At Christmas the Royal Exchange usually stages a classic musical to bring us some festive cheer with Sweet Charity, Guys…
Hard on the heels of 'Waitress' at the Opera House this week, another musical tale of female lust and empowerment…
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With Halloween upon us and the clocks going back at the weekend, our thoughts turn to entertainment of the scary…
In common with most people who love the theatre, I adore the prodigious output of plays, books and diaries that…
In 2009, the Memphis born playwright Katori Hall was unable to secure a venue in the United States for her…
The 1954 film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, will always cast a long shadow in any staging of of this…
Being a theatre reviewer asked to write about a comedy gig is a tricky proposition. Does one deconstruct the jokes,…
Ever since Phoebe Waller-Bridge wowed the Edinburgh Festival in 2013 with 'Fleabag', a litany of semi-autobiographical dark comedies have trod…
'A Bright and Shining Lie' was how writer Neil Sheehan referred to the forty-year involvement of America in the conflict…