand online production of Into the Night: The Story of the Penlee Lifeboat, and to commemorate the 41st anniversa…
Following a successful West End engagement at the Dominion back in 2019, White Christmas has been taken on the road for the 2022 festive season. This time round, the Irving Berlin classic mu…
The Wizard of Oz is an all-time family favourite. Dorothy Gale (Abigail Coy) is swept away to the land of Oz after Kanzas is hit by a tornado. Killing the Wicked Witch of the East was never …
Stephen Karam's Sons of the Prophet at the Hampstead Theatre, first staged in 2011, makes its European debut here by starting a lot of conversations that it doesn't manage to finish.
Discover what critics have had to say about Mandela at the Young Vic Theatre, the new musical based on the life of Nelson Mandela.
Adapted by Geoff Aymer (the writer of last year's excellent production The Wonderful), with Theatre Peckham's artistic director Suzann McLean once more at the helm as director, Scroogeliciou…
Julia Pascal is a resourceful theatre-maker who is unafraid of controversy. Her interest in the relationship between the personal and the political, and sympathy with both the victims of the…
As temperatures soar below zero, the heat is definitely up at the Troubadour theatre in Wembley as the venue's long awaited production of Newsies sizzles and soars.
Reviewer: Daniel Shipman Upstaged Rating: âââââ The Royal Exchange has a solid reputation for outstanding, non-pantomime Christmas shows, and Betty (written by and s…
It's misty and cold in the Park Theatre's main auditorium. An oppressive half-light frames the stage where the tale of the lost lighthouse keepers (the 'wickies') of Eilean Mor will soon unf…
It's that time of year again (oh yes it is) where audiences flock to their local theatres to see the seasonal panto, and this year the New Victoria Theatre, Woking are providing the glitzies…
The National Theatre has quite mixed fortunes when it comes to new play commissions, some become and instant hit " like After Life and the storming success this year of Jack Absolute Flies A…