Cats Opening Night
Nicole Scherzinger at the opening night of Cats yesterday. Pictured with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn, the new production at the London Palladium has been an immediate hit with critics.
World premiere of Gods and Monsters at Southwark Playhouse
With her production of Dogfight nominated Best Musical in the recent Evening Standard Awards, producer Danielle Tarento presents the world premiere of Gods and Monsters in a five-week season at Southwark Playhouse from February 5 – 7 March. The story follows Frankenstein director James Whale, who has been long […]
Theatre 503 announces New Spring Season
If the build up to Christmas wasn’t exciting enough the theatrical grotto of Theatre 503 is preparing a stash of plays to welcome in the New Year. Their spring season promises to blast any post-Christmas blues with a collection of new writing that ranges between the eclectic topics […]
Mr Tiger Goes Wild at the Chelsea Theatre – 4 Stars
The wilderness has crept into the Chelsea Theatre this Christmas bringing with it a sense of mischievous fun and rebelliousness. Mr Tiger has had enough of city trappings; the repetitive routine and predictable behaviour of his city dwelling friends. What he longs for is the spontaneity of the […]
Letters from Everyone: Drayton Arms- 4 Stars
A boy is murdered on the streets of London in the early hours of the morning. He is stabbed and left to die on the pavement. But this isn’t a gang-related crime, it’s the death of a middle class, university student, which somehow means the police take the […]
Theatre Uncut: Soho Theatre – 3 stars
Theatre Uncut began in 2010 as an artistic response to the cuts announced by the coalition government, in opposition to the impact that austerity has had on the arts. This year’s crop of five short plays, written by a selection of upcoming and established playwrights, are based on […]
Winners of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2014
Best Actor Award: Tom Hiddleston Best Actress: Gillian Anderson Best Director:Jeremy Herrin (Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies) Best Musical: The Scottsboro Boys Best Play: The James Plays
Sleeping Booty at Leicester Square Theatre – 2 Stars
Apparently, this is a phenomenon, and an institution even older than the John Lewis Christmas advert. Well, so the programme says. The long-awaited (well, twelve months) successor to the ground-breaking Dick! and its beloved sequel, Dick! Comes Again: Bigger, Longer, Harder!, like them the new arrival Sleeping Booty […]
Peter Pan at the Polka Theatre – 2 Stars
This classic children’s show has all the trademark touches of a Polka production; imaginative staging, wonderful puppetry, excellent casting, but the episodic nature of the piece makes it feel fragmentary, and therefore below the usually high Polka standards. This is an innovative adaptation, with the Darlings home set […]
New Shoes for RSC this Christmas
Following his acclaimed RSC debut, The Merry Wives of Windsor (2012), Phillip Breen returns to direct Dekker’s glorious city comedy of class, conflict and cobblers in love. What’s it about? Rowland Lacy loves Rose Oatley but it’s not going to work out. An aristocrat and a middle class […]
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