It’s a common conundrum. You have gone to the theatre, and instead of enjoying Wicked for the fourteenth time, you’ve gone off-piste and chosen an experimental piece of physical theatre…
The Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre is a gorgeous little space, lending itself rather beautifully to Tenessee Williams’ simmering Deep South drama. The low ceilings, wooden flooring and a clever lighting…
Crime is in right now. True crime docudramas, gritty murder mysteries, courtroom and police thrillers – it’s all over Netflix and primetime TV. But in theatre, it’s perhaps less ubiquitous.…
Creating a play that responds directly to the endless circus of modern American politics is no mean feat. It’s true that in the past few years a fair few adaptations…
It’s Christmas. Trees are up, lights are a-twinkling and quite frankly, if you attend a concert at the Lyric Hammersmith entitled ‘Joe Stilgoe: Christmas at the Movies’, you know what…
A Very Very Very Dark Matter is actually a very very very accurate description of the content of this play, which is hilarious but very, very, very dark. The latest offering…
Summer’s over, school has started again. And with those pesky older children out of the way, it’s a great time to take pre-schoolers to the theatre – especially with shows…
First things first. If your heart is not in the slightest bit warmed by the British Theatre Academy’s production of Goodnight Mister Tom, this may be a sign that you…
It’s curtain time and away we go – another opening, another show! So begins Cole Porter’s ambitious, raucous musical, now revived for a short run at the London Coliseum. But…