Sunday, December 17, 2017
Christopher Biggins is back in gorgeous frocksIt's always good news when Christopher Biggins announces he's going to don false bosoms again to play a panto Dame, and Aladdin offers lots of f…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18PMThursday, December 14, 2017
Less than the sum of its partsIt raised some eyebrows when Al Murray announced he was to make his pantomime debut – top comics rarely make that crossover these days – but, considering hi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:18PMSunday, December 10, 2017
A fresh and inventive reworkingPantomime may be a very old art form, but the Lyric Hammersmith has been injecting some freshness into it each year since 2009, and this year's production, wri…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:33PMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Energetic retelling of the showman's storyYou have to hand it to Menier Chocolate Factory, a venue that doesn't let size matter as it stages an all-singing, all-dancing new production o…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:04PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Dominic Dromgoole's Oscar Wilde seasons opens with a winnerIn a rather clever wheeze, Dominic Dromgoole, former artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe – who therefore knows a thing …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:12PMWednesday, August 30, 2017
Magnificent setting for history playTemple Church gained worldwide fame when Dan Brown included a major plot point there in his mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code in 2003, but it has been …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04PMWednesday, May 24, 2017
Emma Rice's revival is a wonderful synthesis of artformsTristan & Yseult has become something of a calling card for Kneehigh, which was founded in 1980 and is now the unofficial Nat…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:18AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Female sexuality – as voiced by a male comicThis monologue first saw the light of day at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015. It's a frank – very frank – piece about female sexuality by an an…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:05AMFriday, April 21, 2017
Revival of Christopher Hampton's academic satire Christopher Hampton's witty comedy, first performed in 1970, ingeniously inverts Molière's The Misanthrope, centring as it does on a ma…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:12AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
Ian Hislop's engaging First World War play reaches the West EndYou may be having a moment of déjà vu, as Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s new play (which lands in the West End after a U…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:54AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Maria Friedman's revival of frothy comedyRichard Harris's award-winning comedy about a group of seven women and one man who attend a weekly tap-dancing class in a dingy north London chu…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36PMThursday, December 15, 2016
Welcome return of pantomime to this iconic venueWhat a joy it is to have pantomime back at the Palladium, the first at this glorious theatre in 29 years. And the producers of Cinderella have…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:33AMFriday, November 4, 2016
Terrific revival of Terry Johnson's modern classicTerry Johnson's Dead Funny debuted at the same theatre in the West End in 1994 (after opening at Hampstead), and its starting point is …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:36AM 
