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Cast Announced for David Hare's The Vertical Hour at The Park Theatre

Jamie Lloyd Exits Back To The Future Musical

The West End Goes Ice Bucket Mad

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Meet The Altar Boyz

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Jamie Lloyd To Direct Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory

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Meet The Cast Of Twickeham's Sweeney Todd

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Marry Me A Little Returns To St James Theatre Studio for One Week Only

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Composer and Lyricist Sandy Wilson Passes Away Aged 90

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Simon Lipkin leads cast of As You Like It at Southwark Playhouse

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REVIEW: Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeares Globe ✭✭✭

Eve Best might not be the greatest actress to have played Cleopatra, or the one with the greatest voice. But she created an indelible, voraciously sexual, po…

Miss Saigon 25th Anniversary Gala Sells Out

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REVIEW: Guys and Dolls, Chichester Festival Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Whatever people may say, Guys and Dolls is not foolproof. It can be done very badly. This is not one of those occasions...You would be silly to miss seeing t…

REVIEW: Anything Goes, Cadogan Hall ✭✭

As a whole experience, this was the equivalent of the local school end-of-year concert. If you were friendly and forgiving, you could have a good time. If yo…

REVIEW: Lady Celeste: A Star Is Reborn, Camden Fringe at the Phoenix Artist Club ✭✭✭

Get in at the ground level - see Lady Celeste now before she is propelled into the stratosphere. It's always good to say "I was there when it started". And m…

REVIEW: My Night With Reg, Donmar Warehouse ✭✭✭✭✭

It’s poetic and achingly sad in some moments, stupidly silly in others. But it has a resonant and vibrant pulse which throbs louder and truer now than it did…

REVIEW: Go!, Camden Fringe at The Phoenix Artist Club ✭✭✭

This is the kind of production which would be a cause célèbre at Edinburgh. It's not perfect, but it is performed and directed with passion, skill and true c…

REVIEW: The White Devil, RSC, Swan Theatre ✭

It's like watching a censored propaganda film: you have a clear idea what to expect, but it is presented in a way which dumbfounds those expectations.

REVIEW: Two Gentlemen Of Verona, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Theatre ✭✭✭✭

It's wonderful seeing a little play, virtually unknown, on the main stage at Stratford. An auspicious debut for Godwin and another good sign about Gregory Do…

REVIEW: Epstein, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭

As Brian Epstein, Andrew Lancel turns out a stunning portrayal of a complex man who is as strong and charismatic as he is emotionally frail and weak. It’s an…

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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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