The latest theatre news, West End reviews, show guides, and behind-the-scenes features from British Theatre's editorial team.
The book is laid out like a sorta-score. There is an Overture, large chapters which form 'the key changes of (Bricusse's) life' - from A Minor to G Undiminished and a Coda. The sense of musicality is all pervading, as it should be for the man responsible for tunes such as Gold…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
Showing 24 of 49 articles
News
Crushed Shells and Mud starts well and features some wonderful performances. However, somewhere in the second half it unfortunately gets well and truly stuck.
Danny Coleman-Cooke
News & Reviews
News
The Thriller Live UK Tour continues whilst the Thriller West End production continues to shatter records. Book Now!
Douglas Mayo
News & Reviews
News
While there are more serious moments to be found in this play, especially focused on the opportunities for women in the new theatre of the 1660s, there is no…
Tim Hochstrasser
News & Reviews
News
All in all this is a revival very much deserving of support. You reward will be some genuinely fine ensemble acting and some neglected writing that you can e…
Tim Hochstrasser
News & Reviews
News
West End Heroes wisely avoided making the concert a remembrance festival; instead it was a celebration of the brilliant talent within both the military and t…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
News & Reviews
News
Lecesne has a winning charm and a cast-iron technique, so his spinning wheel presentation of a myriad of small town character types is absolutely engaging an…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
News
This is a genial, quietly satisfying set of reflections on how hard rural life can be and how mostly distant it has always been from any kind of Arcadian idy…
Tim Hochstrasser
News & Reviews
News
Stitching is an interesting and challenging play, undermined by a late twist, but still engaging. There are a number of moments which will take some people a…
Matthew Lunn
News & Reviews
News
Part Felicity Kendall, part Carol Channing, with just a soupçon of Jo Grant (The Doctor Who companion she first played about forty five years ago) and legs t…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
News
Valhalla is an intense and gripping production, which showed its class in very difficult circumstances. Whilst the ending could do with some work, it is clev…
Danny Coleman-Cooke
News & Reviews
News
It both shines a light on a corner of society which is misunderstood and unfairly vilified and, examines the rules, conventions, habits and language of a par…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
News
The Sweethearts is a truly fascinating play, and I am certain that Sarah Page has a very bright future as a playwright. The theme of heroism is particularly …
Matthew Lunn
News & Reviews
News
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
News
If you attend the theatre regularly, you will undoubtedly have encountered that rare, awful, but entirely exquisite, moment when an actor dries, a prop fails…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
News
Bricusse's output is so prodigious and so tuneful that only the tone deaf would not find lots of numbers here satisfying and delicious. Many will find somet…
Stephen Collins
News & Reviews
