878 stories by "Ian Foster"
West End leading lady Madalena Alberto will perform in the new concert series Pizza Express Live! in Holborn on Sunday 3rd December 2017, 8pm.
What surprises most about the play is the way in which it manages to combine its smart study of the fluidity of sexual identities with a classic comedy model, and pull both off successfully.
Jukebox musicals are fine in their place, movie adaptations likewise are ever increasingly the norm, but they need love and inspiration to elevate them.
The world of artificial intelligence may feel like the realm of sci-fi but in reality is closer than we think, the next frontier in the progression of scientific knowledge. And Ian Dixon Pot…
The floorboards in Sidney Bruhl's isolated barn conversion may squeak underfoot, but there's nothing creaky about Adam Penford's smart revival of Ira Levin's 1978 play Deathtrap.
Ferociously strict principal Sister Aloysius is convinced that there is inappropriateness occurring between parish priest Father Flynn and the school's first black pupil, but her views are c…
Austerity bites. And it seems like it often bites hardest on the arts, government thinking considering them a luxury rather than a necessity as libraries and those relying on arts funding ha…
Tony Cox's play Mrs Orwell did sufficiently good business in its run at the Old Red Lion last month that it has quickly transferred south of the river, to the Southwark Playhouse for an addi…
love a good actor-musician production but here, the integration of musicianship and drama just hasn't been thought-through, even down to instruments getting in the way of scenes - it feels a…
Shona White is a rather under-rated (for my money at least) Scottish actress and singer perhaps most famous for stints in Mamma Mia which were 12 years apart, but whose musical theatre credi…
True story, until last week I thought Bombay Dreams was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Not having seen it onstage nor listened to it before, all I knew was the Lord's name was attached to i…
The announcement of the new cast for Broadway's hugely lauded Hello, Dolly! has been a most strange affair - names trickling out one by one, rather than one big splash.
Alex Gwyther's Eyes Closed, Ears Covered is beautifully put together in the way that it reveals just what that is - exploring the intersection of past trauma on present behaviour, questionin…
The Coney Island setting undercuts any attempt to get close to the gothic horror of the opera house, the 'freak show' elements are desperately tame there. The swerves into rock are ill-advis…
Noel Sullivan will forever be a member of Hear'say first and foremost to me, the product of one of first of this generation of Saturday night music talent show - Popstars " but since then, a…
This mahoosive new tour of Hairspray started in the middle of last month and stretches right through to June 2018 and it certainly feels like it has the potential to be a great success.
And sure enough, surrendering to the thrill of Ruthie Henshall and Ute Lemper here was a genuine pleasure and a great way to revisit Kander & Ebb's score.
Using the original book with just a smattering of small changes, this is musical theatre close to its most luxurious, and a bittersweetly life-affirming thrill to watch.
The story follows the pursuit of fame, money and love and how the three intersect in the intertwined stories of Trinity, Marcus and Lorna. But where the show has maintained a fairly positive…
Volume 2 of Ben Forster's Acoustic Covers followed a year after the first, responding to its success and Forster's rising profile. And in tribute to his fanbase, he crowdsourced suggestions …
Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio may date from 1987, but in its dissection of shock jocks and their role in manipulating media and fomenting the rise of the kind of right-wing ideology, it ca…
Winner of ITV's Superstar and now well-established West End leading man, current Phantom Ben Forster has released two solo albums of acoustic covers called, well, Acoustic Covers.
Director Joseph Hodges and casting director Harry Blumenau have really done the business in selecting a terrific trio to lead their show.
Drip by drip, the National is teasing us with the cast reveals for Network. Latest to be announced is Douglas Henshall who is to play Max Schumacher in this world-premiere of Lee Hall's new …
Cabaret is a show which has had many a revival and many a cast recording made from those productions but it is Rufus Norris' 2006 interpretation that seems to have lingered the longest; a ne…
