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‘A theatrical experience like little else’: TRAINSPOTTING LIVE – Touring ★★★★
20th March 2019
Trainspotting Live is a theatrical experience like little else. It may not hit the heart like it does the gut but most will be far too caught up in the ride to care.Read more...
‘I hope Hamilton will influence Opera around the world’: Alison Buchanan on Pegasus Opera and their new production Shaw Goes Wilde
20th March 2019
As Pegasus Opera prepares to stage it's latest production, Shaw Goes Wilde, at the Royal Academy of Music, Artistic Director Alison Buchanan tells us about playing a character with dominatrix tendencies and how the opera world can learn from the success of Hamilton. Read.Read more...
‘A night to remember’: DIRTY DANCING – Touring ★★★★★
20th March 2019
Dirty Dancing is not just a show about a love affair against the odds, or an early 60s period piece. Its continued popularity over the past 31 years is just as much due to tackling issues of class, family, loyalty, and right and wrong.Read more...
‘The play’s eye is pitilessly sharp’: ALYS, ALWAYS – Bridge Theatre ★★★★
20th March 2019
Couldn’t miss Nicholas Hytner’s bit of mischief: after his years of being being alternately feted and rubbished in print, he displays directorial glee in sending up the noisome denizens of a broadsheet arts desk thanks to Lucinda Coxon’s black-hearted comedy of modern media manners,.Read more...
NEWS: Jac Yarrow makes his stage debut as Joseph in the new West End production
20th March 2019
Jac Yarrow will take the lead role in the new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium. The show plays a strictly limited 11-week season from 27 June to 8 September 2019 (press night is 11 July).Read more...
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Betrayal at Harold Pinter Theatre
20th March 2019
Tom Hiddleston stars in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Harold Pinter’s play Betrayal. Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews…Read more...
‘Sure to delight fans of both dance & circus’: SIGMA – Touring in Canada
19th March 2019
Sigma is a cross-cultural integration of dance and circus that pushes the classical and the contemporary together into a wonderful production that is sure to delight fans of both artforms.Read more...
Open air theatre: mad but delightful
19th March 2019
The open air season will soon be upon us. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind? as Shelley puts it. And no one does open air theatre with more hopeful enthusiasm than the lovably daft British. Read more...
Madrid is a Female Name: Cervantes Theatre’s monologue cycle concludes with Virginia Woolf
19th March 2019
Throughout March, the Cervantes Theatre, London's home of Spanish drama, is celebrating Madrid with Madrid is a Female Name, its mini-season of monologues imported from the Spanish capital. The programme continues this Saturday 9 March 2019 with Descarriadas. Read more...
NEWS: Curve’s production of White Christmas transfers to the West End for short festive season
19th March 2019
Made at Curve production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will transfer to London’s Dominion Theatre from 15 November 2019 to 4 January 2020, with a press night on 25 November. Read more...
‘Still wonderfully magical’: BEAUTY & THE BEAST – Touring ★★★★
19th March 2019
Birmingham Royal Ballet puts on a truly magical and haunting performance of David Bintley’s Beauty & the Beast.Read more...
‘There’ll be tears, laughter, rowing & lots of sex talk’: Emily Curtis & Lauren-Nicole Mayes perform Eggs at Tristan Bates Theatre
19th March 2019
LLLC’s Emma Clarendon chatted to Emily Curtis & Lauren-Nicole Mayes about starring in Eggs at the Tristan Bates Theatre.Read more...
‘Practically bursts with creative talent’: 100% CHANCE OF RAIN – Chickenshed Theatre
19th March 2019
This time around Chickenshed’s inclusive theatre company is exploring mental health in new show, 100% Chance of Rain.Read more...
‘A beautiful & ornate chocolate box of a production’: ROMANCE ROMANCE – Above the Stag Theatre
19th March 2019
Romance Romance, the all-male gay musical which opened at the Above the Stag Theatre in Vauxhall, is a beautiful and ornate chocolate box of a production.Read more...
‘I know what it takes to dig down inside yourself’: Christopher Tajah on creating Dream of a King
19th March 2019
From his first experience of Martin Luther King to why a telephone plays such an important role in his play, writer and performer Christopher Tajah tells us about his hit one-man Martin Luther King drama, Dream of A King. Read his fascinating interview, then.Read more...
‘The joy is in meeting the characters’: JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN – Young Vic Theatre
19th March 2019
The joy of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train is in meeting his characters: watching them perform to each other; hearing their patois and verbal brio; exude a charisma which they know gives them power.Read more...
“It’s impossible to hear the tale and not begin speculating”: Lexie Ward on the creation of thriller We Know Now Snowmen Exist
19th March 2019
Infrasound frequency, unsolved mysteries, paranoia and raising the profile of Cumbrian theatre - director Lexie Ward tells us why she's so excited about bringing acclaimed all-female thriller We Know Now Snowmen Exist to The Space this week. Read her interview, then book your tickets!Read more...
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Admissions at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios
19th March 2019
Find out what the critics made of Daniel Aukin’s production of Admissions at the Trafalgar Studios.Read more...
PHOTOS: Discover the wonderful world of Wise Children with these production images
19th March 2019
Productions created by Emma Rice have a reputation for glorious theatricality. It's a reputation that, judging from these production images, Wise Children more than lives up to. Take a look, then book your tickets!Read more...
‘Staged with enormous intelligence & emotional energy’: BETRAYAL – West End
19th March 2019
Tom Hiddleston is back! And in excellent form in Jamie Lloyd’s revelatory revival of the 1978 Pinter classic Betrayal.Read more...