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Review: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the R…
Review Roundup: Jesse Tyler Ferguson in TRU
Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year. It's December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him friendship of the elite social circle …
Review: DIANA: THE UNTOLD AND UNTRUE STORY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, performed and directed by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, takes the familiar royal narrative and gleefully sets fire to the history books.…
Review: TRU, Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Menier Chocolate Factory
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”. Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 dramatisation of the incident, locks us in the New Journalism pioneer’s living room in th…
Review: RHYTHM RIOT, Sadler's Wells
There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells. What creative offerings do they have for us this time?…
Review: THE URMETAZOAN, Hampstead Theatre
In a rental in Florida, Abigail is helping Alice to pack: the Nobel Prize winner and decorated scientist is leaving Earth to further space research. The two sisters haven’t spoken in seven years. Alex Rugman delivers a tender representation of sisterhood. Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Meghan Treadway …
Review: TABLE 17, Starring Marisha Wallace, Kiln Theatre
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”. It’s a good thing they warned us, because Douglas Lyons’s play is trying so hard to be a participatory experience that its core emotional truths are being lost along the way.…
Review Roundup: Sting Stars In THE LAST SHIP
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community of shipbuilders in the North East of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard – the heart of their existence. Sting takes on the role of Jackie White, the shipyard…
Review: THE LAST SHIP, Starring Sting, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Plenty of heart in this full-throated condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's industrial policies, but great songs and a great set do not a musical make…
Review: CATARINA AND THE BEAUTY OF KILLING FASCISTS, National Theatre
Disturbing and distressing, but a production for our times…
Past Shows
The Shoop Shoop Show
Rachael Hawnt, the winner of ITV’s Starstruck, is leading a brand-new theatre show celebrating the incredible music of Cher. The international extravaganza is coming to Darlington Hippodrome on 9th April 2026. Showcasing every decade of Cher’s remarkable career, fans will...
Mythos: Ragnarök
Famously dubbed as the “maddest, baddest show” of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by the Daily Mail, this groundbreaking and cult-classic adaptation of ancient Norse mythology is finally giving its long-awaited tour of the UK. Mythos: Ragnarök blends historical storytelling with...
Aladdin
The magic of pantomime returns to Darlington Hippodrome with a spectacular and thrilling production of Aladdin. Starring Louie Spence, Zoe Birkett, Robin Askwith, Eric Potts and Liam Mellor.
Cilla The Musical
A spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically acclaimed ITV mini-series.
The Full Monty
Based on his smash-hit film and adapted for the stage by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy, this hilarious and heartfelt production receives standing ovations every night.
Dracula
Completely re-imagined by an exciting creative team, discover Dracula, the iconic vampire thriller, in this branbd new multi-sensory stage adaptation.
Rock of Ages
In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA's most famous rock club, they fell in love to the greatest songs of the 80s. It's five time 2009 Tony Award® nominee ROCK OF AGES, an arena-rock love story told through the mind-blowing, face-melting...
Summer Holiday
Starring Ray Quinn, Summer Holiday is a brand new stage musical based on the iconic 1960s film starring Cliff Richard.
