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Cruel Intentions is based on the 1999 movie starring Sarah-Michelle Gellar.  The musical adaptation premiered in Los Angeles in 2015, heading off-Broadway in 2017 and making its UK debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019.  It has now arrived in London at The Other Palace Theatre. This theatre seems like a perfect venue for […]

Based on the 1980 Clint Eastwood movie, the musical adaptation of Bronco Billy premiered in Los Angeles in 2019 and now crosses the pond for its London and UK debut at the Charring Cross Theatre. Amy Jane Cook’s scenic design is a thing of beauty with some big and bold set pieces and no shortage of […]

JIM Barne and Kit Buchan’s cracking, warm-hearted musical was a festive hit at the Kiln Theatre.   It’s a leanly constructed piece economically directed by Tim Jackson.  On a set by Soutra Gilmour where the revolving stage is the perfect vehicle for the towers of multifunctional suitcases that form the skyscrapers. 

The Score, which is written by Oliver Cotton and directed by Trevor Nunn, is set in Potsdam, Prussia in 1747.  Johann Sebastian Bach reluctantly visits the court of Frederick II, Europe’s most ambitious and dangerous leader, and the explosive events of the following days could not have been predicted by either man.

Director Wayne Jordan’s bright, buoyant production of a baggily structured, overlong script has the large cast swirling through dreamy tableaux of Dublin and Paris, on a stage fringed by tinsel curtains. An elaborate plot twist with observations about the parallels between role-play and artifice in theatre and in love losing some of their sharpness along […]

Yasmina Reza’s Olivier and Tony Award-winning comedy-drama God of Carnage is revived at Lyric Hammersmith. Translated into English by Christopher Hampton, God of Carnage is a ruthlessly comic study of middle-class parenting. Lyric’s Associate Director Nicholai La Barrie directs. The 2008 production won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and the Tony Award for Best New Play.

Kiln Theatre’s UK premiere of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s Mlima’s Tale is a tale of a magnificent elephant named Mlima who is killed for his tusks.  His spirit journeys through the ivory trade market, marking all those complicit in his barbaric death.  It previously premiered off Broadway at the Public Theatre in 2018.

Critically acclaimed Broadway musical Next to Normal is an intimate exploration of family and loss.  At its heart is a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past.  Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs the long-awaited UK première of this powerful musical about a far from average family. Next to Normal is the winner of the […]

As director Paul Hart’s revival of a musical version of The Lord of the Rings has an alfresco prologue and epilogue in the gardens of Berkshire’s delightful riverside Watermill Theatre. The Theatre promises that audiences will be immersed in the magical landscape of Tolkien, joining an ensemble cast and large-scale puppets on an epic journey […]

After two crowd-pleasing West End runs, this vibrant, gritty HIV-based drama journeys outside London for its first time. Cruise is a highly charged vicarious deep dive into the rampant hedonism of gay Soho in the 1980s. And how. It’s told by Jack (Jack Holden) with music composed and performed by John Patrick Elliot.

Written by Emmy and Golden Globe-winning and Tony and Olivier Award-nominated David West Read and directed by multi-award winning Luke Sheppard, In Dreams is a feel-good musical filled with love, laughter and the joy of living life to the full. Set to the soaring songs of Roy Orbison, this inspiring story tugs at the heart strings of the audience as they […]

Regents Park is the perfect venue for this show, as you are nestled among the trees and the sun sets it makes for a very atmospheric spot to spend an evening.  Robin Hood: The Legend. Re-Written is a new production which aims to bring a new twist to this classic and well-known tale. It is written […]

Based on real events on the island of Tristan de Cunha, Jennifer Tang’s visionary interpretation of Zinnie Harris’s award winning modern classic of a story of a community haunted by its past and under threat from a modern world crisis.

Debbie Tucker Green’s 2015 play called simply hang.  It’s a sharply written and in this production a sharply played piece about a whole range of subjects but which principally examines the outsourcing of a key part of the criminal justice system to corporately trained almost robotised tick list employees who lack true empathy or a genuine […]

Directed by Jez Bond, Winner’s Curse sees two countries locked in battle over a strip of land, when a fragile ceasefire provides a chance for peace. Over the negotiating table, cynical diplomats, idealistic peacemakers and meddling mediators try to navigate a perilous path to agreement as the threat of continued conflict looms ever larger. Billed as a […]

Hurtwood Theatre presents Twelfth Night: The Musical, a contemporary jazz-funk adaptation by Shaina Taub that won accolades when first staged in New York in 2018. Tickertape heaven, fizzing firework fountains, revolving hearts and spinning stages. On with the dancing shoes, out with the blues. Amor Omnia Vincit. This is Shakespeare, this is Christmas at Hurtwood.

In December 2022, Big School was transformed into a theatre-in-the-round for Whitgift’s enthralling Senior Drama production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The play follows the character, Grusha, a peasant girl who rescues a baby during a time of conflict and becomes a better mother than the child’s wealthy biological parents. A double revolving stage was […]

Directed by Des Kennedy, PIAF is a captivating and uncompromising look at Édith Piaf in all her grit and glory, tracing her life from her days singing for change on the streets of Belleville to the high-end nightclubs of New York.  “The staging is relatively simple with curtains and quick set changes used to create the […]

Written by Olivier award-winning and Tony award-nominated playwright Conor McPherson, who is currently Senior Associate Artist at the Abbey Theatre, The Weir won the Olivier award for Best New Play on its premiere and has since been staged the world over. Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin, this major new staging of The Weir promises a spellbinding winter production for the […]