What is it about Nazis and musicals? With ‘Cabaret’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ playing elsewhere, Jonathan Kent’s season at the Haymarket concludes with...
‘This is America,’ one closeted gay man tells another, ‘you’re still defined by what you do with your dick.’ If you hadn’t guessed it already, all ten gay...
Could this be magic? The ‘Take That musical’ – based on the songs of Gary Barlow and featuring the trials and torments of a Take That tribute band – finally reaches London,...
A melodramatic love triangle between aristocrat Rosmer, his dead wife Beata, and his dead wife’s companion, Rebecca? Or flawed idealists, fighting rearguard actions against their tragic...
Frantic Assembly’s ‘Stockholm’ is about personal matters, and one’s reactions to it will be personal too. I, for example, found its characters unlikeable from the outset....
The death-toll of the Szechuan earthquake is currently estimated at 33,000. So this revival of Brecht’s parable, in which three indifferent Gods try to wash their hands of the suffering...
Ah, the terrible paradox of the fairy tale – they make fantastic source material, but they are also, almost by definition, unimprovable. Joe Evans’s play with music takes the Grimm tale...
Peter Hall is a prolific director who once in a while strikes gold. And, by George, he hits the jackpot here. Admittedly, he does nothing to help the dodgy first act in which playwright Bernard...