Solo plays are everywhere these days and why not? So it's not too surprising to note the renewed interest in All On Her Own, a slice of Terence Rattigan esoterica that premiered on TV in 196…
Now, it's time to cast a glance at those stage musicals in London that brought to the attention of keen-eyed playgoers various people whom the world would get to know later.
The cumulative effect is of a lot of well-meaning performers acting into a digital void or, perhaps, delivering audition speeches for some sort of drama school panel that exists just out of …
Sam Tutty was five months into his career-making star turn on the West End in Dear Evan Hansen when the pandemic shut London theatres down last March. Far from sitting idle, the industrious …
Since 2019, Tinuke Craig has fielded various iterations of her first-ever musical, The Color Purple, which was acclaimed in performance at Leicester's Curve Theatre and the Birmingham Hippod…
Last week, we looked at the early stage work of a quintet of actors who have gone on to celebrated work, and a wider public, onscreen. But the same trajectory is every bit as true of Britain…
Many British screen stars may seem to have come to public attention as comparative unknowns, but not to theatre devotees. What follows is a list of five actors whom I managed to catch early …
An ever-mutating virus has led to general uncertainty on and off the West End about the start-up of live performance. That shifting scenario in turn brings to mind some of the titles from th…
There's been much discussion about the presence of Black actors in Regency England on the Netflix show, but performers of color have been playing historical roles in London theaters for deca…
From Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim via David Tennant's West End return, London is poised for activity post-pandemic
'Dick Whittington' never opened at the National but can be seen online
Out of pandemic-driven chaos and confusion came moments of clarity - and "Blindness" "Goodbye": The single word lingered heavily in the air last March 16, as the scripted closing both of th…
Andrew Lincoln invents Scrooge afresh in robust seasonal perennial As proof that you can't have too much of a good thing, consider the return of Matthew Warchus's buoyant production of A Ch…
Comic double-act reviewed the night before performances were suspended indefinitely
The 'Goes Wrong' team brings their irrepressible improv show to the West End
Dickens redux, noisily but with brio The twelve days of Christmas have nothing on the flotilla of Christmas Carols jostling for view this season, each of which is substantially different eno…
The Almeida Theatre reopens for the first time since March.
Taut Pinter revival sacrifices the play's darkly comic underlay Add the Hampstead Theatre to the swelling ranks of playhouses opening its doors this month, in this case with a revival well i…
Simon Russell Beale and Patsy Ferran in fresh adaptation of Dickens
Paul Harvard's ambitious debut play needs further focus A 35-year-old gay man has to figure out which way to turn in GHBoy, the Paul Harvard play whose connection to the chemsex world is emb…
The first coronavirus shutdown caught playhouses unawares, but they learned lessons that stood them in good stead when the shutters came down again.
Our critic looks back on 32 years with a publication he was with from its very first issue, in 1988.
Interview with MARY POPPINS leading man Charlie Stemp
Opening and closing night were the same for vital solo show Broadway tends to be the Darwinian environment where a show's opening night can also mark its closing.
Two long-running immersive theater productions " "The Murdér Express" and "The Great Gatsby"" offered some much-needed merriment just before a new lockdown hit England.