The grand old London Coliseum on St Martin's Lane -- usually the home of London's second opera company, the English National Opera -- is undergoing a management crisis and severe cuts in funding. It... Read more
London Theatre Reviews
Planning a theatre trip and not sure whether to splurge on the star power and spectacle of a West End musical, experience an intimate drama in a Fringe venue, or check out the latest in new writing at the Royal Court?
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Once again, Hamlet is going to be the talk of the theatrical summer. Two years ago, Benedict Cumberbatch galvanised the town with a brooding, thoughtful prince at the Barbican in a slightly over-... Read more -
Working is an impressionistic hybrid of a musical: a bit like a verbatim documentary crossed with a musical revue, in which monologues and scenes are patched together to tell multiple stories about... Read more -
"The sun will come out tomorrow Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow There'll be sun" That hymn to sunny optimism in the face of depression-era New York, where homeless people huddle in self-made... Read more -
Since being re-branded The Other Palace Theatre in February and re-opening with a blazingly original new production of Michael John LaChiusa's short-lived Broadway musical The Wild Party, the former... Read more -
Regent's Park is already full of birdsong, but each summer the birds are given human competition when the Open Air Theatre stages its annual musical. Usually that comes in late July or August, but... Read more -
Shakespeare plays have a habit of coming in multiples in London: for instance, I've already seen four versions of Julius Caesar in the last six months alone, and there are two more on the immediate... Read more -
Peter Shaffer, who died last year, was best known the author of weighty, philosophical plays like Equus and Amadeus, both of which were first premiered at the National and where the latter was... Read more -
Jukebox musicals in the West End have come in all shapes, sizes and colours -- whether presented as biographical accounts of the lives of songwriters from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (Jersey... Read more -
The story of Salome is one that has been told through dance, opera, drama, film, poetry and sculpture. As a biblical figure she has assumed legendary status most obviously associated with demanding... Read more
