Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming's discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the pr…
The Broadway performer shot to fame without a safety net in The Greatest Showman. The resulting public scrutiny was painful, she says, but it was the ideal grounding to step into the shoes o…
With subversive scripts and a spotlight on local talent, this former principal boy is busy revolutionising pantomime " but there's still room for bawdy gags Few people have their spindle-pri…
When Atoosa Sepehr fled Iran overnight for a new life in London, family recipes helped her stave off homesickness. Now her story has been turned into a drama " with mouthwatering onstage coo…
She was the original Miss Saigon, sent Les Mis stratospheric and sang some of Disney's most memorable songs. She reflects on her legacy, and which of her princesses is best " Jasmine or Mula…
A new production in north London is bringing the rhythms of Jewish storytelling, humour and music to the seasonal theatrical staple What else would you call "Britain's first professional Jew…
The BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ turned theatre director is celebrated for his progressive, community-minded productions, so why is he bringing a children's TV cartoon about a dog to the stage? The pa…
My sixtysomething mother lacked confidence, but has reinvented herself as Manchester's answer to Mrs Maisel Ruth Linton, my mum, is an eternally overdressed, perennially late, sixtysomething…