Reviews

There is undoubtedly a thrill in seeing a huge and highly professional ballet company perform one of the classic masterworks in one of the city’s most beautiful settings. If you have an impressionable young...

Does Beatrice love Benedick?  Does Macron love May?  The entente cordiale is alive and well in award-winning Antic Disposition’s lively production of Much Ado About Nothing. It’s worthwhile for two...

In Tom Latter’s stolid revival of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at the Park Theatre, relocation to Hull does a lot for the pitiable poverty, nothing for the snappy Lancashire dialogue whose rhythms are...

It’s turning in to a great season for the student theatre showcases – the British Theatre Academy (which features Cameron Mackintosh on its website) is split between Southwark and Stockwell Playhouses with...

“Good morning, Matron, and whom do we have here?” “Good morning, Dr Tinkle – this is Mr Bennett, he’s suffering from chronic sentimentality with complications of mawkishness and false...

'She's a little bit Hairspray, he's a little bit Glee ...' is not actually a lyric from Bring It On, a high school musical being given a sparky showcase by the British Theatre Academy at Southwark Playhouse,...

There were moments when this was actually frightening. It's interesting to see Tommy Steele at 81 playing a London audience, which he clearly loves but whoever he was, he wasn't Glenn Miller. Glenn...

All the advance publicity for Knights of the Rose gave me a sense of foreboding. I thought the Arts Theatre had hit rock bottom with Ruthless but it seems there is further to go. This hideous mash-up of...

Seventy years before Maria left the abbey to look after the von Trapp children, British governess Anna Leonowens sailed to Bangkok to tutor the 82 princes and princesses of the Siamese court, far outranking...

At last, the Young Vic has come of age. Fun Home marks one of the best productions it has housed, and breaks new ground for musical theatre. Fun Home charts the real life steady progress towards coming out...