Mike Lew's riff on Shakespeare needs more art to go with its heart If good intentions were everything, Teenage Dick would be the play of the year. As it is, this British premiere at the Donm…
Jodie Prenger came to attention as the winner of the BBC reality TV competition series I'd Do Anything in 2008, as a result of which she got to play Nancy in Oliver! in the West End for the …
As they take on more challenging themes, provocative material and divisive subjects, the capital's theatres have never felt so vital.
Period confection in three acts could use pruning There's slight (White Christmas, to name but one) and then there's The Boy Friend, a period musical so unabashedly vaporous that if you …
Jordan Belfort memoirs translate unpleasantly, even unnecessarily, to the stage Of all the groups you probably wouldn't want to be part of, surely the hyper-adrenalised, hardscrabble popula…
Seasonal entertainment is cheerful if essentially dull Nostalgia for things that probably never were is an animating theme in politics these days.
"Dear Evan Hansen" is the latest Broadway musical to open in the West End, along with the pop bonanza "& Juliet" and nearby, the quietly powerful "Ghost Quartet."
Miriam-Teak Lee was something of an overnight sensation when she played Claire De Loone in the 2017 Open Air Theatre Regent's Park revival of On the Town, since which time she went on to und…
Michael Greif has shepherded Dear Evan Hansen successfully into port many times at this point, but only now is the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner being seen outside North America. Its W…
In the first part of our chat with the ever-vital Elaine Paige, the English musical theater legend spoke about making the shift into radio and the excitement that has accompanied this unexpe…
Elaine Paige needs scant introduction as the "first lady of the British musical theater," a title that the veteran star of Evita, Cats, Chess and Sunset Boulevard, to name just a few of her …
The stars of "The Crown" are back together in a production in London.
Annie Baker's latest will divide opinion but reward devotees The National Theatre is forging its own special relationship with American playwright Annie Baker, having now produced three of h…
London has seen numerous Phantoms in the 33-plus years since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera had its world premiere before going on to become a global phenomenon. Bu…
High Fidelity didn't last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southwes…
Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who…
Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it's sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
The Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
Whether it's finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn't had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represented…
The ever-likable Mischief Theatre's latest stretches them in new if still-unfinished ways If ambition were all, Groan Ups would get an A*. Marking the first of a very welcome three-show res…
Sondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival "Every now and then the country goes a little wrong": so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-John W…
Henry Shields is an invaluable part of London's invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, Pe…
Athol Fugard's 1982 self-exorcism is searingly revived Time has been kind to Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys. It's a stealth bomb of a play that I saw in its world premiere pro…
Lloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, an…