17 stories by "Izzie Leach"
Off-beat. Dissonant. Silences in staccato. The Ghost Sonata at the Rose Playhouse, Bankside is a production that certainly captures the aura of odd, disquieting mystery that pervades the 190…
In her last world tour as a dancer, Sylvie Guillem celebrates the end of 39 years of dancing in Life in Progress, a performance that concludes her professional stage credits that range from …
It is rare that a piece of theatre convinces you to love it in the first 10 seconds. Maybe I am guilty of impulsive decisions, but the Royal Court Theatre's production of Constellations at R…
Centre stage and bathed in a faint blue glow are the two rows of car seats that make up the interior of a Bluebird Nissan, the taxi owned by Jimmy MacNeil (played by Malcolm Freeman). Surrou…
At a running time of just 90 minutes, director Benjamin Blyth's production of Shakespeare's King Lear does an impressive job of staging a play that usually runs for about three hours. With a…
The Union Theatre's production of Whistle Down the Wind is surely one of the more unique and atmospheric performances of this musical. Adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor, and based …
The Lounge, nestled beneath the foyer of the Leicester Square Theatre, is a remarkably appropriate place to stage a production of The Waiting Room. Thanks to the dimly lit interior and the r…
Letters? Hand-written notes? Even a thank you card? It’s not hard to see that a good old handwritten letter is a rare occurrence these days. As I take my seat in the Soho Theatre I …
"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd" is an opening line that has been heard a lot recently, especially in the wake of the 2012 West End revival of Sondheim's celebrated musical. Now, with the o…
Before embarking on a national tour, The Globe brings a reworking of its 2013 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Rose Theatre for just three days. In this lively, entertaining…
Written by the award-winning Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Edges is a coming-of-age musical that deals with the classic questions life as a young adult poses, and the struggles of four young f…
Translations, written in 1980 by Brian Friel, is a play that fuses the power of language and communication against a backdrop of 1833 rural Ireland. Under James Grieve's direction of the mod…
We live in a world so dependent on electricity that we’ve all found ourselves, at some point or other, wondering what would happen if it all just… stopped. Beth (Emma Pallant) and Fr…
When Christmas lights and cold weather descend on Richmond Theatre it can mean only one thing: pantomime time. This year it's the well-loved Peter Pan, reimagined in the swashbuckling glory …
An ethereal blue light greets you as you walk into the Ovalhouse theatre. In the pool of darkness, a single table and two chairs are illuminated. It's almost cinematic. The atmosphere is dre…
Eight new plays by eight different writers, The Tell 8 is a collection of plays ranging from a therapy session in a dystopian society to an exploration of language during the 2011 referendum…
The outcasts, the forgotten, the unsung… aren't we always drawn to root for the underdog? Divas Unsung for one-night-only is the grand rekindling of long lost musical theatre gems sung …
