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REVIEW: Richard III, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭

Shakespeare's vision and insight into the psychology of schizophrenic megalomania was never more potent than it is in Richard III. Jamie Lloyd's production d…

REVIEW: Medea, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

McCrory achieves that almost impossible feat - she makes you understand, care for and empathise with Medea's situation. You feel her pain and fear and disgus…

REVIEW: Marry Me A Little, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is engaging musical theatre at its most optimistic: marrying talented singers with clever lyrics and tunes to create a wholly new experience. Bravo to a…

REVIEW: The Nether, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭

At ninety minutes, it's worthwhile time in the theatre. But better casting would have resulted in an experience that might have matched Es Devlin's extraordi…

REVIEW: Great Britain, Lyttleton Theatre ✭✭

Because there is no coherent overall style, the audience is left uncertain what it is watching and why. It's a pity, really, because there are so many good a…

REVIEW: Forbidden Broadway, Menier Chocolate Factory ✭✭✭

This is a very good time at the theatre - but it does partly depend upon an intimate knowledge of Musicals of recent years and the stars who made them popula…

Teaser trailer for Into The Woods Movie Released

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A Beginner's Guide To Dogfight The Musical

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REVIEW: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies, Aldwych Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

In most respects, it is better and more vibrant, more deftly detailed, than it was in Stratford Upon Avon. It's an unrivalled spectacle of theatrical ingenui…

REVIEW: Dessa Rose, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭

This is a terrifically mature presentation of a difficult, but eminently attractive, and entertaining, piece of musical theatre. It is Keates' best work to d…

Bakersfield Mist Announces Early Closure

John Kander receives National Medal Of Arts

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Forbidden Broadway announces West End Transfer

Rabbit Hole Postpones West End Run

New trailer for The Crucible with Richard Armitage released.

REVIEW: Miss Julie, Minerva Theatre ✭✭

Somewhat incredulously, the companion piece in this double bill, Black Comedy, an entertainment written purely for pleasure, really tells us more about sexua…

REVIEW: Black Comedy, Minerva Theatre, Chichester ✭✭✭✭

It's a smorgasbord of pratfalls and physical comedy...And a lot of it is genuinely funny, rip-roaring in fact.

REVIEW: Fathers and Sons, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭

There used to be a TV soap called Sons and Daughters and this production of Fathers and Sons felt more like some historical episodes of that series than a th…

REVIEW: Amadeus, Chichester Festival Theatre ✭✭✭

The production has much to recommend it. It's never dull, it's beautiful to look at and watch and the writing has not lost any of its joy

REVIEW: Perserverance Drive, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭

Nothing much that happens is surprising or even that interesting, except that this is an entirely black Church family. And, in that one way, it sparkles with…

An amazing acappella medley for Wicked fans

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Craige Els is Matilda's new Trunchbull

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John Godber's April in Paris starts National Tour tonight!

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REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Globe Theatre ✭✭✭

This is not a production where you sit and watch and the outcome is determined for you; no, it's a production where your mood and the mood of those around yo…

The Bodyguard announces tour of UK and Ireland

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Spamalot announces 2015 UK Tour

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REVIEW: Pacific Overtures, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is as good a production of Pacific Overtures as anyone is likely to see. It's well cast, mostly well sung, beautifully, almost hypnotically, staged, ful…

REVIEW: The Importance Of Being Earnest, Harold Pinter Theatre (0 Stars)

Lucy Bailey has presided over a fraud - this is not Wilde's play and it doesn't pretend to be when you are in your expensive seat. But to lure you to pay for…

REVIEW: Intimate Apparel, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is a play that is both functional and delicate, necessary and yet slightly exotic, lovingly crafted and sumptuous to experience. And like all gorgeous i…

First look production footage from Shakespeare In Love

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REVIEW: Annie Get Your Gun, Churchill Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is first-rate family entertainment. This Annie is a great night in the theatre and comes highly recommended.

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Ghost stories extends to Jan 2015

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Almeida announces casting for Little Revolution

The Almeida Theatre has today announced casting for the world premiere of Alecky Blythe’s new play Little Revolution inspired by the 2011 London riots, direc…

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Skylight Recoups Investment in Five Weeks

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Elaine Stritch passes away at 89

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New Miss Saigon Trailer Released

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REVIEW: Fathers and Sons, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭

With a striking wood-plank set by Rob Howell and brooding music by Alex Baranowski, this is a sharp and compelling production about families and the need for…

Jersey Boys - UK and Irish Tour Cast Announced

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REVIEW: Kristin Chenoweth, Royal Albert Hall ✭✭✭✭✭

From the cries of "We love you" from the audience, the feeling was clearly reciprocated.

Jenna Russell and Jonathan Slinger headline Apollo transfer for Urinetown

REVIEW: Titus Andronicus, Globe Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Its great stuff and easily the best production Bailey has helmed. No wonder it had a return season. It’s a great production of a Shakespeare text that is not…

REVIEW: Mr Burns, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭

The performances are uniformly terrific. Especially excellent were the wonderful Wunmi Mosaku, Jenna Russell, Justine Mitchell and Michael Shaeffer – and Dem…

REVIEW: Shakespeare In Love, Noel Coward Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It is difficult to recall, at least over the course of the last seven years, a commercial production of a new play which has opened directly in the West End …

Shakespeare in Love - First Look Photos

Cats comes to the London Palladium for Christmas

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REVIEW: Carousel, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

I would see it again and again if I could. It's an amazing achievement on a tiny budget; with proper support it could run for ages. It's better than many Wes…

Phone hacking play gets West End transfer

REVIEW: The Crucible, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Farber makes no mistakes in casting, design, pace, tone or intensity, with the result that the play throbs with vitality, is both visceral and sensuous and, …

Urinetown Transfers to West End in September