The Ocean at the End of the Lane is an adaptation of what anyone would describe as an unstageable book. Packed with fantasy, magic and leaps

This is the autobiographical story of Vernon Vanriel who was six years old when he came to the UK from Jamaica with his parents, part

As Dawn Walton explains in the introduction which bookends Alfred Fagon Selected Plays, opposite a contribution from one of the winners, Juliet Gilkes Romero, but

Everyone knows Swan Lake—a sweeping statement I know, but if not the actual ballet and its many variations, then storybook versions and indeed Tchaikovsky’s familiar

A strong cast and a vibrant production make this a memorable night at the theatre. Director Rebecca Frecknall stages it in-the-round on a bare platform.

Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show has enjoyed a meteoric overnight success. Previously a member of an obscure sketch troupe Massive Dad, the demure Kingsman, an

Rossini’s William Tell, which premièred in 1829, was his 38th and final opera. It deserves to be performed more often. (Nowadays the overture is played

On a short visit to London in 2017, I wandered into the Old Vic and saw an earlier version of the play. Seeing it again

In 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the previous December, six-year-old George Takei and his family were among more than 125,000 Japanese-Americans rounded

The peculiar plot of In The Net set in 2025 is ambitious without having any clear purpose or direction. Lots of possible themes are chucked

Kurios, getting its European première at the Royal Albert Hall, set out to be a steampunk dream, a fin de siècle fantasy. First seen in Canada in

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has formed the basis for a number of modern entertainments. Isobel Mcarthur, author