News & Reviews

REVIEW: Strange Interlude, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Godwin's sensational production will be long remembered - chiefly for being exactly what The National Theatre should be about all the time: first rate produc…

REVIEW: Barnum, Chichester Festival Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

A triumph - in almost every way...On the basis of tonight, it is a five star hit, which should transfer to the Palladium and play for a long time.

REVIEW: Titanic, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

This is a thoroughly engaging production with many highs and real drama at play - and the music makes you float through the passages where the vocal work doe…

REVIEW: Billy Budd, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭

A wasted opportunity, especially given the presence of Archer and McArthur.

REVIEW: The Sound Of Music, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre ✭✭✭✭

No matter what one might have thought about The Sound of Music before, what Kavanaugh achieves here, with a gobsmackingly good cast, redefines it, giving it …

INTERVIEW: Dana P Rowe, Composer Of The Fix

There is nothing quite like when John and I get together because of the vast history we share. We write well and quickly together; there's no fluff to dig th…

REVIEW: The Drowned Man - A Hollywood Fable ✭✭✭✭✭

Punchdrunk, since forming in 2000, have unabashedly muddied the theatrical waters and, in this mega collaboration with The National Theatre, have redefined t…

REVIEW: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane ✭✭✭✭

It is an absolute sensation - guaranteed to restore and replenish your inner child and to restore your faith in the concept of the good old fashioned musical.

REVIEW: Deconstructing Broadway, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

For any musical theatre fan, this is a night of sheer bliss. For anyone else it’s a night of comedy gold.

INTERVIEW: Seth Rudetsky

REVIEW: Patti LuPone, Leicester Square Theatre, ✭✭✭✭✭

If ecstasy were a fragrance the air would be rich with it, seeping from the overjoyed auditorium

Broadway Interview - Telly Leung

Emily Hardy chats to Glee’s Telly Leung about his show at the London Hippodrome, Rent, Godspell, Allegiance, and life as a musical theatre performer on Broad…

Broadway Interview - Jason Ralph

I was a real goth kid at school and my mum was terrified of all my friends. She really pushed me in the direction of theatre. I found out later that she had …

REVIEW: The Universal Machine, New Diorama Theatre ✭✭✭

Richard Delaney is striking in the complex role of Turing, capturing his being both physically and in brief moments of song. The composers have chosen to all…

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News & Reviews

REVIEW: Kinky Boots, Al Hirschfeld Theatre ✭✭✭

Billy Porter is wonderful as the cross-dressing Lola, funny and fragile, but one vaguely wonders whether his voice will last the distance. The performance of…

INTERVIEW: Declan Donnellan

REVIEW: Once, Phoenix Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

This version of Once aches with a rawness, a shuddering and tremulous intensity that is almost unbearable to endure, so true, brave and intense are the perfo…

REVIEW: The Audience, Gielgud Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, starring Helen Mirren and directed by Stephen Daldry, is one of those rare theatrical experiences which embraces and d…

REVIEW: The Judas Kiss, Duke Of Yorks ✭✭✭✭

Neil Armfield's glorious revival of David Hare's masterpiece about the torments, triumphs and tragedy of Oscar Wilde's last years, The Judas Kiss, is spellbi…

REVIEW: Versailles, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭

This is the sort of play the Donmar is famous for. An instant classic.

REVIEW: Feathers in the Snow, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Ridley creates a world of conditioning, fear, faith, sacrifice, freedom, jubilation, strength, weakness, love and hate. It’s all there.

INTERVIEW: Philip Ridley, Telling Stories

REVIEW: Rent, Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭✭

In this production, the creative team and cast have clarified Jonathan Larson’s message. By returning to the Broadway roots, recreating the ambiance of the b…

REVIEW: Tender Napalm, Southwark Playhouse ★★★★★

Tender Naplam is a Ridlean treat; haunting, terrifying and uplifting. You will most likely not hear a more exquisite play, nor see two more compelling perfo…

INTERVIEW: Jez Bond on The Park Theatre

JBR talks to the energetic and passionate Jez Bond, about his ambitious plans for a new venue in Finsbury Park

TALES FROM THE DRESSING ROOM : Penelope Keith

INTERVIEW: Playwright Ella Hickson

Ella Hickson made her name at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008 with her play Eight, picking up a Fringe First. Her second play transfers to London.

INTERVIEW: Leslie Jordan - Walking Down The Pink Carpet

Review: The Rivals – Theatre Royal Haymarket ✭✭✭

With Peter Bowles and Penelope Keith in the roles, the chemistry between them is positively infectious as the gently flirt their way through the proceedings.

REVIEW: When We Are Married – Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭

When a company is having this much fun, the audience are merely there to help them ride the wave.

INTERVIEW: Martin Harvey - Dirty Dancing

INTERVIEW: Hannah Vassallo - Dirty Danciing

INTERVIEW: Robert Lindsay Lets Go

INTERVIEW: Sheridan Smith is "Giving it some Elle"