For sixteen years, Only Fools and Horses had the nation hooked to its Christmas special, with millions of us tuning in to see what brothers Del Boy

A billowing, grey silk curtain like a ship’s wind-buffeted sail fills the proscenium arch, and the thunder of a musical storm is already building up

I have been to many Eastern Angles Christmas shows over the years, but I have to say that this one is really up with the

Handel composed Theodora nearly a decade after his last opera. It was his favourite oratorio, the only one based on a Christian subject, with characterful music broken

Pantomime’s centuries-long survival is down to its willingness to evolve. Recent years have seen great transformations in the genre, with Evolution Productions’ Jack and the Beanstalk at

In 2019, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) brought three programmes of dance to Sadler’s Wells, now they return with four programmes. Rereading my enthusiastic reviews of

What goes on backstage doesn’t stay backstage in this most riotous—and most British—of stage comedies. Michael Frayn’s inside-out farce may be a little over 40

As Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans is performed so rarely, it is a pity that Elisabeth Stöppler’s production, conducted by Vitali Alekseenok, is not staged

The latest instalment in HER Productions’ Vignettes features some changes. The venue has moved from Hope Mill to Contact and, more significantly, the plays have

In 2019 the Austrian composer Albin Fries announced he was giving up composing for good, gave away his piano, destroyed most of his CDs and

This two-hander was John McKay’s first produced play, premièred at the Traverse in 1988 with a transfer to the Royal Court. Director Liz Carruthers now

When a crewmate is lost at sea, as Alys Williams tells us at the outset of this one-woman show, there is a strict protocol to