Atmospheric, menacing, hypnotic and beautifully danced, Rambert Dance stormed into Hull New Theatre in Peaky Blinders The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. A Rambert production in association wit…
Jude Christian's new production of Shakespeare's least reputable play, Titus Andronicus, has an all-female cast telling us immediately that perceptions of power will be tested to destruction…
Thoroughly disproving the law of diminishing returns, Mary Poppins soars again as the current Australian revival tour brings everyone's favourite nanny back to her spiritual home at Her Maje…
Culture which arrives from the margins to the mainstream is a classic phenomenon. In the case of Sam Steiner's Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons it has taken almost a decade for this two-ha…
A Complicite show is event theatre. Previous works such as A Disappearing Number, An Encounter and The Master and Margarita are locked in a pantheon of the great works of my lifetime. So, it…
The subject of Aoife Kennan's Scratches is a tough one for many reasons " one of which is that, for very good reasons, she can't actually talk openly about it. And so a sort of code develops…
If there was ever a cure for the blues The Cher Show would be it. I left feeling on cloud nine after an evening spent watching this sequinned spectacular which tells the story of how shy gir…
One of the London stage hits of the immediate post-pandemic period, 2.22 A Ghost Story opened with a big gala night in its new home. The big attraction on this occasion is the West End debut…
Post-pandemic, Anita Luna THE DIVA is no longer the tomboy daring to be a diva, she has fully embraced her diva status, and audiences can see how and why in her latest show Full of Shit, run…
Let's start off by saying that this show My Son's a Queer (But what can you do?) at the Ambassadors Theatre is the most joyous and heartfelt 75 minutes I've maybe ever experienced in the the…
"Words, words, words," Eliza Doolittle was sick of them particularly as empty descriptions of the love she wanted a practical demonstration of. Sam Steiner's play Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lem…
This is the sort of fare that might have run for years on Shaftesbury Avenue in the mid- 20th century and, despite references to Brexit and the internet, and the use of mobile phones, We'll …
Ever been to a queer club? You know, drag cabaret night at Madame Jojo's, or the Black Cap or Her Upstairs. No? Well, not to worry " the Royal Court's latest provides a fabulously extravagan…
Nellie Bly (1864-1922, played by writer/performer Katie Overstall) is set for an adventure, and she doesn't want to be stuck writing on her newspaper's gossip column. Inspired by the …
Find out what is being said about the 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn's comedy Noises Off at London's Phoenix Theatre with our review round up.
Ever since Covid's early days pioneering company Threedumb Theatre has developed and sustained the idea of the one shot livestream; this is unedited and raw but captures much of the spontane…
In a week where a petition to remove LGBTQ+ education from the primary school curriculum has reached the threshold for a parliamentary debate, you will struggle to find a more relevant piece…
Grandeous narcissistic behaviour is central to the performance throughout Picasso, which brings the world renowned artist Pablo Picasso to life in the production currently playing at the Pla…
As someone who always wanted to learn to dance (but never have really had the confidence to), Dirty Dancing was always a film that I have particularly enjoyed " mesmerised as much by the fab…
Project Atom Boi follows the story of Yuanzi (Xiaonan Wang), a doomer who, pressured by a self-indulgent Filmmaker (Francesca Marcolina), starts re-exploring the memories of her childhood in…
This vibrant, vicious, violent, and vivacious two-hour adaptation by Scott Graham and Simon Hoggett for Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith places Othello in a land of gangs, drugs, an…
Noises Off at the Phoenix Theatre is a fast-paced show that still demands an enormously skilled and precise technical performance from every member of its cast and Lindsay Posner's team make…
Liza Pulman's show is as much a musical education as it is an entertaining and gentle evening of entertainment. Filled with warmth and passion, it is always a treat to listen to Liza Pulman …
Nicolas Billon's The Elephant Song at the Park Theatre takes us through a game of cat and mouse as Dr Greenberg tries to talk resident Michael into revealing the information he has. Michael,…
As it turns out, Jemma Kahn's We Didn't Come To Hell For The Croissants, the South African, multi-authored one woman riff on the Seven Deadly Sins, offers rather more than just a whimsical c…