VAULT Creative Arts, producers of VAULT Festival, the UK’s leading independent showcase of live performance, has announced an ambitious programme of new opportunities to find, nurture and support ...

Kwame Kwei-Armah said: “This pandemic has wielded an unquantifiable wound to theatre-makers and theatres, the repercussions of which we will continue to feel for a long time. We have seen a year of ...

Aleks Sierz: “The joys of Clare Lizzimore’s production, on Jeremy Herbert’s too boringly naturalistic set with its Christmas tree and lights (yawn), is mainly constrained by Mike Bartlett’s rather ...

One of the few things I enjoy even more than theatre is talking politics. So chairing a post-show discussion about a brilliant new political play, written and directed by a Westminster insider and ...

The full cast has been announced for the first West End production of Chess since 1986 which stars Michael Ball as Anatoly, Alexandra Burke as Svetlana, Murray Head as The Arbiter, Tim Howar as ...

‘I’m absolutely thrilled to be going into the cast of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – a brilliant, brave and British smash hit. I have been waxing for the last year in anticipation and am currently ...

There’s no better escape from the pessimism of the real word than in the theatre. Whether or not the production you choose ends in tears of sorrow or laughter, it’s that feeling of connecting and ...

What a great week the Barn Theatre had last week. After the final production in its inaugural year, Kirk Jameson’s actor-musician revival of Stiles & Drewe’s family musical Just So, opened to another ...

Any piece of theatre that has Annie Lennox proclaiming “I came away with my mind slightly blown”, or better yet, sports on its flyer the quote “brilliant! it got me laid!” from a happy audience member ...

Summer and Smoke had a successful run at the Almeida theatre earlier in the year. The reviews at the time were ecstatic but tickets were impossible to get, so it was great news to hear that it had ...

I’m excited to raise a toast to Robert Bathurst and the team behind poetry-inspired Love, Loss & Chianti – and to pay my first visit to the new, purpose-built home for iconic London arts centre ...

I previously reviewed this entrancing musical version of the 2001 French movie when it received its London premiere in December 2019 in a new production that had launched at tiny Watermill Theatre in ...