London Theatre - Musicals, Plays, Drama, and Fringe

'The Garden of Words' review – this wistful, rain-soaked Japanese tale draws you in

Japanese anime is having its day on the London stage. My Neighbour Totoro is en route back to the Barbican, whilst John Caird’s production of Spirited Away (an established hit in Japan) opens in April at the Coliseum. So it’s something of a surprise to see north London’s comparatively modest Park Theatre entering the fray with their ambitious stage version of yet

'La Cage aux Folles' review — a heartfelt celebration of love, identity, and resilience

Musicals tend to be about young heterosexual couples falling in love. Young lovers, however, were never Jerry Herman’s thing and his 1983 musical La Cage aux Folles is about the happy, loving, and mature partnership of Albin and Georges, a ‘drag queen and a regular homosexual’ who run a drag club and have raised a child together. First performed in the early years of the AIDS epidemic, it makes for a deeply tender and surprisingly matter-of-fact political statement amidst all the glitz, chiffo

'The Effect' review — you can't help falling in love with this knockout drama

“Are you happy?” Those words echo around The Effect, Lucy Prebble’s head-scratching, heart-wrenching play. In Jamie Lloyd’s meticulous revival, this 2012 piece – Prebble’s impressive follow-up to Enron, and which premiered here at the National starring Billie Piper – proves startlingly prescient about some of the biggest debates of the age. It’s also just a knockout human dra