This play is a mesmerising dissection of the creative process
By John Nathan
Lara Pulver and Adam Dannheisser reveal what it’s like to play husband and wife in the latest garlanded production of the world’s most loved musical
This Fiddler is both lyrical gold and the best antidote to the myths driving today’s tsunami of Jew-hate
Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden perfectly pit two versions of masculinity in this darkly funny two-hander
This is an entertaining musical comedy, and its corny gags are fun, but only fleetingly does it soar
Actor-writer Lisa Rose’s play revisits the disgraced mogul’s crimes with revenge cloaked in dark humour, including an impression of his gangrenous male member
By Ben Marshall
The composer’s swansong is best described as a play with some music
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The children’s author’s deep-seated loathing of Jews is slowly and shockingly revealed in this West End transfer of Mark Rosenblatt’s award-winning play
Actor Emma Kingston on why she is relishing playing Elphaba in West End smash Wicked
By Nicole Lampert
A formerly frum writer on how he hopes his ex-community will watch his new work
Set around a poker table, this play anchors on a painful father-son relationship and shows that the stake are always higher than the amount of cash on the table
The action is updated to 21st century Britain
New works from the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet
By Joy Sable
Why turn John Schlesinger’s famous 1968 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight into a musical? Does the story really need more music?
The message of this 1959 absurdist play survives. But instead of looking back at the horrors of conformism in 20th-century Europe, it now warns of the stampede ahead
John Donnelly’s hybrid play combines the occult with urban social realism
A chance to get a bit of American pizzazz
How good to able to sit in a theatre and with some justification, rather than deluded hope, feel the unashamed urge to cry ‘Come on England’
This athletic Dracula send-up certainly puts the vamp into vampire
The star is ceaselessly flamboyant in Thomas Ostermeier’s staging of the Chekhov comedy
There is much to enjoy in the London premiere of this darkly comic play set in Nazi-occupied Paris, but its premise means it is ultimately unconvincing
By Imogen Garfinkel
The Royal Ballet shines in a classic production
This is a wonderful resurrection of gilded comedians Tommy Copper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse
