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Most of us will have big dreams for our future during childhood, and whilst only a small handful of us will fully realise these, they are...

Tim Burton is a figure one would fairly comfortably associate with all things camp and kooky, especially in terms of his style and the...

After a couple of, to put it politely, lacklustre Shakespearean productions, director Jamie Lloyd with his staging of " Much Ado About...

There are only a handful of theatre shows whose message and overall narrative trajectory so profoundly affect you whilst present, and...

A major production of Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit 's biggest success " Nine ", based on the 1963 Federico Fellini film " 8½ ", hasn't...

Almost 80 years after it first premiered in Russia, arguably J. B. Priestly ’s best known work has stood the test of time, having been...

You have to wonder if Jamie Lloyd is trying to strip everything as far back as he can, and whether this is an artistic choice or an...

There aren’t nearly enough superlatives available to describe how much of a distinct privilege it was to behold Dave Malloy ’s...

Mary Norton may not have been a prolific writer, but arguably her best known series The Borrowers has truly stood the test of time,...

Wealth can be a blessing or a burden, and it’s the latter that tends to make for better storytelling, as is evidenced by this Steve Brown...

It really is the best positive stereotype that Canadians are the nicest people in the world, and in the face of perhaps the worst act of...

Have you ever been present in the courtroom during a major criminal trial? This production of Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the...

It’s a testament to the ability of any writer to effectively tell a story, that decades after their work’s initial publication, it’s...

There have probably been about as many different interpretations of Shakespeare’s greatest love story as there are weekly audience...

In such a politically contentious period as this one, it seems pertinent that we look to history in order to find a degree of solace, to...

[TW - Sensitive content] There are unhinged musicals, and then there’s this new adaptation of the 2007 horror film “Teeth”, which brings...

Whilst it’s true the majority of musicals tend to be based on prior existing source material, once in a while an original musical,...

With the popularity of arguably F Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, and the unequivocally extravagant, lavish quality with which it is...

It is often said that humour is highly subjective, and it’s what tends to make comedy such a tough genre to sell, as not everyone laughs...

If we never knew we needed a play about sex, drugs and rock & roll, this exponent of David Adjmi and Will Butler , the latter a former...