Theatre

An American signage manufacturer stumbles through hilarious mistranslations and the fog of understanding to win a contract and possibly the heart of a crisp and wanton female politician. Chinglish is a slick...

I am named after a Tommy.  My great uncle Private John Warburton of the Lancashire Fusiliers who lied about his age to join up in 1914 as a bugler, later a stretcher-bearer killed on the Somme 23 May...

I am in love. This is ‘the one’. I have been waiting years for a musical of this quality, of this range of imagination and musical excellence, and of this sheer unadulterated beauty to arrive in London....

The first thing to say about the tour of La Cage Aux Folles is it has to be Bill Kenwright’s most generous production to date: no expense has been spared in beautifully detailed sets – some stunning...

The recently-founded London Musical Theatre Orchestra is a massively welcome addition to the capital’s music and theatre scene. It enables book musicals to experience the richness of orchestration and power...

‘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...