★★★★ As a choice of musical, 101 Dalmatians musical feels like something of a hair shirt for producers. One can just imagine the conversations between Artistic Director Timothy Sheader and…
★★★★ As a nineties baby, the Disney adaptation of Beauty and The Beast is a both a familiar and terrifying concept. The live-action remake has now laid claim to most…
★★★★★ For Emma Rice, theatrical adaptation is an extreme sport. Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Brontë’s brooding tragic romance, is hardly beloved for its sexual innuendo nor its overblown rock interludes. Yet…
★★★★ Mischief Theatre has a knack for making million dollar productions look amateur. One would never pick out ‘Magic Goes Wrong’ as a JJ Abrams production, or one developed alongside…
★★★★ Few playwrights have been watched so closely as The West End’s new poster girl Jasmine Lee-Jones since her cacophonous debut, The Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner first turned…
★★★★ Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical charts the last five years of an estranged couple’s relationship, recalling its demise through two lenses. We follow Jamie Wellerstein, a hot-shot young novelist,…
★★★★★ The Woman in Black has returned. Producer Peter Wilson expressed cautious optimism that a personal horror might finally be seen off. Raising a toast to his rattled audience, he…
★★★★★ 2:22. It’s rarely encouraging to find audience members checking the time, but it’s part of the mastery to Danny Robbins’ electric new thriller as eyes dart expectantly to the…
★★★★ Making the leap from Channel 4, The Windsors look to have colonised the West End overnight with the new satire by Bert Tyler-Moore and the late George Jeffrie. “I…
★★★★ At its premier last December, The Comeback, the aptly-named debut play of Ben Ashenden and Alex Owen (a.k.a. “the Pin”), promised farcical charm to audiences that had spent the…