The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time has been an awards magnet and one can see why in this touring production of the National Theatre sho...
To enter the crypt where this play is staged, the audience must first push past obstacles in the entrance - although they are light and easily-moved, ...
Poignant, funny, serious, naive, sophisticated... Every Brilliant Thing is an outstanding piece of theatre. The venue, a pop-up theatre that is assemb...
It is my growing opinion that the modern compendium musical is the replacement for old time vaudeville or music hall: for a popular entertainment that...
I happen to have seen this show in its original productions in New York and London as well as the film of the musical version and the original 1967 ve...
Polly Findlay’s Merchant of Venice is a decidedly mixed bag, like the giant pendulum which swings at the back of the stage, it moves from the ridiculo...
Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello has a deep split running through its middle. The first half is expansive and fast moving with the set changing flui...
Performed in a church in Shoreditch, with the audience sitting on pews only feet from the actors, this is an innovative and intimate exploration of Ha...
This is a difficult opera to like. Strauss wrote his great operas between 1905 and the start of the Great War – after 1914 he struggled to find the su...
I went to see this worried that the stage version would be overshadowed by the classic Doris Day/Howard Keel film and their performances. Certainly, t...
