504 stories by "Jonathan Baz"
Caroline, or Change is a curious show that sees a five-star cast deliver distinctly flawed material. Set in an early 1960s Louisiana.
Simon Callow's telling of A Christmas Carol at the Arts Theatre is theatrical perfection. A solo performance, aided only by subtly ingenious projections and the occasional, immaculately time…
With Berlin's classic numbers and in the gifted creative hands of director Nikolai Foster and his choreographer Stephen Mear, White Christmas becomes a fabulous feel-good delight.
Expectations are high for a festive ghost story from the National. With its world-class resources, the theatre offers a wondrous potential to stage the most chilling of tales and when the so…
As one of dance's most iconic productions, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake returns home to a rapturous reception.
Returning to the RSC and the Barbican for The Merry Wives of Windsor after his triumph in Titus Andronicus last year is David Troughton as the drunken and self-proclaimed womaniser, Falstaff…
In another example of London's fringe theatre at its unmissable finest, Chasing Bono at Soho Theatre offers an evening of flawless entertainment.
In an exciting and ambitious move for one of London's leading Off-West End venues, the Park Theatre splashes the cash on its Christmas production and with flying experts Foy on board, have a…
Writer/director Susie McKenna delivers her 20th festive production " Aladdin " with a show that captures the diversity of her London patch, yet cleverly avoids cultural appropriation and all…
In eschewing any trendy political statement to hang around his work, Nunn has made it all the more poignant and powerful. Deservedly sold out for the rest of its Menier run, his Fiddler On T…
You enter a dark basement in the heart of the West End. RuPaul is blaring, lights are flashing and there is dancing. Yet this is not a club. Instead, it's Hot Gay Time Machine.
Squeezed into a lean and tightly filled two hours, Sam Shepard's True West is an acerbic glimpse of domestic dysfunctionality that plays out in sweltering Southern California, a blasted back…
Ennio Morricone played London for the last time this week, his farewell visit to the capital heralding the gifted composer's imminent retirement.
Running at the National Theatre prior to a Broadway opening, Hadestown offers a uniquely folksy and enchanting take on the tragic tale of Orpheus and his love, Euridice.
In James Fenton's adaptation of Cervantes' 17th-century classic, the fabled antics of Knight Errant Don Quixote are given a contemporary understanding that still preserves the original's ric…
Romeo & Juliet, with Karen Fishwick and Bally Gill as the leads, arrives at the Barbican as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's London residency. Although written over four centurie…
'There's no fool like an old fool' is an adage that sums up much of Honour, now playing at the Park Theatre. The play introduces Henry Goodman and Imogen Stubbs as married couple George and …
Sholom Aleichem In The Old Country is at once charming, funny, sad and yet it is ultimately tragic. Not because of any serious disaster that befalls the characters, but rather because it off…
This Macbeth should be an absolute blinder with such a strong and perfectly brooding lead… but unfortunately, the production falls a little flat in pivotal places.
Performed at the Bridewell Theatre in an enticing lunchtime slot, Welcome…? is a ground-breaking play that seeks to challenge the narrative around out-of-work pregnant female actors and is…
Gamblers, gangsters and nightclub singers mingle together in 1950s New York in Guys & Dolls, Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' 'musical fable of Broadway', which returned to L…
Scott Alan's The Distance You Have Come " a song cycle drawn from Alan's work to date " has been fashioned together in this two-hour gig and is an event of uplifting beauty and hope.
An evening at Marianne Elliott's production of Company at the Gielgud Theatre is unquestionably fine theatre. Everybody rise.
The Inheritance at the Noel Coward Theatre has been rightly lauded as a major piece of 21st-century theatre and Lopez has a gift for crafting argument and dialogue with sensitivity and innat…
As Brexit remains headline news across the country, People Like Us, a new comedy from writers Julie Burchill and Jane Robins, examines how this polarisation of political opinion has cut a sw…
