26 stories by "Liz Cearns"
Craig Lucas, Daniel Messe and Nathan Tysen's musical adaptation of the acclaimed filmAmelie, which ran on Broadway in 2017 and now kicks off a UK tour,fills the Watermill's stage with the mu…
Fiddler On the Roof brings the Menier Chocolate Factory to the Playhouse Theatre. As the audience enters, the walls are bedecked with hangings as drab as most of the costumes - the wardrobe …
Some shows might transfer or extend their run. The cast of Austentatious, however, have commenced a season's residency at the Fortune Theatre, and might thereby hope to introduce their impro…
The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires have returned to London. This night of surprising variety, offers awe-inspiring escapism from the winter's chill and seems to be scheduled just in time…
The Other Palace was intended to be a 'space where writers and producers can try out and refine new work'. Showstopper The Improvised Musical only seems to be aiming for half of this ethos. …
One of the most instantly noticeable things about War Horse is the diversity of its audience's ages a children's book if enjoyed by many a parent or independent adult turned into a play and …
One of the most instantly noticeable things about War Horse is the diversity of its audience's ages a children's book if enjoyed by many a parent or independent adult turned into a play …
A year after its first run, Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone returns to the Royal Court Theatre.This rather strange play is split between garden chit-chat and apocalyptic horrors, though dire…
The Royal Shakespeare Company have burst back to the West End with their double bill of Love's Labour's - both Lost and Won. This pairing really is a remarkable achievement. Set in the summe…
With their new season of site-specific work, Theatre of Europe have achieved the almost impossible an original take on the world's most-performed play, Ibsen's A Doll's House.
It's been twenty years since Mark Ravenhill's notoriously titled Shopping and Fking was first staged at the Royal Court.In his foreword for the Lyric Hammersmith's anniversary production, Ra…
A one-person show - in this case performed with formidable skill by Lisa Dwan - Beckett's No's Knife is certainly an unusual choice by the Old Vic. Truly, though, this production is even mor…
Eden Espinosa joins Max von Essen, Derek Klena, Natalie Weiss, Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices, and More in Raise Your Voice A Cabaret for a Cure to Benefit the Leukemi…
Maury Yeston, the composer and lyricist best-known for Nine and Titanic, visited the West End a few months before the West End opening of his new musical, Death Takes a Holiday. Based on a f…
Genesis Future Directors Award recipient Bryony Shanahan directs trade, Debbie Tucker Green's sharp examination of our transactional world. See Me Now is anew show created and performed by t…
Actor, vocalist and activist Theodore Bikel died July 21, 2015 at age 91 in Los Angeles. He will be remembered in a memorial concert in New York City, titled 'Remembering Theo - an evening o…
Lazarus Theatre Company's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore has opened at Soho's Tristan Bates Theatre. This production merges John Ford's gory and uncomfortable 17th century classic with the current …
'If only the world loved black people as much as they love black culture' - an excerpt Bola Agbaje's powerful new piece, 'Bitches'
Actor-musician Simon David revives his sell-out show, 'Simon David Virgin' for the Camden Fringe Festival.
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's brilliant adaptation of George Orwell's formidable novel has returned the West End, following international tours and its very successful London run last s…
The musical - or pantomime - of the year has arrived at the Prince Edward Theatre. We check it out
A few days after cast change, I checked in with 'Mamma Mia's new Sophie Sheridan the lovely Sanne den Besten., who was kind enough to share a little of her Abba and other musical theatre exp…
The musical - or pantomime - of the year has arrived at the Prince Edward Theatre. We check it out
Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford direct Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the penultimate show of the Branagh Company's year long residency at the Garrick Theatre. This well-known cast includes…
A quick insight into what's happening this September in London's theatres...
