Anne Washburn (she of the extraordinary Mr Burns) has fashioned this play out of eight of the stories told by The Twilight Zone and presents them as if shuffling a pack of cards.
Emma Rice scores one of her biggest hits on Bankside with a musical that couldn't be more Emma Rice if it tried. As it is, it fits perfectly into the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, shaking up the …
The album is nearly completely stymied by its song selection, misguidedly mishmashing its genres so that we're taken from traditional carols to easy listening to the Fleet Foxes to original …
Between hosting The Chase, appearing in his regular Peter Pan panto and preparing to become one of the 13th Doctor's new companion, it's a wonder he's managed to find time to record a new al…
There's superlative work from Gyre & Gimble's puppetry, Loren O'Dair and James Alexander-Taylor's work with the wolf is exceptional, and the whole show is just as satisfying and challen…
Change doesn't just happen, it has to be ushered in by visionaries determined to shake up the status quo to allow the rest of us to shuffle in in their wake.
Matthew Parker is best known as the Artistic Director of the Hope Theatre but this production of 1920s Aldwych farce Thark sees him go west, to the Drayton Arms pub theatre, a lovely fringe …
Already a tale of stirring adventure, the joy of Russ Tunney's adaptation for the stage is that it revels in its theatricality, taking a much different but no less effective route.
No matter the weather, as you walk into the Lyttelton's auditorium for Pinocchio, you'll find that it is snowing. A simple trick but one that inspires just the right childlike wonder for an …
No opportunity to parody Disney's Beauty & The Beast is passed up, from the wealth of French influences (the Camembert Art Fair; the under-rated star of the show - Bicyclette!) to James…
"Buck up kiddies"Theatres that aren't putting on pantomimes face something of a dilemma - what do you do to ensure you capture audience attention in this most lucrative of seasons? Some thea…
A sadness that is at first unspoken, then as the letters they read take a poignant turn - revealing a year's worth of bad news in some cases - their melancholy bleeding out to force them to …
Michael Buffong's reinterpretation of Guys and Dolls, a co-production between the Royal Exchange and Talawa Theatre, is just that, a bold re-envisioning of the classic musical that consequen…
This musical version of Louisa May Alcott's much-loved novel is a wonderful piece of adaptation. Streamlining plot whilst simultaneously enriching character, it translates the travails of th…
There's a wonderfully rough magic to Justin Audibert's production of The Box of Delights that makes it the perfect choice for Wilton's Music Hall's festive show.
As many of us lurch from swapping random Secret Santa gifts at office parties to necking eggnog at pantos (just me?!) in preparation for the culinary bliss that is my dad's Christmas dinner,…
Can I recommend Goats, even with live goats appearing onstage with the cast? Not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin. There's definitely something interesting at the nub of Liwaa Yazji's pla…
The race to declare the most exciting show for 2018 has well and truly been declared by Complicite with Grief is the Thing with Feathers, a new production based on the award-winning novel by…
I could try and describe a plot that included strict fathers, thought-dead mothers, butterfly collecting, mannequin construction, and cat murder but it's impossible to convey how sublimely s…
La Soirée is a scrumptious smörgÃ¥sbord of entertainment, an ever-changing line-up of acrobats and daredevils and comedians and burlesque acts and so on and so forth, who ask you to put …
A piece of magic-infused escapism that shifts tonally between whimsical frivolity and real psychological acuity, tear-jerking drama and comic romps, and as such, can feel hard to pin down.
Marisha Wallace's Soul Holiday is a delightfully warm and happy collection, destined to put smiles on faces this Christmas.
Unmissable director Jude Christian is helped here by a magnificently fearless piece of writing from James Fritz, split almost schizophrenically into two contrasting parts.
That it is sold out shouldn't stop you from trying to get tickets - there's Friday Rush and there's refreshing this page in case of returns, and boy is it worth it.
Sarah Redmond's production for the Brockley Jack thankfully forgoes any gimmickry with a relatively straightforward interpretation, and if the result is comforting rather than pulse-quickeni…