878 stories by "Ian Foster"
In this new version of Ibsen's play by Patrick Marber, director Ivo van Hove has the equally extraordinary talents of Ruth Wilson leading his company. And as with his revelatory A View From …
It is perhaps appropriate that for Stewart Pringle's final show at the helm of the Old Red Lion, he's gone with his beloved horror genre. And following in the success of their Arthur Miller …
I left it a little while to watch Fleabag on television, for though Phoebe Waller-Bridge's ascension to the ranks of hugely buzzworthy writer has been pleasing to watch, I haven't - dare I s…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge would have every reason to look stressed as she has certainly been keeping busy - writing and starring in two TV shows this year alone - and she also point to extraordin…
Anchored by a properly star-making and heart-breaking performance from Kaisa Hammarlund, Derek Bond's Royal Exchange production of Sweet Charity just works.
And because things come in threes, here's the news about West End Sings' Christmas single 'If We Only Have Love' by Jacques Brel. Released to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Childline and …
Also giving up precious time before Christmas in aid of a good cause, is this motley crew to the left. Rufus Hound will be hosting a concert featuring them at The Actor's Church in Covent Ga…
'Tis the season for goodwill to all, and proving most generous with their time are various sets of musical theatre performers who are doing all sorts of charitable endeavours this December. …
Crucially, Foster's production doesn't skimp on ambition or scope in its evocation of late 1950s Americana as Colin Richmond's design uses the full width and height of the stage and Nick Win…
With book and lyrics by Sean Grennan and music by Leah Okimoto and a rare talent for attracting a top-notch cast - this two-hander stars Olivier award-winning George Maguire and Rachael Wood…
It is now Drew McOnie who takes the directorial chair, the choreographer-director's rising star an ideal fit for a musical all about dance. And what dance it is.
Matthew White's production is as pretty as a picture, as a music box in fact, Paul Farnsworth's luxe design emerging as an exceptional piece of work, using four mini revolves to great effect…
The end of the silent movie era and the arrival of the talkies has proved fertile ground for many a storyteller, not least Betty Comden and Adolph Green's immortal Singin' in the Rain, but M…
I loved the Michael Webborn and Daniel Finn musical when I saw it premiere at the Landor last year and whilst we wait patiently for a cast recording (I asked Santa again and I have been a go…
I don't tend to see much circus. But the invitation to see NoFit State Circus' BIANCO was one that stood out for me, for I actually went to visit the company a few years ago when they were b…
Lucy Kirkwood's new play further ups the ante in making her protagonists sexual beings, her trio of retired scientists are battling not only the fallout from nuclear disaster but from the co…
Yes it is universal but yes, it is also unashamedly all the shades of the LGBTQ+ rainbow - and as director Matthew Parker gives us one final fabulous surprise at the last, my heart filled wi…
What you do get from the trilogy day though is a huge sense of occasion, and the undeniable truth of the significance of what has been achieved here. Unabashedly all-female productions of Sh…
Marianne Elliott, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Hill-Gibbins, Robert Lindsay, Roald Dahl and Arthur Darvill are amongst those rounded up here.
When The Last Five Years announced an extension of a week just after opening, it meant I was able to nab a pair of cheap tickets down the front, conveniently on the side where the shirtless …
Playing out in real time, Top to Bottom starts off as a dinner party gone awry. Alison and Jeff have gone over to Mark and Tom's for dinner and as they knock back glasses of wine and amuse-b…
If I want to have a good laugh, I would not go back to The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, for it really wasn't my cup of tea, at all.
There's something wonderfully political about the Lyric Hammersmith's pantomime Aladdin this year. Not just in Joel Horwood's script but in almost every aspect of Ellen McDougall's production
This revival of Soho Cinders at the Union Theatre is a little more festively timed and through Will Keith's direction and Joanne McShane's choreography, provides a level of entertainment to …
For Catch Me is a musical based around male suicide, the mental health struggles that lead people to such an act and the repercussions it has on those left behind.
