A new production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will run at the Duke of York's Theatre later this Spring.
Romeo and Juliet artwork.
By Emmie Newitt Tuesday, February 6 2024, 11:14
A new production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet will run at the Duke of York's Theatre later this Spring.
Romeo and Juliet artwork.
By Stuart King Tuesday, February 6 2024, 09:08
More than 30 years have elapsed since this reviewer last witnessed a production of JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL. On that occasion, Peter O’Toole played the eponymous Soho hack with a propensity for drunkenness and scandalous behaviour. So, how has this bizarrely incongruous beast, weathered the intervening decades? Read on…
By Emmie Newitt Monday, February 5 2024, 17:00
Actress and model Cara Delevingne will be joined by the Olivier Award-winning actor Luke Treadaway in the multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed West End production.
Luke Treadaway (The Emcee) and Cara Delevingne (Sally Bowles) Photo credit Jay Brooks and Emilio Madrid
By Stuart King Monday, February 5 2024, 12:33
In a post-industrial East Midlands town where the largest employer was once the coal mines but is now a warehouse, three sisters prepare for the wedding of one of their number to a Polish immigrant. The scene is primed to unveil a gamut of familiar tropes — class disenchantment, resentment of immigrants, decades-old family feuds and of course the appalling spectacle of drunken wedding dancing en masse. But Beth Steel's caustic family drama also has some unexpected skeletons in its closet, and the excellent cast seem hell-bent on freeing them.
Sinéad Matthews (Sylvia), Lisa McGrillis (Maggie), Philip Whitchurch (Uncle Pete), Lorraine Ashbourne (Aunty Carol) and Lucy Black (Hazel) in Till the Stars Come Down at the National Theatre. Photo (c) Manuel Harlan
By Emmie Newitt Friday, February 2 2024, 08:09
Adapted for the West End stage by the comedy legend, the "greatest British sitcom of all time" (Radio Times) was first recorded at the BBC Television Centre fifty years ago.
Hemi Yeroham, Victoria Fox, Adam Jackson-Fox and Anna-Jane Casey. © Trevor Leighton
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