2020 is proving to be an incredible year for theatre. Adding to the excitement is Robert Icke's The Doctor and Laura Wade's The Watsons, with both bound for the West End in a few months time.
Theatre News and Reviews


THE DOCTOR and THE WATSONS Transfer to London's West End
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts Wednesday, February 5 2020, 11:04


Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
By Stuart King Wednesday, February 5 2020, 09:01
Composer and librettist Gerald Barry, has concocted a surrealist world using as its basis, an amalgamation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories. The result is a riotous, fast-paced, fantastically energetic, kaleidoscopic Wonderland, for all ages, (though perhaps not all ears)!


Review: KUNENE AND THE KING at The Ambassadors Theatre
By Miriam Gibson Wednesday, February 5 2020, 07:35
In contemporary South Africa, Jack Morris is an aging alcoholic actor, recently diagnosed with liver cancer. He's dying, but determined to stay alive long enough to star in King Lear. Lunga Kunene is the professional nurse sent to care for him. Jack is white. Kunene is black.
John Kani as Lunga Kunene and Antony Sher as Jack Morris in Kunene and the King. Photo by Ellie Kurttz. © RSC


HAIRSPRAY: PAUL MERTON Makes West End Debut Alongside MICHAEL BALL
By Josephine Balfour-Oatts Tuesday, February 4 2020, 20:24
Have we got news for you: this spring, comedy icon Paul Merton is set to make his West End debut in Hairspray. Is it April yet?


Review: FAUSTUS: THAT DAMNED WOMAN at the Lyric Hammersmith
By Justin Murray Tuesday, February 4 2020, 18:55
In the Hammersmith Lyric’s Faustus: That Damned Woman, Johanna Faustus does not have the title of Doctor when we first meet her. She’s just Johanna the apothecary’s daughter, obsessed with her mother, hanged as a witch.
Jodie McNee as Johanna Faustus in Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith. Photo by Manuel Harlan.
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