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SONS OF THE PROPHET by Stephen Karam Directed by Bijan Sheibani Hampstead Theatre – until 14 January 2023 https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2022/sons-of-the-prophet/ Suffering as the basis for explosive comedy appears to be something of a specialty for acclaimed American dramatist Stephen Karam. Back at Hampstead Theatre where his Pulitzer and Tony winning The Humans was seen before the […]

HARRY’S CHRISTMAS by Steven Berkoff Directed by Scott Le Crass King’s Head Theatre – until 24 December 2022 https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/harrys-christmas A Steven Berkoff Christmas show was never gonna be all cards and fairy lights, although both of these do feature in this production, along with a tree, copious amounts of booze and a massive dose of […]

NEWSIES Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Jack Feldman Book by Harvey Fierstein Based upon the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White Directed and choreographed by Matt Cole Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, Outer London – booking until 16 April 2023 https://newsiesthemusical.co.uk Newsies, although based on a 1992 Disney live action movie that […]

KIMBERLY AKIMBO Book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire Music by Jeanine Tesori Based upon the play by David Lindsay-Abaire Booth Theatre, New York City https://kimberlyakimbothemusical.com Sometimes the hardest theatre to write about, critically speaking, is a production that you’ve loved almost entirely without reservation. I mean, how many superlatives are there?! The current Broadway season […]

AIN’T NO MO’ by Jordan E Cooper Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb Belasco Theatre, New York City – until 26 February 2023 https://aintnomobway.com All aboard the final flight of African American Airlines, a journey taking every last Black American, tired and pissed off from being sidelined, passed over, disappointed, hurt, viewed with suspicion and just plain […]

SARAH From the novel by Scott McClanahan Adapted and directed by Oliver Reese The Coronet Theatre – until 17 December 2022 https://www.thecoronettheatre.com/whats-on/sarah/ Hurtling towards December we may be, but there’s no doubt that Jonathan Slinger is delivering one of the performances of the year in Sarah this extraordinary fever dream of a monologue, distilled from […]

Will Barton and Kelly Price, photograph by Alastair Muir THE SEX PARTY Written and directed by Terry Johnson Menier Chocolate Factory until 7th January 2023 https://www.menierchocolatefactory.com/Online/default.asp Terry Johnson has an interesting history of promising his audience a certain kind of play then delivering something quite unexpected: Dead Funny sounded like a classic, if macabre, farce […]

TAMMY FAYE Music by Elton John Lyrics by Jake Shears Book by James Graham Directed by Rupert Goold Almeida Theatre – until 3rd December 2022 https://almeida.co.uk/how-to-get-tickets-for-tammy-faye An ambitious new musical at a major producing theatre from a team of internationally renowned powerhouse creatives, with a uniformly magnificent cast, featuring the UK debut of a beloved […]

MARY by Rona Munro directed by Roxana Silbert Hampstead Theatre – until 26 November 2022 https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/ The titular Mary of Rona Munro’s brief but absorbing new play is the 16th century Queen of Scots, a fascinating figure whose short, controversial life has already provided rich dramatic fodder for playwrights such as Schiller (the oft-revived Mary […]

A DEAD BODY IN TAOS by David Farr Directed by Rachel Bagshaw Wilton’s Music Hall until 12th November then Warwick Arts Centre https://www.wiltons.org.uk/whatson/763-a-dead-body-in-taos Science fiction is a difficult genre to pull off in the theatre. There’s something about the warm immediacy of live performance that is anathema to the chilly mechanics of futuristic fantasy. The […]