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Ewan McGregor-led love letter to Ibsen proves solid but underwhelming Love: it is a drug like none other, in that it often instils and...

1980s Alan Bleasedale TV drama gets a brilliant theatrical facelift Margaret Thatcher was a hugely polarising figure in British politics,...

UK return for Adam Gwon musical finds beauty and humour in normal life There is something strangely captivating about celebrating the...

The part of " Mama Rose " has become one of the most sought after, yet most demanding lead roles for female performers in all of musical...

There is something rather beautiful about the facility to tell the story of somebody real, especially through their own music, we only...

It takes a seriously talented writing team, and similarly gifted group of performers, to be able to successfully create and sell a new...

George Orwell was a trailblazer back in his day, most notably for his outspoken criticism of totalitarianism, and his work in dystopian...

Politics in various guises have featured in live theatre for centuries, even millennia, with the ancient Greeks, such as Sophocles and...

Wild, outrageous, and thoroughly enjoyable, Titanique is the brainchild of Tye Blue , Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli , using...

As a creative, it has to be a monumental challenge not only writing a solo piece of theatre, but being able to execute it, remaining...

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...