The stage adaptation of Captain Corellis’ Mandolin, Louis De Bernières’ award-winning book about love in the war-torn Island of Cephalonia, has come to London’s West End after a
We might think that the sex-for-favours and #MeToo scandal is a modern phenomenon. But Shakespeare had exposed the depraved trade-off more than 400 years ago in Measure for
The ‘technical difficulties’ that unexpectedly halted the opening night of Noises Off at the Lyric Hammersmith brought the house down. They couldn’t have been funnier than if they’d
Noël Coward would have thoroughly approved of Andrew Scott’s gloriously outrageous turn as ageing matinée idol, Garry Essendine, in The Old Vic’s reinvention of Present Laughter. Scott, aided
Jennifer Saunders is well used to conjuring up a cast of bizarre characters for her TV sitcoms. So channelling the ghost of the late, great, Margaret Rutherford, for
Meghan Kennedy crams a lot into her coming-of-age drama, Napoli, Brooklyn – from child abuse and sadistic torture to a plane crash over New York and a downpour
David Hare’s Plenty, a story about post war disillusionment coupled with a woman – a nation – struggling to get back on its feet, caused considerable controversy when
Anthony McCarten’s new play, The Pope, goes behind the pomp, ceremony and politics of the Vatican City to look at a pivotal moment in papal history when the
Those over a certain age will recognise the patronising tone, the condescension. Where once they had been respected by the younger generation they are now treated with disregard
There’s not a scrap of love in this house! It’s intolerable. Githa Sowerby used her own upbringing as the daughter of a Tyneside glass-making family for her breakthrough
It was pink, fluffy and camp. It was Legally Blonde – performed by Trinity Laban Musical Theatre in a showcase at Stratford Circus Arts Centre in London. Legally
