Reviews

‘Waiter, have you got frog’s legs?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Well hop over the counter and fetch me a bacon sandwich …’ - is about the only old joke not shorehorned by Nathan Lane into his adaptation of...

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If, as she says, Corrie and EastEnders veteran Michelle Collins wants to shed her 'soap actress' image, she needs to find bolder challenges than Stewart Permutt's comic but empty two-hander A Dark Night in...

There are few theatrical pleasures greater than witnessing the formidable Imelda Staunton graft fresh insights onto a well-known role: it can be almost as exhausting to watch as to do since you can't look...

If you can get a ticket - and queues for returns have started before 6am - there's every chance you’ll love the Almeida Hamlet even if you’re not specifically lusting after Andrew Scott (Moriarty from...

When Chicago premiered in 1975 it shook up its prohibition-era hoodlums and chorus girls with a fizzing cocktail of jazz, booze, sex and Bob Fosse choreography standing what had been the former Broadway image...

Anyone Can Whistle: the Sondheim flop whose signal moment in the original 1964 production was when a dancer fell into the orchestra pit, inadvertently killing the saxophonist. Another actor had a fatal heart...

Are standards slipping at English National Opera? It’s one thing to rent the place out to Michael Grade in a slack period and smile and pretend to be nice when he casts Katherine Jenkins in a leading...

There are few divas for whom you would queue an hour in the pouring rain on a cold night in January, but it was almost worth getting trench foot to witness the extraordinary, uplifting, generous and eclectic...

Best I can say about Dirty Great Love Story is it could make a great date night for Valentine’s Day because your own relationship will seem so much better than dopy Richard and neurotic Katie’s in this...