Lucy Moss puts the 'camp' into campus with her riotous, inclusive revival The 2001 Reese Witherspoon-starring film Legally Blonde, upon which Heather Hatch, Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjami…
Baz Luhrmann's jukebox fantasy is the perfect antidote to Covid gloom One of the many theatrical casualties of Omicron in December was the official UK opening of Moulin Rouge!, the stage ver…
The stage version of the beloved animation looks set to become a West End staple Let it snow! The Broadway musical adaptation of the Disney film behemoth Frozen premiered back in 2018 and no…
This new livestreamed monologue explores family and the burden of inheritance The world premiere of Stephen Beresford's new hourlong play, livestreamed to home audiences in five performance…
A standard screen-to-stage transfer, but hugely welcome post-lockdown Originally due to premiere back in March, Sleepless " a musical version of the winning 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle "…
Jason Robert Brown's abstract musical offers resonant tales of the unexpected We've already had The Last Five Years in lockdown; now, we get a digital production of American composer Jason R…
Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical gets another shot on screen The movie adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights was meant to hit cinemas this summer, but, in response to …
Jason Robert Brown's chamber musical has new lockdown resonance A musical featuring two people who are physically separated? Jason Robert Brown's work is a shutdown natural " as this new dig…
This filmed version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical captures its eccentric charms Cats is, declares composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, a show that doesn't really have a story, but was beloved on…
The remarkable Patsy Ferran anchors a creatively updated classic Swaggering pirates, X marks the spot, a chattering parrot, "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum"? All present and correct. But Br…
Howard Brenton's play offers a lucid account of the Partition of India This week's gem from the Hampstead's vaults is Howard Brenton's political drama from 2013, telling the extraordinary, s…
Sally Cookson's take on Brontë is innately theatrical and ferociously resonant The National Theatre's online broadcasts got off to a storming start with One Man, Two Guvnors " watched by …
Head to Instagram for a 2018 production with plenty of 2020 shutdown wisdom The way that theatres and other arts institutions have leapt into action over the past week, providing a wealth of…
We're celebrating the great man's birthday with favourite numbers - mine's from 'Follies' Surely there's never been a more apt time for Sondheim's great cry of defiance? "I'm Still Here" is …
Jason Robert Brown's conceptual relationship musical gets an enriching new layer There's concept on top of concept in this revival of Jason Robert Brown's beloved 2001Â musical, which cha…
This mammoth stage adaptation is more splashy than spiritual The theatre gods rained down not fire and pestilence, but a 45-minute techincal delay on opening night of this substantially revi…
This flawed but trenchant new spy drama asks who's watching the watchers With counter-terrorism an urgent concern " and specifically how best to find, track and use the data of suspected thr…
Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe lead a lively double bill "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." Director Richard Jones has certainly taken Beckett's words to heart in this vividly comic, …
Chris Bush's retelling has feminist urgency, but lacks dramatic coherence Changing the gender of the title character "highlights the way in which women still operate in a world designed by a…
Current events lend urgency to this historical work "Take our country back!" is the rallying cry of the self-identified "real" Americans gathered to protest the arrival of immigrants.
The Cold War 'Match of the Century' fails to translate into compelling drama We've had Chess the musical; now, here's Chess the play. Tom Morton-Smith, who has form wrestling recent history …
A stirring new musical tackles missed connections in the internet age Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is an institu…
Everyone's favourite nanny returns, again It's been 15 years since Cameron Mackintosh's stage musical version of P. L. Travers' Mary Poppins made its West End debut.
Both mystical and alcoholic spirits infuse this wonderfully distinctive chamber musical London's latest new theatre opens with an appropriately otherworldly Halloween offering: American comp…
An Ealing comedy film becomes an intermittently entertaining play A hit comedy about a textile scientist? It might sound unlikely, but Ealing Studios' 1951 sci-fi satire, starring Alec Guinn…