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Dana Rufolo in Vienna  30 May 2025 The big cultural event opening the 2025 Wiener Festwochen which runs from May

Annie Loui in Los Angeles 22 May 2025 Ainadamar is a spectacle of music, movement, and projection circling around the

Jane Edwardes in the West End 20 May 2025   David Ireland’s Cyprus Avenue, seen at the Royal Court Upstairs in

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg City 18 May 2025 In 1891, when Frank Wedekind wrote Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening), sexual mores

Neil Dowden in the West End 18 May 2025 First seen at Theatre Royal Bath last year, Lindsay Posner’s revival

Dana Rufolo in Belgium 16 May 2025 The theatrical opera Intolleranza 1960 as interpreted by OperaBalletVlaanderen (OBV) is the canary

Kat Mokrynski in the West End 15 May 2025 After celebrating ten years of The Play That Goes Wrong in

Tom Bolton in West London 15 May 2025 Kjersti Horn’s production of Jon Fosse’s Einkvan, visiting the Coronet Theatre on

Neil Dowden in North London 14 May 2025  Already a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and successful screenwriter, David Mamet made

Mark Shenton on the South Bank 10 May 2025 Barring the discovery of another previously unproduced show, Here We Are

Tom Bolton in West London 9 May 2025  Joel Tan’s new play Scenes from a Repatriation is an ambitious overview

Glenda Frank in Manhattan 6 May 2025 Since the groundbreaking Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 1998, there have been

Jane Edwardes in the West End 4 May 2025 The poster for My Master Builder – as opposed to The

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 2 May 2025 Who inspects the inspectors? Not the custodians of power, certainly, as this

Neil Dowden in Central London 2 May 2025 Samuel Beckett’s 1958 one-act play Krapp’s Last Tape seems to be on

Neil Dowden in the West End 2 May 2025 Patrick Marber’s award-winning debut play Dealer’s Choice explores the tensions between

Glenda Frank on Broadway 29 April 2025 Good Night, and Good Luck demands attention for reasons that go beyond George

Jeremy Malies in North Yorkshire 28 April 2025 Worried perhaps about potassium intake, Harold Pinter dispensed with the bananas when

Simon Jenner in South-West London 26 April 2025 “I pull people in,” says Benjamin Britten in September 1952, to a

Jeremy Malies in the West End 26 April Rosie Sheehy pecks out a few diminished chords on an upright piano

Franco Milazzo in the West End 25 April 2025 There have been various stage adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s epochal

Neil Dowden in North London 25 April 2025 The UK premiere of Neil LaBute’s 2017 play How to Fight Loneliness

Tom Bolton in West London 17 April 2025 The back of the Captain’s heavy, balding head is literally papered onto

Neil Dowden in North London 13 April 2025  A British–Hong Kong author, Amy Ng was a political historian before writing

Franco Milazzo in West London 9 April 2025  After Jack Thorne’s TV drama Adolescence and James Graham’s critically acclaimed play

Jeremy Malies in North London 5 April 2025 Is it an act of hubris (or worse) to both translate and

Neil Dowden in the West End 3 April 2025 The great Irish stage actor Micheál Mac Liammóir co-founded the Gate

Jane Edwardes in North London 3 April 2025 The dominant image of John Donnelly’s new play Apex Predator is of

Glenda Frank on Broadway 3 April 2025 Musicians are centre-stage here in this thrilling, rejuvenating musical about the passion for

Simon Thomas in Southwest England 29 March 2025 Turning well-loved films into stage musicals has been a thing for some

Glenda Frank 27 March 2025 This play tells the poignant compelling story of the improbable rise of a boy –

Neil Dowden in south-west London 25 March 2025 Female actors underpaid compared with their male counterparts, struggling to find substantial

Sasho Ognenovski in Bulgaria 21 March 2025 “Stronger than a lover’s love is a lover’s hatred. The wounds they inflict

Robert Schneider in New York 24 March 2025 Jordan Harrison’s new play is known colloquially as The Antiquities, but the

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 23 March 2025 There have been almost as many updates and repeat runs of

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 21 March 2025 Am I suffering from blue funk? Advanced anhedonia? How is it

Tom Bolton in the West End 20 March 2025 New York performance duo Natasha Roland and Xhloe Rice are fringe

Neil Dowden in East London  March 15 2025  Tennessee Williams made his name in 1944 with the lyrical domestic drama

Glenda Frank in New York 13 March 2025  One of the ways to attract new audiences into theatres is to

Neil Dowden in central London 13 March 2025  Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Schaubühne in Berlin since 1999, has had

Glenda Frank in New York City 7 March 2025 The unexpected lurks around every corner in this piece by Rajiv

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 7 March 2024 Another play in a tailor’s shop, this one set (and written)

Simon Jenner in the West End 28 February 2025 Spring 1747. God-fearing late baroque father of music tells truth to

Franco Milazzo in the West End 28 February 2025 Paul Hendy’s The Last Laugh takes three iconic British comedians from

Tom Bolton in West London 28 February 2025 The significance of Khawla Ibraheem’s one-woman play about life in Gaza has

Jane Edwardes in the West End 22nd February 2025 Anna Mackmin was brought up on a hippyish commune in Norfolk

Simon Jenner in North London 22 February 2025 “It doesn’t mean all women, okay.” Between a joyous wedding and breaking

Neil Dowden in North London 21 February 2025 Plays about different aspects of artificial intelligence seem to be all the

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 19 February 2025 Perhaps I’m not enough of a purist? I’m a sucker for

Neil Dowden in the West End 17 February 2025 Mike Bartlett’s new play Unicorn is a sort of companion piece

Jeremy Malies in the West End 17 February 2025 Director Jessica Lazar begins her portrayal of the island in David

Tom Bolton in West London 15 February 2025  The Passenger is adapted from a remarkable book. Its author Ulrich Alexander

Neil Dowden in the West End 15 February 2025  Eline Arbo, who succeeded Ivo van Hove as artistic director of

Simon Jenner in West London 14 February 2025 1803. A man brought from the gallows will be electrocuted back to

Simon Jenner in West London 13 February 2025 August 1942. “I feel I bring a lump of ice to the

Robert Schneider in New York 12 February 2025 On the evening I attended, audience members at the Samuel J. Friedman

Neil Dowden in the West End 10 February 2025 Robert Icke’s brilliant contemporary version of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Wyndham’s Theatre

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 9 January 2025  Theatre Re’s Birth is about families. The company founder and artistic director Guillaume

Neil Dowden in the West End 9 February 2025  Consecutive opening nights for radical revivals of ancient Greek tragedies by

Simon Jenner in south-west London February 9, 2025 “To hate all the people your relatives hate— / You’ve got to

Franco Milazzo in West London 5 February 2025 It’s a remarkably quick turnaround from page to stage for Second Best.

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 5 February 2025 My training in dramatic literature was badly bungled: I’d never heard of Steve

Franco Milazzo in the West End 30 January 2025  The beginning isn’t the beginning. The end isn’t the end. And

Dana Rufolo in Germany 18 January 2025  Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder – Mother Courage and Her Children – at

Tom Bolton in West London 23 January 2025 The set for A Good House starts empty, a bare stage surrounded

Neil Dowden in North London 20 January 2025 Samuel Selvon’s 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners (published two years after George

Dana Rufolo in Ghent 10 January 2025 Daringly, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen produced Salome by Richard Strauss (1905) under the baton

Simon Jenner in the West End 17 January 2025 “The planet is burning.” Such words have long been clichés but,

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg  8 January, 2025 Under David Mouchtar-Samorai’s sensitive direction, Endspiel (Endgame) is spread out like a poem

Mark Shenton in the West End 15 January 2024 “Oliver! really explains my passion for musicals,” Cameron Mackintosh has said

Jeremy Malies in the West End 14 January 2024 Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Jean Genet were all influenced

Franco Milazzo in the West End 10 January 2024 This Off-Broadway multi-award-winning smash – or should that be splash? –

Dana Rufolo in Germany 4 January 2025 Fatma Aydemir’s play Doktormutter Faust (“Doctoral supervisor Faust”) is a contemporary rendition of

Jeremy Malies in north London 24 December 2024 “I had that Dionysus in the back of the boat!” is one

Jeremy Malies in east London 23 December 2024 Winnie and Willie’s mound is unusual here. Bored from the start, I

Neil Dowden in North London 22 December 2024 Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 18 December 2024 Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes covers themes including indentured or coerced

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 15 December 2024 “Nothing succeeds like excess,” said Oscar Wilde. He might have been

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 14 December 2024 Our not knowing makes everyone more attractive. We see someone at

Tom Bolton in West London 12 December 2024 Sutara Gayle has had quite the life. Her one-woman show expresses remarkable

11 December 2024 Glenda Frank on Broadway Some people anguish over theological mysteries. Will we be reunited with family and

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 9 December 2024 Back in the day, little girls were said to divide into

Mark Shenton in the West End 6 December 2024 In a so far mostly dismal autumn and winter for new

Jeremy Malies in west London 4 December 2024 This one-actor piece sees Ruairi Conaghan give his memories of appearing as

Simon Jenner in West London 29 November 2024 For an unstated reason the press were quietly advised to use the

Simon Thomas in South West England 14 November 2024 Theatre Royal Bath plays host to a touring production of Eduardo

Mark Shenton in the West End 12 November 2024 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a new British folk

Glenda Frank in New York 9 November 2024 Robert Downey Jr’s depiction of the writer in McNeal by Ayad Akhtar’s

Simon Thomas in South West England 8 November 2024 Written by one of the finest of contemporary novelists, Kazuo Ishiguro’s

Tom Bolton in South London 8 November 2024 As part of Forced Entertainment’s continuing 40th anniversary celebration, co-founder Tim Etchells

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 5 November 2024 The new production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at Hartford Stage has

Neil Dowden in City of London 4 November 2024 Hanif Kureishi’s debut 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia (which was

Glenda Frank in New York 4 November 2024 I was seduced by theatre in part because of the many moving

Simon Thomas in South West England 1 November 2024  In a first coupling, Theatre Royal Bath and Living Theatre Productions

Neil Dowden in the West End 1 November 2024 The mood has turned apocalyptic in the West End. Stanley Kubrick’s

Neil Dowden in North London 28 October 2024 Richard Bean’s atmospheric new play Reykjavik about distant-water trawlermen from his hometown

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 23 October 2024 Adolescence is a former nationality that we renounce as we emigrate to adulthood.

Jeremy Malies in east London 22 October 2024 The ushers at Hackney Town Hall won’t let us in despite the

Robert Schneider in Connecticut 21 October 2024 If Luke Cantarella’s set for Fever Dreams (of animals on the verge of

Glenda Frank in New York 21 October 2024 While The Roommate, a two-hander by Jen Silverman, offers the actors substantial

Mark Shenton in the West End 21 October 2024 Every revival of a classic play is, of course, an opportunity

Tom Bolton in South London 21 October 2024 The title of Jon Berry’s new play is the Welsh word for

Jeremy Malies in South London 21 October 2024 Stage left the drawing of President McKinley struck down by Leon Czolgosz

Neil Dowden in the West End 20 October 2024 Not that it’s ever been in abeyance for too long, but

Glenda Frank in New York 20 October 2024 Yellowface is a quasi-autobiographical work by David Henry Hwang produced by Roundabout

Jeremy Malies in west London 18 October 2024 “What happens to a dream deferred?” In his poem “Harlem”, Langston Hughes

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 13 October 2024 Playwright Alexander Zeldin is best known for The Inequalities trilogy of

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg October 9, 2024 It is always a sign that theatre is well integrated into the cultural

Franco Milazzo in the West End 12 October 2024 “Much-anticipated” is a phrase that is often recklessly bandied about in

Jeremy Malies in East Sussex 10 October 2024 Director Iqbal Khan has reinvigorated Art by Yasmina Reza. I wonder how

Jeremy Malies in the West End 9 October 2024 A maimed young man, two paramilitary executions, disappointment over an inheritance,

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 8 October 2024 “Hello. Hi. You don’t know me yet … but my name is

Jeremy Malies in North London 6 October 2024 John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger hasn’t been seen in

Neil Dowden in South London 6 October 2024 Born in 1855 – the year between the births of Oscar Wilde

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 5 October 2024 “Queenie! Come in! The water is lovely!” Rarely have such clichés

Jeremy Malies in North London 4 October 2024 “My people are not caricatures. They are real (though fiction), and if

Neil Dowden in west London 2 October 2024 In a 1982 TV interview, when asked how he’d like to be

Jane Edwardes in north London 29 September 2024 Playwright Rob Drummond is not to be trusted. At the beginning of

Neil Dowden in the West End 29 September 2024 At one time Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot tended to be

Simon Thomas in the South West 27 September 2024 It is tempting to think that in 2024 we are edging

Jeremy Malies in south-west London 27 September 2024 A play is a poem in which “the action is not related

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 25 September 2024 Kwame Kwei-Armah’s final show as director while leading the Young Vic

Robert Schneider in East Haddam, Connecticut 17 September 2024 This new musical by Scottish-born country star Johnny Reid in collaboration

Dana Rufolo in the Czech Republic 8 September 2024 If This Is A Man by Primo Levi has always been

Jeremy Malies in west London 15 September 2024 “You can pretend you’re her!” “No, I have to be her –

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 14 September 2024 First staged in 1982, The Real Thing is deservedly one of

Jeremy Malies in north London 12 September 2024 The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 musical by Richard Rodgers and

Jeremy Malies in north London 10 September 2024 Accustomed to tricksy titles at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where I missed

Tom Bolton in East London 9 September 2024 In the basement studio at the Arcola Theatre, instruments are set up

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 4 September 2024 When the novel on which this play is based first came out

Jeremy Malies in the West End 3 September 2024 Peter Hall used to say that good politics always makes bad

Tom Bolton in West London 31 August 2024 Upstairs at the Royal Court the set, by Madeleine Boyd, consists of

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 21 August 2024  Behind every Ideal Husband there’s an idealist wife: or so Wilde mischievously

Jeremy Malies in the West End 19 August 2024 From Lawrence Krauss to Stephen Hawking by way of Oppenheimer, Einstein,

Simon Thomas in South West England 10 August 2024  On paper, director Richard Jones and playwright Harold Pinter is a perfect combination.

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 10 August 2024  It seems the year for Oliver Twist. The Matthew Bourne/Cameron Mackintosh production

 Mark Shenton in North London 9 August 2024  After the sheer, unadulterated joy of the current Palladium revival of Hello,

Mark Shenton in North London 5 August 2024  “Who am I anyway? / Am I my résumé? / That is

Jeremy Malies in the West End 5 August 2024 Death of England: The Plays by Clint Dyer and Roy Williams

Mark Shenton in West London 25 July 2024 In an evolving musical theatre landscape, shows that are designed to both

Mark Shenton in West Sussex 25 July 2024 Producer Cameron Mackintosh has his own name alone above the title of

Glenda Frank  in New York 25 July 2024 For almost a decade, some of the best theatre has been played

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 24 July 2024 What is it with food on stage now? Everything from Next

Jeremy Malies in West London 21 July 2024 “We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” said Joan Didion. But

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 19 July 2024  “Is there a serious production of this?” asked one audience member en

Mark Shenton in the West End 19 July 2024 “Well hello, Dolly, it’s so nice to have you back where

Simon Jenner in East Sussex 18 July 2024 It seems pure Patrick Barlow, but as a programme detail reminds us,

Dana Rufolo in Belgium The two finale performances I saw on the weekend of 6-7 July, 2024 – Jenůfa in Ghent

Neil Dowden in North London 16 July 2024 Christopher Hampton’s adaptation of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s 1922 novella Letter from

Neil Dowden in the West End 13 July 2024 Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play garnered a then record-breaking 12 nominations

Jeremy Malies in the West End 13 July 2024 Plays and musicals set in factories include The Factory Girls, The

Mark Shenton in the West End 10 July 2024 The impressive programme brochure for Your Lie in April is designed

Mark Shenton in north London 2 July 2024 The third-longest running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical to be launched across the

Tom Bolton in North London 2 July 2024 English is set in a classroom of the kind recognizable throughout the

Jeremy Malies in the West End 1 July 2024 Give this your best attention if you want to see a

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 1 July 2024 Joe Penhall’s absorbing new play The Constituent is a pertinent dramatization

Mark Shenton in the West End 28 June 2024 London is awash with back to high school musicals: Babies, currently

Tom Bolton in West London 23 June 2024 The entirety of Stewart Pringle’s The Bounds takes place on a small

Mark Shenton in central London 20 June 2024 The biggest and splashiest new production to open in London in the

Mark Shenton in the West End 17 June 2024 Musicals about teenagers are all the rage right now. The Outsiders,

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 17 June 2024 “You’ve got a lot of stuff here!” says Ian McDiarmid playing Davies,

Tom Bolton in west London 16 June 2024 Italian company lacasadargilla bring their touring production of Caryl Churchill’s short play

Simon Thomas in the South West 14 June 2024 During her all-too-brief tenure as Artistic Director of the Ustinov Studio,

Simon Jenner in west London 7 June 2024 “It’s wrong to hate, they say. It’s wrong to love, too,” the

Jane Edwardes in south-west London 7 June 2024 In 1965, Noël Coward finished three plays, one full-length and two short

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 4 June 2024 There’s a watery theme developing at the National Theatre. In London

Mark Shenton in the West End 4 June 2024 Jenna Innes and Keelan McAuley. Photo credit: Pamela Raith Photography. Yet

Jeremy Malies in west London 2 June 2024 “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action …”

Dana Rufolo in Luxembourg 2 June 2024 Once again, Frank Hoffmann, artistic director of the Théâtre National du Luxembourg (TNL)

Simon Jenner in west London 2 June 2024 “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 31 May 2024   In 1970, a park ranger discovered Chinese characters carved into

Simon Jenner in West Sussex 31 May 2024 Mid-eighteenth-century gothic is a niche genre, but Jamila Gavin’s 2,000 novel Coram

Jeremy Malies in Romania 30 May 2024 “No quote from Schopenhauer ever raised a penis.” Well, the authors of the

Mark Shenton in south London 28 May 2024 The Young Vic has long pivoted itself on the more experimental spectrum

Simon Jenner in south-east London 25 May 2024  In some ways composer/lyricist Jerry Herman (1931–2019) was a pioneer; and for

Jeremy Malies in Romania 23 May 2024 At festivals worldwide, be it Timișoara or Brighton, we return to the Greeks

Simon Jenner at Brighton Festival 21 May 2024 The UK regional premiere of Steven Dykes’s 2004 Homestead opens at Brighton

Neil Dowden in north London 20 May 2024  All credit to Hampstead Theatre for once again staging the UK premiere

Franco Milazzo in the West End 17 May 2024  In her first scene, Denise Gough’s aspiring actress Emma loudly declares

Jeremy Malies in West Sussex 10 May 2024  Strindberg’s 136-year-old play Miss Julie (albeit in a radical workover) proves its

Simon Thomas in the South West 10 May 2024 A few decades ago seeing a Terence Rattigan play seemed like

Franco Milazzo in the West End 9 May 2024 If the avalanche of movie-to-stage adaptations is becoming something of a

Jeremy Malies in the West End 8 May 2024 My last exposure to The Cherry Orchard, in Hackney, took me

Dana Rufolo in Austria 6 May 2024 Frank Castorf, the director of this Thomas Berhard play, certainly never learned to

Simon Jenner in west London 3 May 2024 A story by American sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick isn’t the first

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 23 April 2024 “This is the story of a river / That springs from

Simon Jenner in north London 19 April 2024 A woman sits and plays the piano at St Pancras International Station

Tom Shortland in Cambridgeshire 18 April 2024  The School for Scandal is a Restoration comedy about a perfectly innocent woman

Neil Dowden in north London April 17 2024 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has established himself as one of the leading young American

Glenda Frank on Broadway 15 April 2024 Water for Elephants is one of the most beautifully crafted musicals to vault

Jeremy Malies in the West End 9 April 2024 As Mary, the morphine-addicted matriarch hurtling towards oblivion at the end

Mark Shenton in south London 8 April 2024 The late Kevin Elyot wrote only a handful of plays, but they

Simon Jenner in west London 8 April 2024 This is the purest theatre I’ve seen at the Royal Court in

Simon Jenner on the South Bank 8th April 2024 “This … is not about me,” Charlotte Brontë (Gemma Whelan) keeps

Tom Bolton in north London 8 April 2024 “Make Mine a Double”, the Park Theatre’s initiative to get more early

Jeremy Malies in south-east London 4 April 2024 “They wouldn’t have lasted a day in the Sixties!” For me, it’s

Mark Shenton in the West End 1 April 2024 Known as the “King of Pop”, Michael Jackson has cast a

Simon Thomas in the South West 1 April 2024 Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre in

Simon Jenner in north London 30 March 2024 April De Angelis is back tackling a subject at which she often

Jeremy Malies in West London 28 March 2024 “I always knew when nothing was going to happen.” Frank Hardy, the

Mark Shenton in the West End 27 March 2024 “You gotta make magic out of tragic,” we are repeatedly told

Neil Dowden in the West End 26 March 2024 Tyrell Williams won a clutch of awards for most promising playwright

Glenda Frank on Broadway 24 March 2024 “Sex.” “Scandal”. These words snag our attention. Other words stimulate the imagination –

Mark Shenton in the West End 24 March 2024 Why are nuns so irreverently and inherently funny, at least for

Yann Messager reports from 6th arrondissement February 2024 How does one wrap one’s head around the idea of suffering? To

Tom Bolton in south London 18 March 2023 As Figs in Wigs point out, it takes a lot of development

Mark Shenton in the West End 15 March 2024 Philip Brugglestein, Harry Clarke’s lonely narrator and fabulist who invents an

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 13 March 2024 Tim Price’s new play Nye is an entertaining if episodic portrait

Jeremy Malies on the South Bank 8 March 2024 Harold Pinter used to banter with friends by quoting bizarre moments

Robert Schneider in New Haven, Connecticut 4 March 2024   Productions of this wonderful play abound internationally. Chichester Festival Theatre

Jeremy Malies in the West End 5 March 2024 I had been transfixed for much of it, transported through three

Neil Dowden in the West End 4 March 2024 Lucy Kirkwood’s ambitious new play The Human Body packs in a

Neil Dowden on the South Bank 1 March 2024 German playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s 2022 work Nachtland (here given its

Mark Shenton in south London 28 February 2024 With the ever-alarming rise of the threats of fascism and antisemitism around

Mark Shenton in east London 24 February 2024 When the original 2004 production of The Big Life transferred from the

Neil Dowden in the West End 23 February 2024 In its satire of political corruption and media bias, Ibsen’s 1882

Mark Shenton in the West End 22 February 2024 Like The Who’s Tommy, which began its rock-opera life as a

Neil Dowden in north London 21 February 2024 John Logan’s fascinating new play Double Feature is a close-up view of

Yann Messager in Paris 19 February 2024 Simon Stone’s Traviata, with gripping musical direction by Giacomo Sagripanti, is a grandiose

Glenda Frank in Manhattan 19 February 2024 We slip into Days of Wine and Roses — now at Studio 54

Jane Edwardes on the South Bank 19 February 2024 It is difficult to approach the National Theatre’s revival of Dodie

Jeremy Malies in Hove 14 February 2024 They say only organists go to organ concerts. Whether audience members who surrounded

Mark Shenton on the South Bank 14 February 2024 Jukebox musicals have become the lazy bane – or easy balm,

Neil Dowden in west London 11 February 2024 Frantic Assembly’s first new commission since the pandemic is an adaptation by

Simon Thomas in the South West 10 February 2024 The origins of the legend of Bluebeard, the serial wife-killer, are not