Blogs about Theatre

Four years ago this production was supposed to happen – the pandemic happened instead. On the occasion of Alan Ayckbourn’s 85th birthday, however, I thought it was high time that I reshared my thoughts about …

Text of the day: “The dawn comes on,/ and the blood-red sun on the eastern marshes/ burns like a distant forest fire./ I don’t look back. I run into the morning.” (Charley in Ben Power’s …

“He do the police in different voices.” If ever one phrase summed up a work of fiction, and the art of its writer, then surely it is this description, by Charles Dickens in his 1865 …

★★★☆☆ Challenging Church Hill Theatre: Wed 15 – Sat 18 May 2024 Review by Hugh Simpson Leitheatre’s Blue Remembered Hills at the Church Hill is nasty and short. Which is exactly what is intended. Originally …

Here’s my audiobook for you. Click to buy My Tutu Went AWOL! It’s self-narrated: with songs, adlibs and bloopers as standard.‘Achingly funny!’ Daily Mail‘A book unlike any other, of a story unlike any other. Totally …

In Scandinavian and Russian folklore, the ‘hour of the wolf’ occurs between 3 and 4am – the time when people are most prone to being kept awake at night by crippling worries, as well as …

Review from: The Peacock Theatre (Sadlers Wells), London; 3rd February 2024 I approach circus-theatre with an element of dread, fearful[…] The post ‘Tess’, by Ockham’s Razor appeared first on The Circus Diaries.

Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places and Things returns to a slightly different West End to the one that it first entered in 2016 when it transferred a year after its National Theatre debut. A considerable shift …

With the munchkins getting older, it’s getting harder to find shows aimed at their age group. As we said in last week’s review of Romeo and Juliet at Polka Theatre, it’s rare that you come …

I’m not sure that those involved in the 2011 BBC Three documentary Jamie: Drag Queen at 16 and indeed its subject Jamie Campbell, thought that this story of a British school boy from Bishop Auckland …

Tennessee William’s trilogy of plays Cat, Streetcar, and Glass Menagerie stand alongside Arthur Miller’s more realist work as the voice of mid-20th century American theatre. A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on A Hot Tin …

This week, I was delighted to run a phone interview with the playwright, actor, artist, and thinker, Jack Klaff. Klaff is returning to the London stage next month in Kafka, devised as a 75-minute show. …

Saving the last night of her current Australian tour for musical-loving Melbourne, Audra McDonald thrilled, charmed, and moved the adoring crowd with a glorious evening of song and story. Making a welcome return to Melbourne …

“You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.” Anthony Shaffer’s acclaimed & award-winning play Sleuth has been revived for a nationwide tour starring Todd Boyce and Neil …

Picture: Paul Coltas Jesus Christ Superstar was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London where it runs until 18 May 2024, and then tours until 17 August 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ …

There’s a trailer for an American version of Re-Animator The Musical that features a large cast, impressive songs and a heavy dose of blood and gore that makes it look like it’s a delight, at …

Most actors take a bit of a break after playing King Lear; Danny Sapani barely seems to have taken a breath between his run at the Almeida and another intense, deeply damaged leading man at …

by Archie Whyld What do German theatre directors eat in the morning? Why, Brechtfast, of course. Early on in Polly (The Heartbreak Opera), a similar, and admittedly better, Brechtfast joke was subtly slipped in, in …

Love's Labour's Lost, starring Luke Thomson, is the play that got me back to Stratford. It's been years since I jumped on a train to the West Midlands as it's become more of a faff …

Bonnie and Clyde (Tour)New Victoria TheatreOriginally blazing onto the Broadway scene in 2011, Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical quickly gained a cult following for its bold storytelling and infectious tunes. Since finally debuting in London …