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Review: Summer Rolls, Bristol Old Vic 3.0stars Summer Rolls is commendably, and rather shockingly, the first British Vietnamese play to be staged in the United Kingdom. Fundamentally, it is …
Review: Chambers, Gingerline 4.0stars Subject to the secretive nature of this show, this review is somewhat cryptic, so as to preserve the experience for any future visitors. However, an unc…
Review: Southern Belles, King's Head Theatre 4.0stars Pride month may be over, but the King's Head Theatre is ready to take on the mantle with a succession of plays which celebrate the most …
Review: Schlong Song, King's Head Theatre4.0starsDeliciously devilish, irrepressibly irreverent, Woody Shticks entertains, astounds and glistens in his new one-man show Schlong Song. As expe…
James McAvoy is returning to the West End in a plum role. The Golden Globe- and Olivier-nominated actor will portray the title character in a new mounting of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Berge…
Review: Anything with a Pulse, Hen and Chickens Theatre 4.0stars Playful, lively and wonderfully funny, Anything with a Pulse by Eliana Ostro (who is both writer and director) depicts a tend…
Review: The View Upstairs, Soho Theatre5.0starsBe sure to have plenty of tissues at the ready as the European premiere of Max Vernon's Musical The View Upstairs sashays into the Soho Theatre…
Disney Theatrical has announced further casting for the highly anticipated London return staging of Mary Poppins. The previously announced production will begin performances on October 23 at…
Aisha Jawando, the multi-talented actress who originated the role of Alline Bullock in the world premiere of Tina"The Tina Turner Musical, will take over the title role in the Olivier-nom…
Whether you're going to Edinburgh this year or not, it's hard to miss the fact it's happening. AYT will be there covering as much as humanly possible and we cannot wait. Here's what we're mo…
Ethan Kai may be known to fans of British TV from the Yorkshire-set drama, Emmerdale, but the 25-year-old actor is making one of the most astonishing West End debuts in years playing the dis…
Review: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, The Pleasance Theatre3.0starsImmersive theatre is having a bit of a moment. From large scale productions like Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man, to in…
Director Jeremy Herrin's acclaimed staging of Michael Frayn's Noises Off is West End-bound. Following a 2016 Tony-nominated Broadway revival, which is currently playing a sold-out run at …
Review: Starved, Hope Theatre4.0stars"Homeless, hungry and horny", is a quote which demonstrates the duality of this rough and ready play; Starved jumps from comedy to tragedy with great amb…
Review: The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre3.0starsIt's September 1940, and Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon (Clive Owen) has just arrived at the Costa Verde Hotel. A disgraced pries…
Review: Amélie the Musical, Bristol Old Vic 4.0stars A masterfully crafted piece of storytelling, Amélie the Musical's characters are vividly and visually crafted through the unusually det…
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar, Barbican3.0starsWhat strikes me halfway through the first act of Timothy Sheader's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, is what a truly bizarre subject this …
Review: Grey, Ovalhouse 4.0stars A show about a young black woman's struggle with depression and misconception is understandably not a laugh a minute affair, but then again (at times) neithe…
Review: Tao of Glass, Royal Exchange Manchester5.0starsPoetry in motion is a phrase I often hear when watching the Formula One as the commentators describe how drivers elegantly navigate dan…
Andy Mientus has credits ranging from Spring Awakening and Les Miz to such TV series as Smash and Gone. But the Pittsburgh native can be found this summer within the intimate confines of Lon…
Toby Stephens (Oslo, Lost in Space) and Claire Skinner (Outnumbered, The Father) will return to the West End stage this fall in a new staging of Peter Nichols' 1967 play A Day in th…
New York audiences who didn't have a chance to catch the Lortel-winning off-Broadway run of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's hit solo comedy Fleabag will now have an opportunity to see it this fall…
Review: Peter Gynt, National Theatre 2.0stars Can money swing a show? It's a real worry in this business. Does having a large, famous cast set against an expensive or moving set always guara…
Review: Standing too Close on Our Own in the Dark, Hull Truck Theatre4.0starsIn many ways, Standing too Close on Our Own in the Dark takes gig theatre to its inevitable conclusion. Matthew C…
Review: Jellyfish, Dorfman Theatre4.0stars'But she always tells me I'm the same as everybody else' says Kelly. 'She' is her mother Agnes, who struggles to accept that her daughter is in …
