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It is press night for I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical at Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, where one of music’s most influential voices is celebrated in a vibrant biographical production exploring 'the fame, the fire and the fight' behind an extraordinary career.
There are few children’s books which have captured young imaginations quite like Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man series.
It's fiendishly difficult to pull off a one-person show, guiding the narrative arc of a story and playing a multitude of roles.
Fluxorama, one of 21 short plays in Riverside Studio's Bitesize Festival, is a series of three monologues written by award-winning Brazilian playwright Jô Bilac.
Packed to the brim with illusions and disillusionment, it quickly becomes clear that Now You See Me Live is only a magic show in one sense of the word.
Luca swaggers into Harmony (population 375, and dropping) looking less like a drifter than an escapee from a protein powder advert, and Matthew Bourne's dance-noir wastes no time weaponising that effect.
Shakespeare has a distinctly Aussie twang in Kew Gardens this summer.
One of the assured highlights of the Proms in recent years has been the appearance of the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Collon, which explores a seminal piece of music through spoken word, dramatic realisation and musical illustration, then going on to perform the piece.
Directed by Spike Lee, David Byrne’s American Utopia is a filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway stage show, which itself is inspired by the record of the same name.
What did our critic think of BBC PROMS BRUCH'S VIOLIN CONCERTO, ROYAL ALBERT HALL at Royal Albert Hall?
Emma Rice’s glorious adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers returns to Alexandra Palace Theatre with all of the warmth, wit and wonder which made it such a beloved success.
Six years after its debut in Manchester, My Neighbour Totoro director Phelim McDermott takes centre stage in this emotionally piercing collaboration with iconic composer Philip Glass to London.
At first glance, Dinosaur World Live appears to promise a traditional theatrical adventure, but audiences should adjust their expectations before entering this prehistoric expedition.
It's over a decade since David McVicar’s glorious version of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) debuted at Glyndebourne.
Broadway veterans Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes begin their show tossing canine plushies into the audience, Oprah-style.
There was a distinctly cinematic feel to last night's Prom, Korngold's Violin Concerto, which also featured Prokofiev’s 'Symphony No.
Few plays unite cast and audience in mutual struggle like Sarah Kane's Cleansed.
Grease is the word yet again as immersive theatre giant Secret Cinema rolls back into London with a repeat of last year's summer spectacular.
When you look at the casting of Marianela - Timeless, it seems there's been a mistake.
The flimsy theme holding together this year’s summer season at Shakespeare’s Globe is ‘1599 or 1939’, which has allowed them to stage a work by Brecht as well as several Shakespeare plays which are frequent flyers at this theatre complex.
Following the Olivier Award nominated success of Rough Magic, Shakespeare’s Globe and Splendid Productions once again demonstrate an extraordinary understanding of family theatre with A World Elsewhere.
Following its Olivier Award win for Best Family Show, Brainiac Live returns to the West End with an hour of exhilarating scientific mayhem which proves that education can be every bit as entertaining as it is informative.
DEM Museum’s attempt to traverse a dozen millennia in an hour is lacking in neither chutzpah nor dazzling technology.
The thene of the evening is the great outdoors, with the LEO'S blending of the old and new making the audience stamp their feet for more.
What better way to spend a warm summer evening than sitting in a park listening to Broadway tunes.
