3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (334+ words) Noël Coward wrote Present Laughter as a vehicle for himself, playing the egotistical, womanising actor Garry Essendine. Tracy-Ann Oberman has switched both the gender and era, creating an entirely new dynamic for the play, now set in 1970s New York, and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (517+ words) Built around the songs of Green Day, American Idiot is a story of drugs, war, responsibility and irresponsibility all in the pursuit of some version of the American dream post-9/11. For this production, the time period has been shifted from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (246+ words) A captivating Sufi myth told through dance and music, Songs of the Bulbul offered a beautiful, mesmerising and refreshingly different hour of theatre. The performance opens in darkness as a narrator recounts the story of the bulbul, or nightingale. Captured…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (581+ words) East Midlands Theatre. If somebody pitched the plot of Operation Mincemeat as pure fiction, I might accuse them of stretching credibility. A stolen corpse, a fabricated identity, a briefcase full of fake secrets, and a plan designed to fool the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (124+ words) Book: Abe Borrows, Jack Weinstock, Willis Gilbert Lyrics: Lorenz Hart, Frank Loesser Set Design: Linda Croston Associate set designer: Guy Evans Sound Design: Simon Carter This witty office based 1960s satire still has the power to entertain and expose corrupt office…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (587+ words) East Midlands Theatre. Dead Dog in a Suitcase Musical Direction: Jude Taylor The latest show to hit the Royal and Derngate is, for lack of a better word, ambitious. A collaboration between Community groups, The Actors Company and RDCC, the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (277+ words) Author: James Graham (based on the book “Bad Show: The Quiz, the Cough, the Millionaire Major” by Bob Woffinden and James Plaskett)Director: Sean BakerProduced by: BawdsVenue: ADC Theatre CambridgePerformance: 7 July 2026 Opening night of Quiz was a hugely entertaining piece…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (264+ words) The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is famous for creating performance spaces in the most unlikely of places – including public loos. Conversely this week sees the opening at Curve Leicester of Edinburgh Fringe award-winning musical Public, where four unlikely companions find themselves…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (647+ words) East Midlands Theatre. Legally Blonde at The Theatre Royal, Nottingham. I have a confession to make dear reader – I arrive at the Theatre Royal this evening armed with only limited knowledge of Legally Blonde: I have somehow managed to miss…...