Samuel Collings, from Hammersmith in West London, is one of the UK’s most versatile actors and can be found on stage, screen, radio and voicing audiobooks.
If the multi award-winning TV drama Succession taught us anything, it’s that no one can take Brian Cox’s place.
There are meaty themes, moments of humour and insight, and the standard of professionalism you’d expect from a Royal Shakespeare Company production first staged in Stratford in 2013 and now playing at the Lyric Hammersmith.
They say two’s company and three’s a crowd.
A still very debonair Nigel Havers as dashing Elyot, and Patricia Hodge, very much at the top of her game as sensational Amanda – aged 72 and 75 respectively – command the stage of the newly refurbished Ambassadors Theatre.
2:22 A Ghost Story runs at Theatre Royal Bath until September 9, and then tours the UK until summer 2024.
What did our critic think of JEEVES & WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE at Theatre Royal Bath?
The English language premiere of Farewell Mister Haffman at Theatre Royal Bath’s intimate Ustinov studio is the most gripping, funny and startling play you’re likely to see this year.
Are you a budding writer not sure where to begin? Perhaps you’ve managed to get something onto the page, but don’t have any theatre contacts to proceed further.
Olivier-award winning director Jeremy Sams lights up the stage with a fast-paced show.
Must-have, dip-in, flick-through book to help make Shakespeare's plays fun for actors, students, directors and teachers
As a first taster to opera, Opera Holland Park's Hansel and Gretel isn't a bad place to start.
Bullying, sexism, corruption, initiation ordeals and debauched behaviour.
In a new revival of I Found My Horn at west London’s Riverside Studios – co-written by Jonathan Guy Lewis and Jasper Rees, both lapsed horn players – the audience is provided with ample reasons to think about taking up that violin, double bass or even fiendishly tricky French horn again.
One of my favourite theatrical moments of the year at Theatre Royal Bath was Into the Woods: a trippy version of Stephen Sondheim's musical, thanks to Terry Gilliam's surreal Monty Python-esque imagination.
Actions can speak louder than words - a proverb that's especially relevant with the new release of Deafinitely Theatre's final two films of its Talking Hands series.
During lockdown, Hear Myself Think's mini audio-theatre podcasts exploring mental health offered solace to listeners in more than 25 countries.
It's a double first at Theatre Royal Bath with Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
Mischief's new catastrophe comedy, Good Luck, Studio, goes very wrong - but perhaps not in the way the Mischief team intended.
The Wellspring is a new father and son two-hander by award-winning playwright Barney Norris (Visitors, Eventide, Nightfall) and novelist (Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, Undercurrent); and his father - pianist, composer and broadcaster David Owen Norris.
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