4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (733+ words) Music: Gaetano Donizetti Libretto: Felice Romani Director: John Wilkie Donizetti’s opera tends, with good reason, to get performed an awful lot – most recently by Glyndebourne, Wild Arts, and English National Opera – but this version has to be one of the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (259+ words) Cast announced for Stephen Joseph Theatre’s Christmas production of Puss in Boots The Reviews Hub Cast announced for Stephen Joseph Theatre’s Christmas production of Puss in Boots This Christmas, the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough will present Puss in Boots…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (145+ words) Music: Christina Aguilera, Sia, Todrick Hall, and Jess Folley Based on: The Sony Pictures / Screen Gems Movie Burlesque Choreographer: Robin Antin and Aaron Renfree Musical Director: Robert Wicks Visually, the production is striking. Designer Sara Perks’s scenery moves fluidly between…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (171+ words) Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte, translated by Orlando Jopling and Danielle de Niese Conductor: Orlando Jopling Director: Danielle de Niese Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the iconic sequel to The Barber of Seville, is one of the…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (679+ words) Still Life – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Theatre, London The Reviews Hub Still Life – Theatre Royal Drury Lane Theatre, London David Lean’s Brief Encounter is a triumph of British Cinema. The nostalgic tale of a chance meeting and clandestine affair between…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (186+ words) Universal Theatrical Group and Working Title Films have announced casting for the UK and Ireland tour and limited West End season of the original production of Billy Elliot the Musical. The company also includes Tanesha Aba, Marc Akinfolarin, Natasha J…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (647+ words) Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Titas Halder King Lear, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, is such an icon of the Shakespearean canon that you come to it with certain expectations. Indeed, to quote Ian McDiarmid himself in a previous TV role,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (255+ words) Director Maddy Corner’s queer retelling of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy comes to Riverside Studios, in a stunning performance that should be the new benchmark for Shakespeare adaptations. Horgan is excellent as Romeo, and Anish Roy flawless as Juliet’s stand-in Hamed. Taz…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (180+ words) Ian Toner of Glass Mask Theatre talks to us about A Slow Fire, currently at Jermyn Street Theatre. The play transfers from Ireland How did you get the role in Dublin, and have you acted in a Simon Stephens play…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (176+ words) Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter Philip Barry’s 1939 play The Philadelphia Story has spawned a smash-hit movie in 1940 starring Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant as well as the beloved 1956 movie musical High Society, starring Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. So…...