Michael Grandage’s sumptuous and colourful production of Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel begins with the teenage young lordling in his nightshirt asking

People are often dismissive of pantomimes, and I can understand why. After all, they are designed to be silly and throwaway, relying upon a catalogue

VOXED, associate company at Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, premièred its latest work It’s not me… at Dance City on Friday 2 December to a well-filled auditorium. It’s

When the English-language version of Les Misérables made its West End debut in 1985, the critics immediately began sharpening their knives. For Francis King, writing

Things are not looking good for Jack at the start of Chickenshed’s festive version of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack (performed in the blue rota

The highly successful production team of Plested, Brown and Wilsher return with their fifth pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, at the Corn Exchange and it’s

John Major’s disastrous 1993 privatisation that split the railways into 113 fragments and preceded four major rail disasters may at first seem more a matter

120 years ago, just as legendary Dame of Drury Lane Dan Leno was taking to the stage in a role that would cement his place

Charles Way’s Cinderella The Midnight Princess from Cahoots at Belfast’s The Mac offers a fresh, contemporary take on a traditional seasonal tale, looks wonderful and

In 2012, when Anthony Spargo played the Sheriff of Nottingham in Greenwich Theatre’s pantomime Robin Hood, little did he know that ten years later, not

‘Tis the time of Christmas Carols—I mean Dickens’s—but here’s one with a difference, a lyrical American opera with musical theatre vibes, “commissioned by the Houston

Clint Dyer’s production of Othello begins the moment you enter the auditorium, when Chloe Lamford’s setting of a stepped arena is covered by projected rows