Theatre

Try for a moment to imagine what might have happened if celebrated poet W H Auden and Berlin-based conceiver of Cabaret’s Sally Bowles Christopher Isherwood had together written ‘The League of...

It may be better not to have seen the movie Fanny and Alexander. Coming to the stage version untainted you’ll have a stronger chance to enjoy an exuberant energy and ribald theatricality that doesn’t...

A good old-fashioned play about good old-fashioned politics. Gore Vidal’s 1960 satire The Best Man is based around the Democratic convention where in reality JFK won his nomination. Each of Vidal’s...

There are a few things you just can’t say about musical theatre without inviting the opprobrium of a fan base – ‘Elaine Paige isn’t a very versatile singer’ might be one, ‘not many Prince...

A trans-generational romance bracketed by two suicides may not seem ideal comedy material but 1971’s mainstream flop Harold and Maude became an unlikely cult movie, making ‘top 100’ lists after a 2012...

Before there was Meghan, before Kate’s bump, Pippa’s rump, Fergie’s indiscretions or the tabloid gift-that-keeps-on-giving which was Diana, the press devoured Princess Margaret as a constantly watchable...

I tried seven different puns for 'ruff' to illustrate Robin Hooper's Foul Pages at the Hope Theatre.  But you can make up your own. A feisty countess (Clare Bloomer) commissions Ian Hallard’s pliant...

We’re visibly, audibly on a windswept moorland in Chloe Lamford’s dirt-shovelled set for Gundog and start well with two excellent actors - Ria Zmitrowicz who was movingly one of the Rochdale grooming...

SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED AT JULIUS CAESAR: The Bridge Theatre is still a lovely venue, and the flexibility of staging is astonishing. Its great that £15 day tickets are available and young audiences can...

Bethnal Green, right?  Where tricky city slickery rubs shoulders with East End rough: it could not be a more appropriate setting for Tom Salomon’s The Grift, transplanted from its site-specific debut in San...