Chichester Festival Theatre's premiere of Andrea Levy's moving saga, The Long Song, doesn't hit a wrong note both as a telling reminder of this country's involvement in the slave trade and t…
Roy Williams' incendiary 2002 play, Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads, which attacks grass roots racism with all the finesse of a vintage Vinnie Jones tackle, is back and spewing vitriol in Ch…
Big, the film, holds a special place in everyone's hearts but this musical version is out of step and time.
Ross McGregor, artistic director and powerhouse behind Arrows & Traps Theatre Company, has captured the zeitgeist with his modern, political adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The St…
Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Shakespeare's famous tragedy Macbeth, led by John Simm and Dervla Kirwan as the corrupted couple, marks a homecoming for director Paul Miller.
The Weatherman, Eugene O'Hare's full-length debut play opens with brief sunny spells but it's clear that the forecast is for a stormy and changeable production.
There are probably not many people left alive who remember the controversial coast to coast US tour of Othello from 1944. It was remarkable for two reasons. Singer and political firebrand, P…
While it would probably go down well at, say the Edinburgh Fringe, The Actor's Nightmare's maverick style and piecemeal production, not to mention a reliance on a clued-up audience, makes it…
Peter Shaffer's shocking, disturbing and provocative thriller Equus has galloped back into the West End this week with an electrifying revival from Ned Bennett.
The stage adaptation of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernières' award-winning book about love in the war-torn Island of Cephalonia, has come to London's West End after a successful …
Gregory Doran's timely and riveting adaptation of Measure for Measure is filled with laugh-out-loud humour, but there is also a bleaker side to it that makes it very much a play for today.
The 'technical difficulties' that unexpectedly halted the opening night of Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith brought the house down. They couldn't have been funnier than if they'd been pla…
Noël Coward would have thoroughly approved of Andrew Scott's gloriously outrageous turn as ageing matinée idol, Garry Essendine, in The Old Vic's reinvention of Present Laughter.
If I could look into Madame Arcati's crystal ball I think I would see a West End transfer on the cards for Richard Eyre's playful production of Blithe Spirit.
Ultimately, all eyes are on Rachael Stirling in Plenty and she stylishly carries this story of disillusionment to its inevitable, if uncertain, conclusion.
Anthony McCarten has put together a top-notch drama in The Pope which is brought to life by the outstanding performances of gifted character actors, Anton Lesser and Nicholas Woodeson.
Strictly 's meanest judge, Craig Revel Horwood, sashays into Milton Keynes Theatre next month with a perfect score of terrific reviews for his performance as the gin-sozzled, tyrannical Miss…
Beneath the Blue Rinse, running at London's Park Theatre " along with a Glover short called The Answer " is a morality tale where the elderly get their own back on a society that would rathe…
Githa Sowerby used her own upbringing as the daughter of a Tyneside glass-making family for her breakthrough play, Rutherford and Son, but whether her father was as cold, insensitive and bul…
Amelie The Musical oozes Gallic charm from Daniel Messé's evocative music to the enchanting performance of its luminous star, Audrey Brisson.
The halcyon days of school and the opportunities it afforded her mother has led Wise Children artistic director Emma Rice to adapt Enid Blyton's classic boarding school story, Malory Towers,…
York Theatre Royal is behind the wheel for a new production of Alfred Uhry's award-winning comedy-drama Driving Miss Daisy which takes to the stage next month with Maurey Richards steering P…
Sherlock Holmes is back on stage in a thrilling new adaptation of The Sign of Four that takes audiences from the heat of India and the height of the British Raj to the foggy streets of Londo…
Andrea Levy's award-winning and sprawling epic Small Island retells an uneasy moment in Britain's recent history through the eyes of the people involved. But what a glorious story it is.
Tim Firth's charming and warm-hearted musical This Is My Family has opened Festival 2019 at Chichester Festival Theatre and it's impossible not to leave the show with a cheesy grin on your f…