Richard Bean, writer of One Man Two Guv’nors, has turned his attention to the challenges of old age in his new comedy To Have And To Hold at Hampstead Theatre. Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey are an outstanding comedy double act ...

Alexander Zeldin has written a series of successful theatre plays about ordinary people based on interviews. In The Confessions, he has decided to find out about his mother’s life, on the surface another ordinary person. A life, she told him and tells us, that is not interesting. Not an encouraging ...

I’ve probably been to and enjoyed more plays at Chichester Festival Theatres than anywhere else except the National Theatre. Unfortunately, The Inquiry, a new political drama at The Minerva, wasn’t one of them ...

Even if you don't normally like fantasy, I urge you to see this 5-star stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman's book about the power of storytelling ...

It’s the accomplished well-directed cast that makes Headlong's A View From The Bridge worth seeing. As a production, it tries too hard ...

Smack the pony star Doon Mackichan's description of her fight against a toxic male industry and her personal triumphs over adversity make My Lady Parts an inspiring read ...

Jonny Lee Miller commands the stage at the Almeida Theatre London in A Mirror, a new work by Sam Holcroft that explores state censorship and the state of theatrical writing ...

Paapa Essiedu stands out in Lucy (Succession) Prebble's intimate play about love, depression and the brain that is somewhat lost in the National Theatre's vast Lyttelton auditorium ...

It is extraordinary that the small Watermill Theatre in Newbury has been able to achieve what major producers with millions at their disposal were not- a successful Lord of the Rings musical ...

It’s hard to imagine now but in the 1970s, women were rare in the British pop charts and female groups were non-existent. The pop industry was dominated by men both on and off stage. Based on the seventies TV series, Rock Follies at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester imagines the ...

Operation Mincemeat has gone from being a fringe hit to a polished fast-moving West End musical comedy that deserves a long run at the Fortune Theatre ...

The sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein conquers all ★★★★ I arrived at Chichester Festival Theatre with a lot of prejudice against The Sound Of Music. I’ve never liked nuns (don’t ask), the use of children is so often manipulative, the story is sweeter than aspartame, and the plot is flimsy ...

Daniel Rigby stars in the funniest play in London (probably) ★★★★ A maniac arrives at a police station in London and pretends to be a judge investigating a death in custody. There follows the maddest, funniest play you’re likely to see in London this summer, and possibly the most political ...

The Best Musical award-winning A Strange Loop has transferred from Braodway to The Barbican in London. A Strange Loop is a fascinating scientific theory about how the creative brain works, and the musical by Michael R Jackson that it has inspired is just as interesting ...

James Graham has built Dear England around the idea that the football team is a microcosm of the country. Joseph Fiennes gives an outstanding performance as Gareth Southgate, a manager who admits he doesn’t know everything, who listens, who isn’t confrontational, but who ultimately has a steel resolve ...

Tim Minchin and Danny Rubin's stage musical version of Groundhog Day starring Andy Karl at the Old Vic in London may be funnier and deeper than the original movie ...

A musical thriller from a stellar team ★★★★ Theatre has become something of a vampire in recent years, roaming the dark auditoria of cinemas searching for films to turn into musicals. Sunset Boulevard is being revived; Groundhog Day is at the Old Vic; a version of Brokeback Mountain with music ...

Brokeback Mountain has been adapted for the stage by Ashley Robinson from a short story by Annie Proulx about a forbidden gay romance. Its stars Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges, and the songs by Dan Gillespie Sells were great, but I was disappointed that the production literally threw in the ...

Stephen Sondheim's Assassins is a musical that takes a superficial meander through various would-be Presidential assassins. It's loosely held together by the concept that they are a corruption of the American Dream. Unfortunately, Chichester Festival Theatre's production makes it too complicated ...

The Kiln production of Retrograde by extraordinary new playwright Ryan Calais Cameron features an outstanding performance by rising star Ivanno Jeremiah as Sidney Poitier ...