The week in brief (w/e November 11)
News and reviews from London and Broadway, plus interviews and tweets of the week.
News and reviews from London and Broadway, plus interviews and tweets of the week.
I went to see it four times, each time was more enchanting than the last, each show with different nuances. I found it difficult to choose my favourite song: the rousing Everybody Out? The a…
I really do hope that this show goes on tour. It really should!
I'm glad I'm seeing this before it closes. Though it never really stood out to me early on, I definitely agree we need to support British writing as much as possible.
The three stars beautifully convey their characters' quirks, individuality and hurts with an open-hearted generosity and rapport that makes it entirely captivating.
There's no doubting the boldness of this bonkers play about a special kind of madness, and its alternately outrageous and courageous view of a titled - and heavily entitled - family's feud, …
Stoppard, now 77, is still spinning the plates of philosophical enquiry and discourse in the world premiere of his latest play, but it presents hard dramatic, as well as intellectual, proble…
Jonathan Church's production, which originated at Chichester's Minerva Theatre late last year, is a handsome, thoughtful addition to the West End roster. It may sometimes be gruelling to wat…
Theatre Preview Date Opening Date Show Summary Buy Tickets Arts 17/07/2015 22/07/2015 American Idiot Buy Ticket Shakespeare's Globe 11/07/2015 22/07/2015 Richard II Buy Ticket Almeida…
This is no circus, but a massive barn-like structure big enough to accommodate a real-life train engine and a carriage.
An autumn rich in musicals in the West End may yet bring better ones, but it'll be difficult to find a more eye-poppingly lavish show anywhere than Wicked. And a musical about the castings o…
Straight after coming home from seeing War Horse, the now annual National Theatre production based on a children's book and designed for family audiences, I went online to book tickets to se…
The first half, alas, passes by in a lot of sluggish exposition and character development as we are introduced to the pirate band, before the second half takes more imaginative flight when t…
All the hits are here -- Man in the Mirror, Billie Jean, Bad, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, Can You Feel It etc -- and more (yes, Heal the World is in there, too).
Edward Hall's production has more room to breathe on the West End stage, with the action spilling happily beyond it into the stalls via a ramp that bisects the front rows. There is also some…