Month: February 2024

The 2016 multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar now begins the 2024 leg of its UK tour at Leicester’s Curve, not that many weeks since the venue staged its own production of Evita, another Rice / Lloyd Webber classic. Last weekend, Ralph Fiennes caused a ripple in the media pond on BBC One’s Sunday… Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar

Franco-Uraguayan dramatist Sergio Blanco, one of South America’s most performed living playwrights, calls his work “autofiction” and he puts a writer with his name at its centre, a Sergio played here by Al Nedjari. No that’s not quite right: actor Al Nedjari is playing himself as a ghost; it is the ghost who plays Sergio… Continue reading When You Pass Over My Tomb

Most of the cast of Michael Frayn’s frenetic farce will have clocked up close to 150 performances by the time it ends its six-month UK tour in Oxford next week. With the sort of energy they bring to the show, if this were sport, someone would be looking at what they put in their tea.… Continue reading Noises off

There have been so many variations on The Full Monty—film, musical, TV series—it is considered necessary to advise potential customers that the current touring production is ‘The Play’. The company takes seriously their responsibility to the actors—choreographer Ian West doubles as intimacy co-ordinator and the audience is warned taking photos will result in possible legal action… Continue reading The Full Monty

While stage versions of old sitcoms aren’t uncommon—John Cleese has recently announced that Fawlty Towers will come to theatres later in the year, to join the likes of Porridge, Steptoe and Son, Yes, Prime Minister and several others—it is less common for almost the full original cast to be reassembled for a UK tour with a brand new script. Drop the… Continue reading Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!

Touching, funny, poignant, clever, insightful and technically flawless—this is a must-see show for anyone who enjoys theatre at its best and knows, supports or is someone who is neurodivergent, isolated or just finding life difficult to cope with. Vamos Theatre was founded by writer-director Rachael Savage in 2006 as a platform for masked, non verbal… Continue reading Boy On The Roof

A day can be a long time in politics these days, let alone a week, let alone the amount of time it took for this show to get from first draft to full production, a point acknowledged by the production team, which keeps in at least one quip about a former Cabinet minister. As it… Continue reading A Proper Working-Class Sausage Roll at The Bread & Roses Theatre

Past present and future come together to warn us of our impending doom in a remarkably funny piece about climate, feminism and intimacy. This new play by Flora Wilson Brown might not leave you hopeful by the end, but is a nicely told piece of theatre. Split across three different periods, from pre-civil war New… Continue reading The Beautiful Future Is Coming at Jermyn Street Theatre | Review

It’s set in America. It naturally follows there are guns: it’s their right to bear arms, y’see. The Bronco Billy of the show’s title (Tarinn Callender) heads up a troupe (his choice of word) that bears his own name and is themed around the Wild West, but – spoiler alert – none of them could… Continue reading Bronco Billy The Musical at Charing Cross Theatre