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Review: THE LION KING, Birmingham Hippodrome
The Lion King isn't an easy show to take on tour, but you needn't worry that this is a pared down version. The touring production brings with it more than 230 different puppets, around 50 cast members and 100 crew, and the same impressive sets that you'll see in London and on Broadway....
Review: FLYING DUTCHMAN, Grand Junction
A mixed beast that roars when it comes to the music but is ultimately let down by issues surrounding the conception and dramaturgical realisation....
Review: CHESTER MYSTERY PLAYS, Chester Cathedral
Originally performed in Chester as early as 1375, The Mystery Plays have been performed every five years in the city since 1951, with a cast of 150 actors, singers and musicians of all ages staging the 2023 production in the historic setting of the city’s beautiful cathedral....
Review: ROMAN HOLIDAY, Theatre Royal Bath
Olivier-award winning director Jeremy Sams lights up the stage with a fast-paced show. For anyone not convinced by turning a Fifties film into a musical today, Roman Holiday is more relevant than you’d think....
Review: FRANK AND PERCY, Theatre Royal Windsor
Two men bond over a shared love of dogs and discover they have rather more in common than first appears....
Book Review: DRAMA GAMES FOR EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE, by Alanna Beeken
Must-have, dip-in, flick-through book to help make Shakespeare's plays fun for actors, students, directors and teachers...
Review: ASSASSINS, Chichester Festival Theatre
Blazing new production of strange and unsettling musical that leaves you with much to consider...
Review: GYPSY, The Mill At Sonning
One thing is certain in the world of theatre: there will always be revivals of Gypsy. The combination of Arthur Laurents' layered book, Jule Styne's razzmatazz-filled score and the incisive, character-driven lyrics by Stephen Sondheim has made the show an enduring hit....
Review: NOTFLIX THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL, Luna Park, Caravanserai, Brighton Fringe
Touting themselves as 'The Spice Girls of improv', the team behind Notflix the Improvised Musical certainly knew how to inject some zig-a-zig-ah into the Brighton Fringe as they took the stage in Luna Park at the Caravanserai site this week....
Review: MISCHIEF MAKERS: PETER PAN GOES WRONG - BROADWAY PART 1, Podcast
Who broke their foot the last time they were in Peter Pan Goes Wrong? What was it like to work with Neil Patrick Harris? What are American audiences like versus those in the UK? Mischief Makers: Peter Pan Goes Wrong - Broadway Part 1 answers all of these questions and more!...
Review: HEAD FIRST ACROBATS: GODZ AND ARRR WE THERE YET?!, Brighton Fringe Spiegeltent
Nudity, profanity and hilarity: Head First Acrobats present a new holy trinity in Godz as well as an exciting children's show in Arrr We There Yet?!...
Review: GLAD TO BE DEAD at R-Bar, Brighton Fringe
Each year Brighton Fringe is home to some of the UK theatre scenes wildest and most unique performances. Make It Mine’s offering is Glad To Be Dead, a cycle of monologues from gothic horrors most notorious characters, waxing philosophical and lamenting their own misfortune, all wrapped up in one h...
Review: GODOT IS A WOMAN, Old Fire Station, Oxford
In their Fringe hit Godot is a Woman, Silent Faces theatre company explore Beckett and his estate’s refusal to allow women or non-binary people to perform his most famous play through a series of skits and spoofs on the play itself. The show is initially framed through a phone call to the estate w...
Review: CYMBELINE, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Entertaining from first to last, this less well-known play sparkles for three hours and finishes with a heartfelt plea for harmony...
Review: THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER, The Watermill Theatre
The ever enchanting Watermill Theatre in Newbury could hardly have hoped for more atmospheric weather to mark the opening night of their latest show, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The distant thunderclaps and bucketing rain seemed perfectly placed to instill a disquieting mood as the audience arrive...
Review: THE BOOK OF WILL, Queen's Theatre Hornchurch
Crowdpleasing production based on the printing of Shakespeare's plays (harder than you think!) makes for a diverting and pleasant couple of hours in the theatre...
Review: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Royal & Derngate
For what it's worth, I think Emily Brontë would probably love this new production of her then controversial 19th century novel, Wuthering Heights. ...
Review: THE SILENCE AND THE NOISE, Streaming
Raw, brutal, twisted, and full of rich wordplay, this play makes its political points and highlights a relationship which uses regret, mistakes, and teasing to hide what is really happening at its core. It is less the star-crossed young lovers of Shakespeare than the smack-stained children of a mode...
Review: HAMNET, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
What’s in a name? That which we call William, Hamlet or Anne still smells as sweet when we see their historical origins in this adaptation by Lolita Chakrabarti of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel....
Review: THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, Birmingham Hippodrome
The theme song to Nickelodeon's super-popular animated series SpongeBob SquarePants encourages you to tune in 'if nautical nonsense be something you wish', and nautical nonsense is definitely what's on offer in this madcap but good-natured musical....
Review: PETER PAN, Reading Rep Theatre
This new adaptation is a playful and charming take on a classic story, but its complexity may not be suitable for very young children...
Review: JULIUS CAESAR, Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Touring production of play that explicitly warns of the dangers of politics as practised today loses focus by adopting a curious set of priorities...
Review: VISITORS, Watermill Theatre
Barney Norris wrote his debut play Visitors when he was only twenty years-old. Following its 2014 premiere at the Arcola, it garnered critical acclaim and earned Norris a Critic’s Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. Following a national tour and Off-West End run at the Bush, Norris returns...
Book Review: MY SHAKESPEARE - A DIRECTOR'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE FIRST FOLIO by Greg Doran
Doran’s latest book gives a revelatory and revolutionary breakdown of the canon in a way that works for both the professional and uninitiated....
Review: HAY FEVER, The Mill at Sonning
A staple of the British stage, Noël Coward’s Hay Fever was inspired by the playwright’s travels in New York meeting an eccentric family. Supposedly, the matriarch wasn’t kind to Coward’s perceptions of their lifestyle, but this comedy of manners still paid off and has become one of his best...
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