878 stories by "Ian Foster"
The opening production in the 'Summer of Love' is Daniel Kramer's Romeo and Juliet and following Rice's lead, it is bold and brash, full of light and sound, and the kind of ferocious energy …
Last year you couldn't move for productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and whilst it hasn't quite gotten that bad yet, it looks like Twelfth Night is 2017's popular choice.
A stunning piece of provocative performance art, Cock and Bull grabs Tory political rhetoric by the pussy, slaps it on the arse, tells you to 'calm down dear' and then dares you to look away.
After their residency at the Apollo, the Showstopper team have skipped along to the Lyric where they have been performing their brand of improvised musical on a random selection of Mondays, …
Victoria Willing's Spring Offensive is a spikily fresh take on the First World War and its enduring legacy, a bold move for the Clapham Omnibus and one which does pay some dividends.
Blinded in a childhood accident, Louis Braille's keen intelligence saw him ruffle feathers at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth where he resided, mainly because prevailing societal attitud…
Directed once again by David Mercatali, assisted here by Flore Vialet, the play is currently previewing at the Leicester Square Theatre in their lounge space, ahead of playing the French Fri…
Inspired by the legend, for which there is no factual basis, that seventeenth century Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ordered that the hands of all the craftsmen who were involved in the construct…
Anne Brontë might not be the most heralded of her sisters but that is to underestimate the different way in which she expressed herself. The striking feminism of The Tenant of Wildfell Ha…
Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr have announced the opening programme for their The Bridge Theatre venture " the 900-seat commercial venue near to Tower Bridge which marks their re-entry into …
In Polly Sullivan's starkly uncompromising arena, designed in the round and directed by Tom Attenborough, we first witness a psychiatric session between the high-functioning Mary and her cle…
A monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
It's fascinating to be able to revisit shows along their developmental cycle. I first saw Miss Nightingale in its initial chamber-musical incarnation at the King's Head back in 2011 and sinc…
We talk about broken hearts at the end of relationships oh so easily, but what if it was actually true, what if a break-up manifested physically on the person left behind? That's one of the …
Sadly, their current revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - the first major one in this country since its 1963 premiere - falls on the side of the fatally old-fashione…
There's much to enjoy in One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, not least the joyous celebration of some of the most enduringly famous music in the world. And writer and director Kwame Kwei-Armah…
In the rush to dole out the five star reviews that seem de rigueur for any big musical these days (22 for An American in Paris so their new poster shouts proudly), there appears to be a will…
The news of Tim Pigott-Smith's passing at the age of 70 yesterday was a terrible shock, not least because he was still in a rich creative vein - a tour of Death of a Salesman was scheduled f…
Laura Wade's Posh first appeared in 2010 at the Royal Court, again in 2012 in the West End, and then in cinemas as The Riot Club in 2014 - each time piercing something of the privilege aroun…
I'm fully on board with Yellow Earth Theatre's objectives of identifying and investing in British East Asian emerging and established actors, writers and directors, so it does pain me a litt…
"It's an honour just to be nominated..." Come award season, these words are often heard but you do have to wonder what it feels like to be the only member of a four person ensemble that isn'…
It's black and white - no means no. That should be enough right? Except all too often, sadly it isn't, and the many different ways in which this is true form the bedrock of Consent, Nina Rai…
Designer RÅ«ta IrbÄ«te converts the stage into a section of the Suffolk coastline that writer Tallulah Brown grew up around and under Simon Gethin Thomas' sun-bright lighting and Daniel …
An opportunity to see this play in dress rehearsal was snaffled away from me at the last minute so stubbornly, I'd opted not to see it. But the offer of a friend's spare ticket and the good …
Riffing on the chuckles that come from mistranslated menus and signs (I swear, it is one of my favourite things to do in touristy abroad), Chinglish follows the efforts of an American busine…
