Arts Theatre

Beautiful Thing

West End, Drama

• Rating: 4/5
• Critics' choice

Cult classics are tricky beasts. Their many fans tend to be hard to please and the fact Jonathan Harvey’s 20-year-old play has become a cult film too doesn’t help. So it’s a huge tribute to Nikolai Foster’s terrific, gutsy revival that it stands squarely...

Beautiful Thing

West End, Drama

• Rating: 4/5
• Critics' choice

Cult classics are tricky beasts. Their many fans tend to be hard to please and the fact Jonathan Harvey’s 20-year-old play has become a cult film too doesn’t help. So it’s a huge tribute to Nikolai Foster’s terrific, gutsy revival that it stands squarely...

Sean Hughes – Life Becomes Noises

Comedy

After a sell-out run at the Tricycle earlier this year, the razor-sharp Irish rascal and former 'Buzzcocks' team captain brings his more theatrical stand-up piece to the West End for a mini-run. A year after his father's death, Sean looks at the lighter...

The Golden Voice

West End, Musicals

The line between 'parable for our times' and 'predictable' sounds rather thin in this new musical about a fame hungry singer who betrays his best mate and childhood sweetheart to win a popular talent show, only to discover that record companies can be...