Chichester Festival Theatre
This Is My Family – Review
| May 5, 2019
Families. We’ve all got them, for our sins, and they’re bloody hard work. But sometimes they can be a force for good. Tim Firth’s charming and warm-hearted musical,
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National Theatre
Small Island – Review
| May 5, 2019
They fought for their ‘mother country’ yet the Windrush generation, who came to Britain from Jamaica to seek a better lives for themselves, were treated like the enemy.
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Finborough Theatre
Jane Clegg – Review
| May 2, 2019
Maverick Irish playwright, St John Ervine didn’t shirk the tough issues when he put pen to paper. Unmarried mothers, sectarianism and the suffrage movement were all featured in
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Reviews
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Review
| May 1, 2019
Fats Waller was so inventive that he got a nightclub jumpin’ whether he was singing about stockings and big feet or bigotry and hatred. That prodigious talent has
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News
The Crown’s Claire Foy & Matt Smith reunite for new season at The Old Vic
| April 30, 2019
Matthew Warchus’s new season at London’s The Old Vic, announced today, sees the premiere of Lucy Prebble’s A Very Expensive Poison and The Crown’s royal couple, Claire Foy
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Reviews
Other People’s Money – Review
| April 25, 2019
Hostile takeovers, corporate greed and company acquisitions are big news at the moment so a revival of Jerry Sterner’s 1980s satire, Other People’s Money, couldn’t be more timely.
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News
Starry casts and thrilling premieres. Theatre Royal Bath summer season finalised.
| April 22, 2019
Jonathan Church’s summer 2019 season at Theatre Royal Bath has added four additional productions to complete its programme. Vienna 1934-Munich 1938, The Life I Lead, Trying It On
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Donmar Warehouse
Sweet Charity – Review
| April 20, 2019
Director Josie Rourke ends her tenure at the Donmar Warehouse with a hip revival of Sweet Charity that pushes Anne-Marie Duff out of her comfort zone and shows
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News
Broadway’s Andy Mientus joins John Partridge in The View Upstairs at Soho Theatre
| April 18, 2019
Andy Mientus, Declan Bennett, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Cedric Neal and John Partridge will star in the European premiere of the new musical, The View Upstairs, which comes to London’s
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Milton Keynes Theatre
The House on Cold Hill – Review
| April 17, 2019
It had to come. If you’re writing a modern day haunted house thriller I can’t think of anything better to be the subject of demonic possession than the
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Features
Susan Penhaligon heads royal revival of Moira Buffini’s Handbagged
| April 15, 2019
Two formidable figures – the Queen and Margaret Thatcher – are reunited in Moira Buffini’s funny, sharp and mischievous comedy, Handbagged which is at York Theatre Royal later
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Jack Studio Theatre
Queen of the Mist – Review
| April 13, 2019
The remarkable story of Anna Edson Taylor should be known to everyone. She is arguably one of history’s most fearless and extraordinary women and yet, tragically, she lies
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