Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Emmet Kirwn's two-hander, starring himself as Jason, a wannabe DJ and Ian Lloyd Anderson, as his long-lost drug addict brother, is highly charged theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:36AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
The UK premiere of Thom Southerland's musical, 'Death Takes A Holiday', is based on the 1928 Italian play of the same name, which went on to inspire the film, 'Meet Joe B…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:12AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
On 1 September 2004, the children were celebrating the start of the new academic year at School No 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia (part of the Russian federation). They had brought in balloons a…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:12PMThursday, January 19, 2017
The UK premiere of German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, which was written in response to the resurgence of the far right across Europe, couldn't be more timely with the …
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:54AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
The revival of musical, 'Promises, Promises', is based on the Oscar-winning 1960 Billy Wilder movie, 'The Apartment', but it doesn't lend itself well to the now all-…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:54AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Katherine Soper's debut play about two siblings coping with benefit cuts, zero-hour contracts and OCD, was winner of the 2015 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:36AMThursday, January 12, 2017
An invented terrorist atrocity is the topical subject of this tragicomedy by Stuart Slade that imagines a plane from New York downed in the Fulham area with half a dozen survivors
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:36AMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Matthew Spangler's stage production of 'The Kite Runner', based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling 2003 novel, makes its West End debut
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AMFriday, January 6, 2017
The rediscovery of Tony Harrison's, 'The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus', in its first London production since 1990, is directed by Jimmy Walters
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:48AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Matthew Warchus's programming coups at the Old Vic this year have included the Glenda Jackson King Lear and Tim Minchin's musical version of Groundhog Day. Now he turns to this twe…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:33PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
The play has many contemporary resonances from Brexit to Aleppo
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:12AMMonday, December 19, 2016
Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams are exceptional in Schiller's play
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:33PMThe productions underline the rich resonances between these comedies
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:33AMThursday, December 15, 2016
The West End premiere of 'Dreamgirls', starring 'Glee's' Amber Riley, takes you on a supercharged journey with the fictional band The Dreams, loosely based on The Su…
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:36AMMonday, December 12, 2016
Michael Frayn's comedy of errors, based on Chekhov's posthumously discovered early play, stars Geoffrey Streatfeild as an unfortunate Russian Don Juan
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:12AMThursday, December 8, 2016
Matthew White's revival of the musical, written by the authors of 'Fiddler on the Roof' is a heartening treat this Christmas
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:36PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
The comedian Enfield makes his stage debut in this classic Broadway comedy, directed by Richard Jones, which is set during the momentous advent of the talkies
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:42AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Following the well-recieved 'Jane Eyre', director Sally Cookson brings her original production of 'Peter Pan' to the National Theatre, after a sell-out run at Bristol Old…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:36AMFriday, December 2, 2016
Hollywood actor, Ed Harris, makes his West End debut in 'Buried Child' with his real-life spouse, Amy Madigan, who plays his wife in the Sam Shepard revival
SOURCE: The Independent at 03:24PMThursday, December 1, 2016
Premiered at The National Theatre in 2012, 'This House', written by James Graham, gives a moving and witty insight into British politics
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:48AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Direct from a sold-out New York run, Mark Rylance returns to the West End to star in his hit new comic show 'Nice Fish', which he also co-wrote with Louis Jenkins - and for anybody…
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMFriday, November 25, 2016
Kirkwood's three-hander which centres on two retired nuclear scientists living in an isolated cottage after a Fukushima-type power station disaster will stay with you long after the cur…
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:54AMWednesday, November 23, 2016
'The Tempest' concludes the final part of Phyllida Lloyd's trilogy of all-female Shakespeare productions including 'Julius Caesar' and 'Henry 1V' at the Do…
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AMFriday, November 18, 2016
Beale stars in Gregory Doran's production of 'The Tempest' which makes the first use of live motion capture in a major classical production
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMEV Crowe's new play is about a woman who has a desire to sew in a rural village in pre-industrial England but the group she learns from grow suspuicious of her
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Based on the cult film with a new score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, this broadway hit about the empowering force of music on a class of pre-teens in a posh prep school, opens in the West End
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:48AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Stephen Daldry's award-winning production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns to the West End with an excellent cast
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:42AMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Playwright Jonathan Maitland turns his focus to the topical issue of doping in sport in his latest play written for the Park Theatre
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:06AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth by Walter Tevis, this musical by David Bowie and Enda Walsh, has transferred from New York with Michael C Hall reprising his role as Thomas Ne…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:48AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Glenda Jackson returns to the stage to play King Lear, 25 year's after she gave up acting for politics
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:36AMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Milton's Comus twists the conventions of the masque, taking the audience on a tempestuos journey
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:18AM 
