Awarding a show the full five stars is a strange and wonderful thing. It’s normally done basking in the warm afterglow of an incredible show, something that’ll be spinning around your head for weeks to come, that’s made you feel so excited you need to...
It’s that time of year again, when otherwise perfectly respectable actors and actresses don ridiculous outfits, overact their hearts out and sing (hopefully) hilarious parodies, all in the name of the Christmas panto. This year’s “Excess All Areas” offering comes not from the usual Battersea...
Marking the centenary of the First World War, Fear in a Handful of Dust is a powerful new play currently showing at the COGArtspace that considers both the horrors and humanity of people at war. In an unusual move for a play about war, it...
For a moment, suspend everything you know about Japan. Imagine a far off and mysterious country where it’s a criminal offense – punishable by death – to flirt. Insert an authoritarian leader called the Mikado, overlay a 19th century English social hierarchy and now call...
The London Theatre Workshop presents Apartment 40C, a beautifully moving exploration of love and commitment, of loss and of choice. The first new musical conceived, written, workshopped and now mounted as a full production in the London Theatre Workshop, Apartment 40C is the creation of...
Music - Arthur Sullivan Libretto - W. S. Gilbert Director - Thom Southerland Choreographer - Joey McNeely Musical Director - Iain Vince Gatt Set Designer - Phil Lindley Costume Designer - Jonathan Lipman Lighting Designer - Mike Robertson with Rebecca Caine as Katisha Mark Heenehan as The Mikado Director Thom Southerland, who wowed critics and public...
Sell A Door Theatre have announced a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, which will open at Greenwich Theatre on Wednesday 11 February 2015, prior to a 33 date UK Tour. I welcome you, Edward Hyde. Welcome you with all my heart. For you are myself. And...
Music and lyrics - Howard Goodall Written - Howard Goodall in collaboration with Richard Curtis and John Retallack Direction - Bronagh Lagan Musical Direction - Freddie Tapner Girlfriends is set on a Bomber Command air base in Norfolk in the darkest days of World War II, amongst the volunteer...
The Rivals has arrived at the Arcola Theatre, 240 years after it was first performed in Covent Garden. A classic restoration comedy, it’s the perfect demonstration that with excellent direction, a fantastic cast and some musical instruments, an antique script can be transformed into a...
“It is amusing to note that Jacques Brel is something, much like Champagne or croissants, that the French are generally very reluctant to admit is not, well, French. Some might say that this is due to the fact that Brel remains to this day one...