The game is afoot once more, as Blackeyed Theatre hase adapted the Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear into a brand new stage show. This production is currently touring the country, and follows on from the events of The Sign of Four – with Luke Barton and Joseph Derrington reprising the roles of Holmes and Watson for this latest mystery.
FEATURED SHOW: ★★★★ reviews are in for Sherlock Holmes & The Invisible Thing
It opened to the press on the hottest night of the year, but raised temperatures didn’t dampen critics’ enthusiasm for Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing, which brings Holmes home to Marylebone for a limited season. We’ve rounded up selected review highlights below. Time get booking!
FIRST-LOOK PHOTOS: Sherlock Holmes is ready to solve the case of The Invisible Thing in Marylebone
We’re counting down to Sherlock Holmes’ return home to Baker Street. Sneak a peek at our gallery of first-look production shots of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing, officially opening at Rudolf Steiner House in Marylebone. Time get booking!
PHOTOS: Getting into character with Sherlock Holmes & The Invisible Thing
Deerstalker cap? Check. Pipe? Check. The cast of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing have been getting into character as they prepare to bring Holmes home to Baker Street. Check out our character portraits gallery – and then get booking!
‘We’re bringing Holmes home!’: Director David Phipps-Davis on the excitement of staging Sherlock Holmes 200 yards from 221b Baker Street
How significant does it feel to stage a Sherlock Holmes mystery 200 yards from 221b Baker Street? Very! We caught up with director David Phipps-Davis ahead of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing’s opening in Marylebone. Time to get booking!
NEWS: Meet the new Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson, returning to Baker Street for The Invisible Thing
Elementary? The cast who will solve the cast of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing has been revealed! We can’t wait to see this brilliant restaging that will bring London’s most famous detective home to Baker Street next month. Time to get booking, sleuths!
NEWS: Sherlock Holmes comes home to Baker Street to solve the case of The Invisible Thing
Sherlock Holmes is returning home to Baker Street to solve a new theatrical case this summer… in an unconventional Off-West End venue. Time to get booking, sleuths!
‘Mysterious, evocative & stylish’: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SIGN OF FOUR – Greenwich Theatre & Touring ★★★★
Sherlock Holmes is back on stage in a thrilling new adaptation of The Sign of Four that takes audiences from the heat of India and the height of the British Raj to the foggy streets of London and the murky Thames.
‘Mysterious, evocative & stylish’: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SIGN OF FOUR – Greenwich Theatre & Touring ★★★★
Sherlock Holmes is back on stage in a thrilling new adaptation of The Sign of Four that takes audiences from the heat of India and the height of the British Raj to the foggy streets of London and the murky Thames.
‘The actors deserve something meatier to sink their teeth into’: SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL CURTAIN – Touring
If I have been overly harsh, I apologise, and I’m sure many audience members found aspects to enjoy in The Final Curtain, however, if ‘cosy crime’ is your thing, I think you’d be better off sticking to ITV3 repeats.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES – Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★
What I like – as well as the daft jokes and a ridiculous sauna scene in sock-suspenders and full tweeds — is the disciplined slickness of it: that Reduced-Shakespeare or play-that-goes-wrong quality which lifts shows like this out of the tiresome arent-we-amusing college revue level and into proper theatre.
NEWS: Trevor Nunn helms lost play, Sherlock Holmes gets final curtain in Bath
Theatre Royal Bath will present three new in-house production in its spring 2018 season: new Harley Granville Barker discovery Agnes Colander, directed by Trevor Nunn; the UK premiere of Samuel D Hunter’s The Whale; and Simon Reade’s take on Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain.