Theatre News & Reviews: 2016

Poleroid Theatre Brings Play About Home To Vault Festival

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016: Alexa Terry

Longest Running Shows In The West End - December 2016

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016 : Mark Ludmon

Cardboard Citizens' Cathy Tour

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016 : Danny Coleman-Cooke

Abigail To Close Bunker's Innaugural Season

Mary Poppins - International Touring Cast Announced

Sci Fi Space Travel Musical Comes To The Vault

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016: Paul T Davies

Casting Announced For Ugly Lies The Bone At The National

Top 5 Epic Musical Theatre Performances of 2016

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016: Matthew Lunn

CRITIC'S CHOICE 2016: Julian Eaves

Oliver Reed -Wild Thing Returns To Kings Head By Popular Demand

Dick Whittington Comes To The London Palladium In December 2017

REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Lost Theatre

Suffice it to say that the whole was appreciated by the local audience, who brought with them to the theatre their loyal appreciation and good nature.

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 50 - 41

REVIEW: The Crumple Zone, Clapham Omnibus ✭✭✭✭

Make sure you see it! Your endorphins will thank you forever. As for Buddy Thomas, I suspect we in the UK are going to hear much more from him.

REVIEW: The Children, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Children is a thought-provoking play that entertains while presenting us with a dilemma about the responsibilities we all have to face.

REVIEW: Anything Goes, Upstairs At The Gatehouse ✭✭✭✭

This is a show well worth watching, at a venue that is becoming a byword for fun and vibrant festive musicals. Check it out before it goes!

REVIEW: Mary Stuart, Almeida Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

This production brings out Schiller's themes in a compelling and lucid way while also being an exciting political thriller and a very personal drama about tw…

REVIEW: Cinderella, London Palladium ✭✭✭

All in all, this is about as spectacular and over the top as pantomime should ever get. You certainly saw every penny of your ticket price on stage and the a…

REVIEW: Sinbad The Sailor, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭

Some people attending probably only ever go to the theatre to see the Christmas panto, and this certainly doesn’t disappoint. Some attending may even by ins…

REVIEW: Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, Haymarket Theatre Royal ✭✭✭✭✭

Despite the downbeat ending to Love's Labour's Lost and the troubles over Claudio and Hero's wedding in Much Ado About Nothing, the two plays are very funny …

REVIEW: Rent, St James Theatre (On Tour) ✭✭✭✭✭

As I write this, I am envious of those who are yet to see this brilliant 20th-anniversary production which offers unparalleled, penetrating rawness, performe…

REVIEW: Kiki's Delivery Service, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

Once again, Southwark Playhouse’s in-house Christmas offering takes us into new territory for the festive season, providing another alternative to the usual …

REVIEW: Soho Cinders, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

While we may have no actual glass slippers or fairy godmother, this is a magical production full of laugh-out-loud humour and delightful songs - enough to sa…

Further Casting Announced For Angels In America At The National

The National Theatre has announced further casting for the 25th-anniversary production of Angels In America which is to be presented from 11 April 2017.

REVIEW: Hedda Gabler, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Van Hove’s production is never less than interesting, creating memorable stage pictures, and containing powerful, committed, acting from the ensemble.

REVIEW: Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

After 30 years of waiting, Dreamgirls has arrived in London. The months of eager anticipation are over and tonight Amber Riley and the cast of this incredibl…

REVIEW: Dick Whittington, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Take your whole family to this wonderful evening at the theatre. Indulge in two hours of ripping humour and great performances.

Casting Announced For Raising Martha At Park Theatre

Jennifer Holliday On Dreamgirls and The Colour Purple

FIRST LOOK: Cinderella at the London Palladium

REVIEW: Muted, The Bunker ✭✭✭

The writers seemed to have found a mine of energy and vitality in a story of everyday tragedy, of the kind that litters the pages of The Evening Standard eve…

The Cardinal Comes To Southwark Playhouse

REVIEW: Nice Fish, Harold Pinter Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The piece may not be ground breaking nor revolutionary, but it is hugely entertaining.

REVIEW: The Screwtape Letters, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

The joy of the play and the original text comes from the inverted morality of Screwtape's world, where good is bad and sinning is applauded.

Casting Announced For Death Takes A Holiday at Charing Cross Theatre

Curious Incident London Announces 3 June 2017 Closing

Full Casting Announced For The Wild Party at The Other Palace

REVIEW: She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory ✭✭✭

As for this show, it’s all rather pretty and well-behaved and won’t do you any harm. Nothing to be ashamed of.

UPCOMING: Summer Street, Old Red Lion Theatre

Wonderfully melodic, strongly rhythmic and engagingly structured, the musical numbers in this score are its greatest glory.

UPCOMING: The Unblinding

This work combines an App-based animated graphic novel with audio and music and is launched direct to individual phones/tablets (the PC-friendly platform wil…

REVIEW: Thebes Land, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It cleverly blurs the line between reality and what we are seeing on stage in a way that is unsettling and leaves you questioning the theatrical experience i…

REVIEW: Giles Terera and Friends, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭✭

By the time everyone trooped back onto the stage for the group curtain call, we all knew we’d been through something special. And for all of you who missed …

REVIEW: Licensed To Ill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

This is a play which is going somewhere, and it could be going somewhere really, really big, but right now it's a boy who is old enough to smell but not yet …

REVIEW: Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Jest End returns to Waterloo East with a new, updated show which takes all the musicals you know and love, and tears them to pieces.

REVIEW: Her Aching Heart, Hope Theatre ✭✭

As harmless, seasonal larking about goes, this show is an undemanding couple of hours: if you go to it with an abundant admiration of the author and/or subje…

REVIEW: Peter Pan, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It's a wonderful production that will delight audiences of all ages and had all of us clapping to show that we really do believe in fairies.

REVIEW: Pride And Prejudice, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is an accomplished show, capturing the spirit and social comedy of Austen with added humour from the multiple casting. It has come to the Jermyn Street …

Out Of Order UK Tour

Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Moves Closer To Broadway Run

REVIEW: Sinbad - The Rock 'N' Roll Panto, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Wolsey hold the record for the longest running pantomime in the UK, so you’ve plenty of time to go up the gang plank to the Saucy Sausage; it’s a ride yo…

Watch The Live Hamilton Mixtape Ham4Ham Performance Today

Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins To Star In Carousel

REVIEW: Disaster, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

There is no doubt in my mind that Disaster! has everything needed to be a success in the West End. Judging from the audience reaction I would have thought it…

Rufus Hound Hosts Twelve Musical Theatre Stars At Actor's Church

FIRST LOOK: Peter Pan At The National Theatre, London

Explaining Pantomimes To Americans

FIRST LOOK: Dreamgirls at The Savoy Theatre

REVIEW: Catch Me, Above The Arts Theatre ✭✭✭

I came away from the performance greatly impressed by the technical achievement in constructing an ingenious chamber musical with the material, but rather in…

REVIEW: The Mirror Never Lies, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭✭

As with that show, it is only possible to ‘warm’ to the characters (and we have to take their side one way or another) if they can charm us. At present, the…

Alfie Boe and Michael Ball Score Gold Together

REVIEW: Hamilton The Revolution (Book) ✭✭✭✭✭

Half A Sixpence Extends to April 2017

REVIEW: Princess, LOST Theatre ✭✭✭

It’s huge fun, and races past in barely over an hour, hitting many more pleasure-spots than lulls.

Alan Menken's Christmas Carol Comes To Lost Theatre

Flashdance UK Tour

An Experiment In Musical Theatre

Hannah Elsy met Julian Eaves to discuss why she set up The Lowdown, the only public scratch night exclusively for new musical theatre in London.

REVIEW: School Of Rock, New London Theatre ✭✭✭✭

School of Rock is a triumph. It looks set for a decent run at the New London Theatre. Only time will tell if it will match the run of the Lord's mega-hit Cats.

The Boys In The Band Transfers To Vaudeville Theatre in February 2017

REVIEW: Half A Sixpence, Noel Coward Theatre ✭✭✭✭

All in all, this collaboration between the Chichester Festival Theatre and Cameron Mackintosh is a splendidly handsome revival of a much-loved classic story,…

New Trailer Released For Live Action Beauty And The Beast

REVIEW: It Is Easy To Be Dead, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭✭

Lively, animated, emotional, real, Knox takes the writings of Sorley and brings them wondrously to live with a zeal that is astounding.

FIRST LOOK: Disaster The Musical In Rehearsals

GALLERY: School Of Rock Opening Night

Pop Musical 2 Become 1 Comes To Kings Head Theatre

Jesus Christ Superstar Recieves Encore Season at Regents Park

Following a critically acclaimed sell-out season this year at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar will return in Summer 2017 for a limited…

David Walliams' Gangsta Granny UK Tour

REVIEW: Michael Ball and Alfie Boe - Together, Decca Records CD ✭✭✭✭✭

There is little doubt in my mind that both Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are kings when it comes to their interpretations of this type of material, that being s…

The Dreamboys UK Tour

REVIEW: Cathy, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭

It’s a powerful verbatim piece, linked by voice over’s and images of actual cases, people made homeless through no fault of their own, but falling victim to …

New Wimbledon Theatre

REVIEW: Tonight With Donny Stixx, The Bunker ✭✭✭✭✭

This is about as perfect a production of Philip Ridley's scary monodrama - a kind of 'The Events', except with loads more jokes, and much less singing - as a…

REVIEW: An Inspector Calls, Playhouse Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The entire production is a fascinating interpretation, and completely lives up to its ‘landmark’ hype. In these times of political upheaval, Priestley’s remi…

Casting Announced For Promises Promises at Southwark

REVIEW: Cats, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It has to be said: Marianne Benedict as Grizabella gives the best rendition of the infamous show tune that I have ever heard; with the climactic crescendo, h…

FIRST LOOK: It Is Easy To Be Dead, Trafalgar Studios

What's New In November - Editor's Pick

Laura Osnes Joins Frank Wildhorn and Friends In Manchester

The Cat In The Hat Returns To The Pleasance

FIRST LOOK - Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Apollo Theatre

Theatre 503's production BU21 Transfers To Trafalgar Studios

Stuart Slade's BU21, the award-nominated play that follows six Londoners in the aftermath of a fictitious terrorist attack will transfer to the Trafalgar Stu…

Lord Of The Dance- Dangerous Games UK Tour

Robbie Williams - The Heavy Entertainment Tour 2017

REVIEW: Lazarus, Kings Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

What we have here is a clear successor to 'Mamma Mia', in that the show takes a seminal back-catalogue and lifts from it a mix of tracks to elaborate and dec…

FIRST LOOK: School Of Rock, New London Theatre

REVIEW: The Wipers Times, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich ✭✭✭

Falling far short of the biting satire of Oh What A Lovely War and Blackadder Goes Forth, the play is an effective tribute to an extraordinary publication, a…

REVIEW: Side Show, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Hopefully, this will be the first of many productions of Side Show here in the UK, although I doubt any will match the talents involved here or the transcend…

Cirque Du Soleil Varekai UK Tour

Sheena Easton To Star In 42nd Street

REVIEW: Dead Funny, Vaudeville Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Johnson’s writing is complex and masterful, switching frequently and seamlessly between light and shade. The jokes hit the mark and are well timed, whilst ma…

Christina Bianco Celebrates Christmas At Charing Cross Theatre

The John Wilson Orchestra UK Tour

David Tennant To Star In Don Juan In Soho

Invincible UK Tour

REVIEW: Ordinary Days, Hen and Chickens Theatre ✭✭✭

Saving Jason Premieres At Park Theatre

FIRST LOOK: The Last Five Years at St James Theatre

Tom Stoppard's Travesties Transfers To Apollo Theatre

Derren Brown Goes Underground At Charing Cross Theatre

REVIEW: Lunatic, TheatreN16 ✭

Regretfully, I have to note that I personally didn’t find any work of that quality in this particular offering.

The Old Vic 2017 Season will feature Daniel Radcliffe

REVIEW: The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Entertainer’, a brilliantly performed play paralleling the breakdown of the British Empire and the decline of music hall, which concludes Kenneth Branagh…

REVIEW: Fiona Jane Weston ... And West End Friends, Phoenix Artists Club

In miniature, a marvelous insight into the life and work of artists in musical theatre, with something a little bit different about it, drawing a nice crowd,…

VIDEO: Dreamgirls in Rehearsals

REVIEW: Sweeney Todd, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭✭✭✭

Residents of Colchester are lucky to have on their doorsteps a production that punches above its regional theatre weight, and lovers of the musical would do …

Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein To Open In West End

REVIEW: Skin A Cat, The Bunker ✭✭✭✭

There is a lot, in fact, in the writing - and delivery - that reminds one of the best female stand-up comedy, and the audience here seems to be very like the…

REVIEW: The Hotel Cerise, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭✭

This is a remarkable and magnificent work, rich in detail and meaning, and - as we approach another decisive moment in the US (and therefore also global) his…

FIRST LOOK: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism at Hampstead Theatre

SHOW OF THE MONTH: The Bodyguard - Dominion Theatre - Save up to 53%

FIRST LOOK: Side Show at Southwark Playhouse

Damian Lewis Returns To the West End in Edward Albee Classic

After October Returns After Eighty Years

Further Casting Announced For Menier's She Loves Me

May and Ellis Cancel Christmas Concert Dates

Arthur Miller's The Crucible UK Tour

REVIEW: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The show has been seen in London several times recently, and it is clearly a work that repays revisitation, and reinterpretation. I will certainly be back to…

REVIEW: From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭

Bowie was a fascinating figure, with aspects of his work and image that make for rich pickings when it comes to creating a show. Unfortunately what From Ibiz…

REVIEW: Hotel For Criminals, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭✭

That such a heavyweight should be having his work showcased by such a (still) small company in a fringe studio says a lot about him and a lot about the venue…

REVIEW: Jess And Joe Forever, Lakeside Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Bravo Zoe Cooper, you have written a memorable play, one of the best this year, that deserves the widest audience possible!

The Glass Menagerie Comes To The Duke Of York's Theatre

Following the success of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child - Parts One and Two, director John Tiffany returns to the West End with his internationally acclai…

Miss Saigon UK Tour

VIDEO: Alfie Boe and Michaell Ball Music Video Released

REVIEW: Moby Dick The Musical, Union Theatre ✭✭✭

Andrew Wright’s production does what it can to make us concentrate on the show’s many felicities. However, it may take more than bracing direction and livel…

REVIEW: Wonderful Town, Ye Olde Rose and Crowne Pub Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is very New York. A constant hurly-burly of influences and crossed paths, with the players packed into the smallest space possible

REVIEW: Musical Of The Year, Lost Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This is the funniest show of its kind since 'Forbidden Broadway'.

Sir Cameron Mackintosh Gets Impromptu Birthday Surprise

REVIEW: Somewhere in England, New Wimbledon Studio ✭✭✭✭

This is the most important and exciting rediscovery of a ‘lost’ British musical since the 1982 King’s Head Theatre revival of Vivian Ellis’s ‘Mr Cinders’

REVIEW: Ulysses' Homecoming, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭

This is an entertaining and skillfully staged production of one of Monteverdi’s most popular operas. Make sure you go and see it at a theatre near you; you’r…

REVIEW: The Dresser, Duke Of York's Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Sean Foley’s production of The Dresser is simply extraordinary. Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith are outstanding as ‘Sir’ and Norman, whilst the supporting cas…

REVIEW: The Book Club, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭

If I had been wearing a hat, I would have taken it off to Amanda Muggleton. Although I didn’t find the character to be particularly likeable, Muggleton’s ext…

REVIEW: One Night In Miami, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭

These are men dancing on the edge of their own history, and the fact that we know their histories, (two of them killed by violence), makes the play highly po…

Dreamboats and Petticoats UK Tour

London Production Of Hamilton To Hold Open Auditions

REVIEW: Jekyll & Hyde and Nerve (Double Bill), Greenwich Theatre ✭✭✭

Brilliantly well-written dialogue is always great to hear, especially when delivered with cut-glass panache as by this super quartet: in addition to the auth…

The Wanted's Tom Parker To Star As Danny Zuko In Grease UK Tour

REVIEW: Code 2021: Autumn Secret Theatre Project, Bethnal Green ✭

It was a HUGE relief when it was all over. Not least for the accused, perhaps, who - like the rest of the cast - had had the almost impossible task of puttin…

FLASH SALE: The Libertine with Dominic Cooper - Save up to 40%

FIRST LOOK: Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 60 - 51

Dirty Dancing Returns To The West End This December

Phantom Celebrates 30 Years in Style

Celebrate Phantom's 30th Anniversary Tonight Live On Facebook

Hampstead's Wild Honey - Casting Announced

Frances Ruffelle To Star in The Wild Party At The Other Palace

Fellini's La Strada UK Tour

REVIEW: The Autumn Garden, Jermyn Street Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Despite this, there are quality performances on offer and an intriguing plot. The gradual descent of Nick from hero to scoundrel in Constance’s estimations i…

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Mercury Theatre Colchester ✭✭

The Only Way is Shakespeare? Staged in contemporary Essex in a garrison town, (not very subtly hinting that it takes place in Colchester), this production ma…

REVIEW: As You Like It, St Martins Church, Colchester ✭✭✭✭

Nicely abridged, with the tiresome Touchstone being eliminated, this is a very entertaining production.

REVIEW: Murder Ballad, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭

for me, ‘Murder Ballad’ is all about the exciting score which doesn’t depend on the screaming tenor, but on the sultry bass and an amalgamation of sexed up j…

REVIEW: Confessional, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

Silver takes Williams' American milieu and shifts it deftly - without changing a single word of the text - into the seedy, East-End-by-the-seaside, down-at-h…

REVIEW: Getting Better Slowly, New Diorama Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Overall, Getting Better Slowly’s main strengths lie in its performers and the sheer amount of heart in its story. It takes place in a small world, but ultima…

REVIEW: Mr Popper's Penguins, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Rooms (UK Tour) ✭✭✭

So, should one see this show? In my book, even if only for the closing minutes, then most definitely. Bateman and Hughes are major new talents and this is …

REVIEW: The Boys In The Band, Park Theatre ✭✭✭✭

All credit to director Adam Penford and the terrific cast for restoring the play back to the canon, and, in the intimacy of the Park Theatre, it now looks li…

Thriller Live - West End Extension, New UK Tour and China Opening!

Thriller Live continues to entertain people worldwide and producers have announced that the show will now extend its run in London's West End, will undertake…

Rufus Sewell Leads Revival Of Art At The Old Vic

The Old Vis has announced that Tim Key (Winer 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award), Paul Ritter ( The Audience, The Norman Conquests) and Rufus Sewell ( Closer, ITV'…

Shane Richie To Star As Roy Grace in Not Dead Enough Tour

Producers have announced that Shane Richie will play the role of Roy Grace in the world stage premiere of Peter James' play Not Dead Enough for the first par…

White Bear Theatre Re-Opens with Bright Lucifer

Following a £1.3 million redevelopment, The White Bear Theatre has recently re-opened. It's first production Brice Stratford's professional world premiere pr…

REVIEW: All Aboard, Electric Theatre Guildford ✭✭✭✭✭

And the company, all giving their energies for a song and dance, make this the wonder it is: a rollicking night out, and also a landmark in the development o…

FIRST LOOK: Moby Dick Rehearsals at the Union Theatre

FIRST LOOK: Cinderella at the London Palladium - Character Portraits

REVIEW: Adding Machine, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Musically, this is a serious work, that demands a lot of its listeners; but it repays handsomely in its dramatic and aesthetic effects.

REVIEW: Girls, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Girls is confrontational without becoming prosecutorial, heartfelt without becoming unbelievable. With powerful writing and equally strong performances, Girl…

REVIEW: The Libertine, Haymarket Theatre ✭✭✭

The Libertine is an enjoyable, but rather unfulfilling play. The Earl of Rochester is an intriguing figure, and Dominic Cooper’s is a witty and energetic por…

What's New In October - Editor's Pick

Bowie Homage Comes To Waterloo East

Adrian Berry's From Ibiza To The Norfolk Broads comes to the Waterloo East Theatre in October 2016. This celebration and homage to one of the greatest musica…

Rafe Spall Joins Cast Of National's Hedda Gabler

Rafe Spall joins Ruth Wilson in Ivo Van Hove's new production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre. Book Now.

Jest End Returns To Waterloo East

The hit comedy musical show exploring and 'exposing' the hits, flops and gossip of Theatreland, returns to Waterloo East Theatre after its sell-out season in…

Jersey Boys London To Close 26 March 2017

After nine amazing years in London, producers have announced that Jersey Boys will close at the Piccadilly Theatre on Sunday 26 March 2017. They have also a…

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 70 – 61

FLASH SALE: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at Apollo Theatre Save up to 52%

The Legend Of Gog Comes To The Lion And Unicorn

New Psychological Thriller Based on Stoker's Dracula Comes To Theatre N16

Tonight With Donny Stixx Comes To The Bunker

Shakespeare Wants To Rest In Peace - So Go Away!

REVIEW: Big Shot, London Irish Centre ✭✭✭

There really is no infrastructure in Ireland for making work of this kind, which makes the achievement all the more striking. Everyone has another job, or tw…

Babe The Sheep Pig UK Tour

Happy 10th Birthday Wicked London

Seventh Annual West End Bares - A Knight Like No Other

Andre Rieu UK Tour Tickets

REVIEW: Out There, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Nevertheless, this is another creditable creation from the production stables of Sasha Regan and underlines her continuing commitment to the development of n…

REVIEW: Kenny Morgan, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

It’s a little ironic that, in a time of cross gender, age and ethnic blind casting, multi-media work and when the theatre is trying to find the next big thin…

REVIEW: The Hired Man In Concert, Cadogan Hall ✭✭✭✭✭

Cadogan Hall brought a lavish concert performance of the piece to its stage, and - once again - we saw and heard just why we should value this work amongst t…

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 80 – 71

Imelda Staunton To Star In Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

REVIEW: Made In Dagenham, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Director Douglas Rintoul places it in the hands of an exceptional ensemble of actor-musicians, and the result is a joyful and powerful evening celebrating eq…

Stepping Out Tour and West End

REVIEW: That Man, Hippodrome Casino ✭✭✭✭

If anyone loves the music of Caro Emerald, then they’ll love this feast of her songs presented in a dramatic context. If anyone does not know her music, or …

Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour - 10th Anniversary Tickets Now On Sale

Sheridan Smith To Star In Funny Girl UK Tour

Anita Louise Combe Sings Back To Before From Ragtime

REVIEW: Briefs, The Spiegeltent, London Wonderground ✭✭✭✭✭

This is pure, unadulterated escapism – and nobody does it better. We all need a little escapism every now and then, and in these crazy – even difficult – ti…

REVIEW: Sid, Above The Arts ✭✭✭✭✭

REVIEW: Things I Know To Be True, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭✭

Families are complicated and messy, nevertheless, family dramas when captured correctly can be hugely touching. No matter what our background, we all have e…

REVIEW:- John and Jen, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Added to this is the factor of Lippa’s music and Greenwald’s lyrics (they share credits for the book). Both can be bright, incisive, strongly characterised …

Henry V Tour

Returning for its fourth year to delight audiences around the UK, Antic Disposition’s critically-acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Henry V will embark on…

Sheffield's Annie Get Your Gun Casting Announced

New British Musical The Girls To Open in January 2017

REVIEW: Torn Apart, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

There is sometimes a rawness to the action, an absence of polish, but it is always convincing and involving: in fact, the wonderful paradox here is that, as …

Elton John - Wonderful Crazy Night Tour - Now On Sale

REVIEW: The Pianist Of Willesden Lane, St James Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The piece is told beautifully and simply, with no added spectacle or illusion: just one woman, her piano and a story - and I was holding on to every word and…

Beyond The Barricade UK Tour

Cameron Mackintosh Stops Understudies From Tweeting Their Schedules

FIRST LOOK: The new cast of Kinky Boots West End

F*cking Men Transfer To The Vaults

Following three sell-out, critically acclaimed runs both at The Edinburgh Fringe and in London, The King's Head Theatre production of F*cking Men will transf…

Casting Announced For All My Sons At Rose Kingston

Willemijn Verkaik Returns To Wicked in January 2017

It Is Easy To Be Dead Comes To Trafalgar 2

The Fantastic Mr Fox UK Tour

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 90 - 81

REVIEW: 27, The Cockpit ✭✭✭✭✭

This current production looks like an object lesson in how to fuse the best of experienced industry leaders with dynamic new talent. And the writing-directin…

Full Casting Announced For Side Show at Southwark Playhouse

Crazy For You UK Tour

REVIEW: Party, Above The Stag ✭✭✭✭✭

Party isn’t a play that involves long complex character studies. It’s a hoot, had me laughing throughout and wanting a return visit. It’s pure fun. It holds …

REVIEW: The Naked Magicians, Tragalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭

Will you see better magic elsewhere? More than likely. Will you see more nudity at other destinations? Probably. Will you see the two together at another…

Twisted Fairy Tale Princesses Come To Lost Theatre

Roald Dahl 100

REVIEW:The Play That Goes Wrong, Duchess Theatre ✭✭✭✭

The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly entertaining show, with a fine new cast of actors and a artfully catastrophic set. Given this, and the British public’s …

An Inspector Calls - Casting Announced

FIRST LOOK: The Libertine starring Dominic Cooper

School Of Rock - Cast Announced

The Lion King - No Booking Fee Offer

Terry Johnson's Dead Funny Comes To The Vaudeville Theatre

REVIEW: Punkplay, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Gregory S. Moss is an ingenious playwright who has created a sequence of tableaux, each of which can be understood as a 'cover' of a different musical 'track…

REVIEW: Broken Strings, Tabard Theatre ✭✭✭

Above all, this is a drama that might occur in anyone's life: the sheer everyday nature of the story is in fact its raison d'etre. While it may not bark for …

REVIEW: [title of show], Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

All in all, [title of show] is simple, straightforward entertainment and an affectionate look at the process of just putting on a performance. As the charact…

REVIEW: Vanities, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭

‘Vanities The Musical’ is another dazzling production in Aria Entertainment’s charming and growing catalogue and, whether it is an evening with your friends,…

Licensed To Ill - Beastie Boys Musical Tour

Top 100 Greatest Musicals Results: 100 - 91

REVIEW: La Boheme, King's Head Theatre ✭✭✭

While Adam Spreadbury-Maher’s version of Puccini’s La Boheme is original and beautifully sung, it struggles to capture all the magic of the original. A stron…

REVIEW: Bumblescratch, Adelphi Theatre ✭✭

As it stands the score is far too dense and thematically all over the place, the plot far too complex and several characters seemingly irrelevant. Once I got…

FIRST LOOK: Vanities The Musical - Trafalgar Studios

Meet The Skater Punks From Punk Play

The Full Monty Opens UK Tour with £5million Advance

Twopence To Cross The Mersey UK Tour

REVIEW: Crime and Punishment, The Scoop ✭✭

Not only does he (Phil Willmott) offer free live performances to theatre virgins, to those who wouldn’t normally choose to spend their money on tickets and t…

Last Tango In London For Strictly Duo

REVIEW: Bounder And Cad, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

There is no doubt that their highly comedic takes on current affairs, politics and the British psyche not only hit the nail on the head but well and truly ha…

Scarlett Strallen To Star In She Loves Me At The Menier

Ellen Kent's Aida UK Tour

Ellen Kent's Nabucco UK Tour

REVIEW: The Burnt Part Boys, Park Theatre ✭✭✭

You must judge for yourself whether you think this may or may not the case with this play. Whatever decision you arrive at, you might also like to consider w…

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REVIEW: Unfaithful, Found111 ✭✭✭

For such an explosive opening, the surprisingly muted ending of Unfaithful leaves its audience unsatisfied and full of questions. Whilst commendable for Cusa…

Meet The 10th Anniversary Cast Of Wicked London

Natasha J Barnes Cast As Cinderella For Palladium Panto

Half A Sixpence Transfers To Noel Coward Theatre

Harry Potter Gets Symphonic Treatment Live

REVIEW: Brass, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭✭

The show's score is one that you want - you need - to revisit again and again. Till and his collaborators are such major talents that there isn't a single li…

Real Life Story Of Performer's Voice Loss Challenge Comes To Pleasance

REVIEW: Glasgow Girls, Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭

While the musical inevitably simplifies complex issues, it seamlessly integrates some of the debate about Britain’s attitudes towards refugees and asylum see…

In The Heights London Sets Closing Date

REVIEW: Scorched, Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

Directed by Claire Coaché, Scorched is a powerful play that captures the horror of war and the disorientation of dementia.

REVIEW: A Regular Little Houdini, Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

It starts slowly but, through the strength of Llewelyn-Williams' performance and writing, you are soon gripped by his tale as it builds in excitement, mixing…

REVIEW: The Trial, Brockley Jack ✭✭✭✭

The Trial is an intense and thought-provoking evening, giving a fresh perspective on one of Kafka’s most famous works. An intriguing play in an excellent the…

REVIEW: The Dark Tower, Youth Music Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

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REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet (Abridged), St Martin's Colchester ✭✭✭✭✭

In this beautiful, innovative production of the play, the script is abridged and the audience promenade and it’s played by a terrific ensemble who convince w…

Drink, Drugs And Homosexuality Feature In New Old Red Lion Production

REVIEW: Marco Polo, Shaw Theatre ✭✭✭

But the message this work has to speak to us is not going to be dismissed: in an era when the management of the world by politicians is so signally lacking i…

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Broken Strings Comes To The Tabard Theatre

Rediscovered Priestley Comedy Comes To Park Theatre

REVIEW: Scooby Doo Live Musical Mysteries, London Palladium ✭✭✭✭

The show runs for just under 90 minutes with a brief interval and had the attention of children throughout. Lots of audience response was called for and the …

REVIEW: DarkTales, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭

Late night, in a dank cellar, this show might find the right atmosphere. As it is, it's far too safe, and seems a strange choice for the fringe.

REVIEW: 946 The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips, Shakepeare's Globe ✭✭✭

This is a story well worth telling; one of the most hushed up disasters in Anglo-American history. It has been turned into a touching and entertaining play, …

REVIEW: Groundhog Day, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

For a 10 week trial, this production of Groundhog Day is as good or better than many shows I have seen this year. A West-end transfer must surely be on the c…

Kenny Morgan Back By Popular Demand

REVIEW: The League Of Youth, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭✭

The genius of this work is that it opens up to us what is really great about the writer: his vision of humanity, his craft as a composer of lyrical epics of …

REVIEW: Teatro Delusio, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

A packed venue of all ages, from young children to grandparents, loved it. Be quick in booking as this is one hot ticket, and fall in love with theatre again!

REVIEW: 5 Guys Chillin, C Too - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭

On the plus side, the cast are very good, and the damaging side of their partying is played very well. I liked the confrontational nature of the script, and …

REVIEW: I Love You You're Perfect Now Change, Arts Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

With a script and score this good, with such a robustly simple and flexible and clear set-up and artists of such sterling quality, this was like being at a r…

REVIEW ROUND UP: Groundhog Day, Old Vic Theatre

REVIEW: Thrones, Assembly - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

The show comes in at under an hour, and maybe it's time for the company to spread their dragon wings and expand the material- there was plenty of fire left a…

UPCOMING: Musical Theatre For Shopkeepers

Mum's The Word UK Tour

PunkPlay Comes To Southwark Playhouse

REVIEW: MacDeth, Cockpit Theatre ✭

Rogue Shakespeare Brings MacDeth To London

REVIEW: Love, Lies and Taxidermy, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭

The sell-out audience loved it and you will leave with a huge grin on your face! A solid gold feel good hit! The film version must be in the works?

REVIEW: Allegro, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Thom Sutherland’s production of Allegro is a definite success, putting a positive gloss on a perhaps unfairly maligned play. It is intelligently directed, pe…

REVIEW: Growth, Roundabout at Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

This is a play about an issue many young men may not want to face- in fact the word cancer isn't spoken. Well worth checking out- then check them out lads! H…

REVIEW: Adler and Gibb, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

Challenging and intellectual, performed by a disciplined ensemble, this is what fringe theatre should be. You will either love it or hate it, but it is so wo…

REVIEW: Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Be warned, this is not a night at the theatre for the prissy or faint-hearted, the "Ladies" swear like sailors and the subject matter here is at times more l…

REVIEW: Us/Them, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭

Balloons become bombs, string restricts the space, the terror is worked out as a maths calculation. Haunting and mesmerising, this is the best the Fringe has…

REVIEW: Milk, Traverse - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭✭

Orla O'Loughlin's sensitive direction and Paul Meller's uncluttered design guides us through the need for love. Yes, some strands are left loose, but a terri…

REVIEW: Bubble Schmeisis, Summerhall - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

This is a warm, informative, lovely show, and you would do well to spend an hour at the baths!

La Cage Aux Folles UK Tour

REVIEW: A Good Clean Heart, Underbelly - Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭

Alun Saunder's beautiful script is not just bilingual, he also explores street language and bravado. Excellent direction and movement and a wonderful karaoke…

A Judgement In Stone UK Tour

REVIEW: Steel Magnolias, Hope Theatre ✭✭✭

Easy, very funny, but ultimately underwhelming, Steel Magnolias is perhaps best left to the admirers of the film.

FIRST LOOK: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro - Southwark Playhouse

REVIEW: The Naked Magicians, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

They are not afraid to be cheesy and corny, and fans of the buff male body will not be disappointed as they build to a satisfying climax (Sorry!)

REVIEW: Eurobeat, Pleasance - Edinburgh Festival ✭✭✭✭

If you're looking for subtlety look elsewhere. This is high camp influenced by Carry On, and no cultural stereotype is under exploited, and the show is all t…

FIRST LOOK: Unfaithful Rehearsal Images

Rocky Horror Show Uk Tour Casting Update

Coronation Street On Tour

REVIEWS: Darktales, Edinburgh Festival

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REVIEW: The Past Is A Tattooed Sailor, Old Red Lion Theatre ✭✭✭

Although by the end of the piece I wanted to cuddle Uncle Napier, I didn’t feel the need to squeeze. Whether the play is liked or not, a promise has been kep…

FIRST LOOK: No Man's Land UK Tour

New Faces Join Phantom Cast - August 2016

Tennessee Williams' Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur Casting

REVIEW: Funny Girl, London Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭

You can hear Sheridan's personality in this recording, this is no sterile studio recording, you can hear her smile and the comedy of the show comes across in…

First Look: Consuming Passions, Stephen Joseph Theatre

REVIEW: Heart Of Winter, A Song Cycle CD ✭✭✭✭✭

There's a lot to recommend Heart Of Winter, I can't wait to hear more of Connor and Buddle, with new writing talent like this, I am confident there are brill…

REVIEW: The Wind In The Willows, Mercury Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Matthew Cullum’s direction allows imaginations to run wild, a shopping trolley becomes a horse, a spade a fish, a bugle a pistol, without ever sacrificing th…

REVIEW: Close To You, London Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭✭

Close To You is a stunning recording that takes me back to what for me was a very special night in the theatre. I daresay it will be played with frightening …

REVIEW: The Collector, The Vaults Waterloo ✭✭✭

Despite its moments of clumsiness, this is a well-designed and finely acted production, and is worth a trip for the atmospheric venue alone. An interesting a…

Pride And Prejudice UK Tour

42nd Street Returns To London in 2017

VIDEO: Aladdin's TWO Genies Duet

Thoroughly Modern Millie UK Tour

UPCOMING: You Tweet My Face Space

Freddie Fox Replaces Richard Madden In Romeo And Juliet

Scooby Doo Live! London Cast Announced

Kiki Comes To Southwark This Christmas

New Truly And Childcatcher As Chitty Lands in Edinburgh

Sarah Harding and Andy Moss To Star in Ghost UK Tour

FIRST LOOK: Night Must Fall UK Tour Rehearsals

Andrew Lloyd Webber Celebrate Three Shows Currently On Broadway

FIRST LOOK: Harry Potter Opening Gala

REVIEW: Exposure, St James Theatre ✭

Exposure is so bland that ultimately it won't make the list of great flops, you know those shows that lurch from briliance to being dire. There's just nothin…

REVIEW: Rotterdam, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭

Nothing is conclusive in Rotterdam, but then again nothing is constant either. In this port city, where everyone is either arriving or leaving, the audience …

REVIEW ROUND UP: Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre

FIRST LOOK : Exposure The Musical, St James Theatre

Casting Announced For Strictly Ballroom

Rare Priestley Comes To The Old Red Lion

FIRST LOOK: The World Goes Round in Scarborough

A Bit Of Rumpy Pumpy At The Union

Rock A Long With The Cast Of American Idiot

Casting Announced For Shawshank Redemption Tour

REVIEW: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Palace Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Yesterday, at London’s Palace Theatre, I experienced something quite magical, and that was just watching the audience. Harry Potter And The Cursed Child had …

UPCOMING: Can't Stop It The Musical

FIRST LOOK: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Production Photos

Further Casting Announced For The Boys In The Band

David Bowie's Lazarus Comes To London This October

FIRST LOOK: Groundhog Day at The Old Vic Preview Photos

REVIEW: Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent Park Open Air Theatre ✭✭✭

OPENING NIGHT: The Bodyguard At The Dominion Theatre

PREVIEW: Amber Riley Sings I Am Changing From Dreamgirls

FIRST LOOK: The Collector Rehearsals

FIRST LOOK: Dirty Dancing Tour Rehearsals

Title Of Show Comes To Waterloo East

Children Of Eden Cast Announced

Sunny Afternoon UK Tour Cast Announced

Radio Times At Charing Cross Postponed

A Princess Undone Tour

Children Of Eden Comes To The Union Theatre

David Dillon's Party Returns To London

Wicked International Tour Production Photos

Rehearsal For Murder UK Tour

Titanic Extends Record Breaking Charing Cross Season

Gawn Grainger Joins The Cast Of The Entertainer

REVIEW: Through The Mill, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭

Through The Mill is a triumphant look at the life of Judy Garland. It’s a wonderful evening in the theatre that will thrill fans and non-fans alike. The inca…

Finding Neverland To Arrive in London in 2017

Simon Blow Play Premieres At Old Red Lion

REVIEW: Romeo And Juliet, Garrick Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This Romeo and Juliet are not gushy and are more than the Innamorati of Commedia Dell’arte. They are (James especially) sincere and relatable versions of two…

Kerry Ellis and Ramin Karimloo To Headline Godspell Gala

Verbatim Play False Choices To Be Staged At King's Head

Mark Rylance Returns To West End in Nice Fish

Sheridan Smith Returns To Funny Girl Tonight

Little Shop Of Horrors UK Tour Casting Announced

Vanities Comes To Trafalgar Studios 2

Prisoner Cell Block H Star Brings One Woman Show To King's Head

FIRST LOOK: Jesus Christ Superstar Rehearsals

UK's First Gay Play Comes To Kings Head Theatre

FIRST LOOK: Rebel Wilson and Simon Lipkin in Guys And Dolls

FIRST LOOK: Scooby Doo Comes To The London Palladium

Marilyn and Sinatra at Jermyn Street

Peter Schlemiel Transfers to Theatre N16

Amanda Holden Cast As Fairy Godmother in Palladium Cinderella

FIRST LOOK: Tim Minchin's new musical Groundhog Day

Funny Girl UK Tour

FIRST LOOK: Beverley Knight In The Bodyguard

Beautiful Cast Join Carole King In Hyde Park

REVIEW: Barbu, London Wonderground ✭✭✭✭✭

REVIEW: Funny Girl with Natasha J Barnes, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Barnes’ Fanny Brice is a musical comedy delicacy, a sumptuous multi-layered confection that should be savoured. On the surface level she tackles Fanny’s big …

REVIEW: Bugsy Malone, Lyric Hammersmith ✭✭✭✭✭

The real spark behind this production is Drew McOnie’s blistering choreography. Even though the cast is probably the youngest around, this is the best devise…

Night Must Fall UK Tour

Jessie Wallace Joins The Cast Of Chicago On Tour

REVIEW: The Go-Between, Apollo Theatre ✭✭

Apparently The Go-Between started life as a play, and for once the book here, written by David Wood, is not the problem here. The Go Between fails because of…

Great Shows To See At Udderbelly and London Wonderground

REVIEW: Vassa Zheleznova, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭

Vassa Zheleznova is an ambitious production and the Southwark Playhouse must be commended for taking a real risk on a lesser known text. However, the end res…

The Girls To Open In London in January 2017

REVIEW: Gertrude - The Cry, Theatre N16 ✭✭✭✭

Chris Hislop’s direction is shrewd and although parts do push the boundaries, none of the nudity or sex feels in any way gratuitous. Although it is a challen…

Moby Dick Comes To The New Union Theatre

The Wedding Singer UK Tour

REVIEW: Flowers For Mrs Harris, Sheffield Crucible ✭✭✭

VIDEO: Aladdin Opening Night

Not Dead Enough UK Tour

Sunny Afternoon To Close In London

REVIEW: All Male HMS Pinafore, Richmond Theatre ✭✭✭✭

This HMS Pinafore asks us to reflect on a society that has changed considerably, but must keep evolving and continuing to examine itself. Gilbert’s jeering s…

REVIEW: Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It’s a fast paced, energetic and supremely satisfying night at the theatre, and I daresay one that people will want to return to such is the joy that it brings.

The Stripper Casting Announced

FIRST LOOK: Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre

Hamilton To Open In West End In October 2017

West End Live Returns

Tony Awards 2016 - The Winners

Rent UK Tour

REVIEW: Titanic, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

To my mind Titanic is currently the best show in the West End at the present time. Any lover of musical theatre would be crazy not to get a ticket to experie…

REVIEW: Lucky Stiff, DVD ✭✭

Whilst Lucky Stiff may be of interest to fanatics for its sheer novelty value, it is so silly and saccharine that it may struggle to find an audience elsewhere.

REVIEW: Twist Of Lemon, St James Theatre Studio ✭✭✭✭

It is a heart-warming night, Chris bluffs and stutters, clearly enjoying impersonating his father through his famous lines, but personally I preferred it whe…

FIRST LOOK: Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

REVIEW: Musicals Unsung, St James Theatre Studio ✭✭✭✭

An Inspector Calls Comes To The Playhouse Theatre

Further Cast Announced For King Lear At The Old Vic - Book Now

The Old Vic 2016-17 Season. Now On Sale

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show UK Tour

Casting Announced For Cinderella At The London Palladium

Andrew Lloyd Webber's School Of Rock - Now On Sale

Rebel Wilson Joins The Cast Of Guys And Dolls

THE BIG INTERVIEW: Maury Yeston Composer of Titanic

Elaine Paige - Stripped Back UK Tour

FIRST LOOK: Titanic - Charing Cross Theatre

REVIEW: Monster Raving Loony, Soho Theatre ✭✭✭✭

With the audience donning party hats and at times encouraged to participate, it is an entertaining show that slips in plenty of sharp insights into British p…

Rachel Tucker Returns For Wicked's 10th Birthday

An Evening With Charlie Sheen at Theatre Royal Dury Lane

Disney On Ice - Frozen UK Tour

Matt Smith To Star In Unreachable At Royal Court

Chaplin UK Tour

REVIEW: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Waterloo East Theatre ✭✭✭

The Great American Trailer Park musical is in effect just too damn likeable. It’s not a great musical, it doesn’t have to be, it’s just a great evening of fu…

Fiasco Theatre Brings Into The Woods To The Menier

FIRST LOOK: Parade at Hope Mill Theatre - Manchester

REVIEW: Christian Holder, SUITE 60, Crazy Coqs ✭✭✭✭

Nothing about an evening of Christian Holder in cabaret is what you expect it might be. If you are expecting an evening of songs, rolled out one after anothe…

FIRST LOOK: Aladdin In Rehearsals

It Is Easy To be Dead Comes To Finborough Theatre

Nicholas Afoa Joins The Cast Of The Lion King

Casting Announced for 1984 at Playhouse Theatre

Sir Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire Announce New Roles

Lisa Spirling Appointed Artistic Director At Theatre503

A Filthy Take On Hamlet Comes To TheatreN16

Nigel Lindsay Joins The West End Cast Of Guys And Dolls

Bugsy Malone Returns To Lyric Hammersmith

REVIEW: People, Places and Things, Wyndham's Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Jamie Muscato To Star In John Osborn Drama

Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer Of The Year and Stiles And Drewe Prize Winners Announced.

Dearman and Pitt-Pulford Join Together for Side Show The Musical

Natasha J Barnes To Play Fanny As Sheridan Smith Takes Leave Of Absence

REVIEW: Jack And Louisa ✭✭✭✭

Wonderland UK Tour

Little Voice Casting For Union Theatre Announced

Lady Day Performances Postponed As Audra Announces Pregnancy.

Show Boat To Close Early

Wicked Announces International Tour Cast

Rotterdam Transfers To Trafalgar Studios

Jon Brittain's play Rotterdam will transfer from Theatre503 to Trafalgar Studios for a limited season from 26 July to 27 August 2016.

Rodgers And Hammerstein's Allegro Gets European Premiere

Starting A Theatre Company From Scratch - Episode 2

FIRST LOOK: Kenneth Branagh In The Entertainer

Five Reasons To See: The Phantom Of the Opera

REVIEW: The Diary Of A Hounslow Girl, Oval House (UK Tour) ✭✭✭✭✭

I can only highly recommend this piece and suggest that if it is coming to a theatre near you that you invest in a ticket and experience the play for yoursel…

The Boys In The Band UK Tour

FIRST LOOK: The Buskers Opera at Park Theatre

REVIEW: Richard II, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Macbeth When asked to reflect on Shakespeare’s most ‘political’ plays, many of us would say and Richard III without a thought. Such is the astonishing influe…

FIRST LOOK - Lawrence After Arabia at Hampstead Theatre

Casting Announced For Through The Mill

Country Musical To Open At Queen's Theatre

Youth Based Secret Garden To Open In The West End

Starting A Theatre Company From Scratch - Episode 1

REVIEW: Footloose, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Footloose had all 1600 people at the New Wimbledon Theatre last night on their feet dancing at the end with pure joy!

Tony Awards 2016 - Nominees Announced

REVIEW: The Toxic Avenger, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

REVIEW: Down And Out In Paris And London, New Diorama Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Down And Out In Paris And London is must-see theatre. Concise, brilliantly performed and with megatons of dramatic punch, this is a piece that needs to be se…

Big The Musical

REVIEW: Shit-Faced Shakespeare, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭

: The official website for Shit-faced Shakespeare, the unholy offspring of Magnificent Bastard Productions, describes their show as “the deeply highbrow fusi…

FIRST LOOK: The Toxic Avenger at Southwark Playhouse

FIRST LISTEN: Alexandra Burke in Sister Act

REVIEW: Doctor Faustus, Duke Of Yorks Theatre ✭✭

Doctor Faustus is a production that tries to achieve a lot, and only partially succeeds. It is an artfully staged production that is high in intensity but cr…

History Making Richard II Staged In Houses Of Parliament

REVIEW: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, Criterion Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is uproariously funny. It is irreverent and energetic, with a versatile and imaginative set that lends itself brilliantly to …

UK Premiere of An American In Paris Coming To The Dominion Theatre

REVIEW: Ann Hampton Callaway, Crazy Coqs ✭✭✭✭✭

FIRST LOOK: Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre

Parliamentary Drama This House Comes To The Garrick

Special Offer - Best Of British Pop at the London Cabaret Club

REVIEW: Funny Girl, Savoy Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Victoria Wood Dies Aged 62

Lotty's War UK Tour

Jungle Book UK Tour

Queens Of Syria - Syrian Refugees Perform Euripides

Casting Announced As Titanic Returns

Rosemary Ashe To Star In Great American Trailer Park Musical

The Quiet House - IVF Drama At Park Theatre

Devlish! - The Angel Has Landed At The Landor Theatre

Lennon Tribute Opens in Liverpool Tonight.

Marvel Universe Live Comes To The UK

Jane Fonda Drama Comes To The Park Theatre

Stone Face - New Premiere at The Finborough

FIRST LOOK: Goosebumps at The Vaults

Dirty Dancing UK Tour - Casting Announced

Rediscovered John Osborne Play To Be Staged At The Finborough

Save The Last Dance For Me UK Tour

REVIEW: Kinky Boots, London Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭

Casting Announced For The Go-Between

REVIEW: Deathwatch, Print Room At The Coronet ✭✭✭

FIRST LOOK - Show Boat at the New London Theatre

BUG releases 1000 more seats

Cinderella Returns To The London Palladium This Christmas

Jersey Boys London Celebrate 8th Anniversary

That's Entertainment UK Tour

Ellen Kent's La Boheme UK Tour

London Premiere of Orwell Toynbee Drama

REVIEW: Forever Plaid, St James Studio ✭✭✭✭

During the show The Plaids talk about ‘the blend’ and as the show progresses you understand exactly what they mean. The musicianship onstage both vocal and i…

Billy Elliot's Final Victoria Palace Performance

American Idiot Returns To The Arts Theatre in July 2016