Theatre

I was quite distressed at missing last year's thigh-slapping panto, Roy Hudd's Mother Goose which was apparently a corker, and this year’s seasonal offer at Wilton’s Music Hall is also an extravaganza but...

It takes a lot to put me in the mood for Christmas.  But if anything can, this inventive A Christmas Carol does, pulling together tip-top modern stagecraft, a venerated story, and our proudest 200-year-old...

2017 may not be London's best year for pantomime.  Rumours abound that even the ever-fresh and inventive Hackney Empire has produced an early Christmas turkey, and for up to £125 a seat at the London...

Is the Playhouse becoming London’s venue of choice for American stars’ vanity projects? Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends) chose it last year for his self-written piece The End of Longing, and in 2014...

The things I know about football could be counted on the fingers of the Venus de Milo, but - apart from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, which is being turned into an opera, and maybe Bend it Like Beckham,...

The Diary of a Nobody is one of those books you're convinced you've read, until you see it staged and realise that either you've forgotten it, or the director had a completely different idea.   In the case...

There’s a real sense of occasion at the opening night for Young Marx in the Bridge Theatre – former NT-director Nick Hytner’s £12 million baby set in a glamorous and upscale precinct around the...

The first crime uncovered in Witness for the Prosecution is that this amazing space, the glorious council chamber of the LCC then GLC at County Hall has not been pressed into service for site specific theatre...

Rising playwright Chris Thompson had an intense debut with Carthage at the Finborough Theatre, written from extensive personal experience as a social worker in the young offenders programme. Also...

They’re all at it. Michael Grandage at the Duke of York’s, Jamie Lloyd at Trafalgar Studios – it’s not enough to produce a play any more, nowadays you have to have a thematic ‘season’ with the same...