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Do West End playhouses need to employ bouncers?

04.08.09

The standard of London theatregoers’ behaviour is apparently deteriorating. Kieron Quirke investigates.... more

Bouncers tackle rowdy West End audiences

03.08.09

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Forbidden Broadway to be another big success

03.07.09

Forbidden Broadway makes its third and splashiest appearance in London after 27 mostly triumphant years in New York.... more

Hot Tickets: London's going out guide

29.06.09

Inherit The Wind is coming to the Old Vic, visit Portobello Film Festival for free and book Into The Hoods at Southbank now.... more

A Little Night Music goes west

08.04.09

On transfer to the West End, A Little Night Music leaves Nicholas de Jongh far less than enraptured. ... more

Wall Street crash course in Saturday Night

26.03.09

Set on the eve of the 1929 Wall Street Crash, Stephen Sondheim’s first-ever musical, Saturday Night, transfers direct to the Arts Theatre from its Jermyn Street Theatre sell-out.... more

Stage success tastes so sweet for Menier Chocolate Factory

17.02.09

The tiny Menier Chocolate Factory theatre is to transfer its seventh production to the West End in just five years... more

A Little Night Music is exceptionally ravishing

04.12.08

Trevor Nunn's dream-struck, elegantly scaled-down production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music is a serious delight.... more

Sweeney produces London’s finest pie

20.11.08

Director Sasha Regan fills the tiny playing area for Sweeney Todd so cleverly that all of grey, sinister, stinking London is suggested. ... more

West Side comes to West End

25.07.08

Leonard Bernstein's classic musical of knife deaths and gangland feuds has never had such relevance, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Sorry, critics, but that's entertainment

09.07.08

Can you hear the cheers? Can you see the standing ovation? Yes, the London theatre scene is alive and high-kicking, with a record-busting 13 million ticket sales just announced for the whole of 2007... more

Swash, buckle and music in Zorro

02.07.08

An eclectic combination of talents and influences should make Zorro the musical memorable, whether it is a hit or a flop.... more

DVDs of the week

20.05.08

Tim Burton has a good stab at musicals in Sweeney Todd, Seinfield fans will get a buzz out of Bee Movie and My Kid Could Paint That may start an argument.... more

Into the inner-city groove

09.05.08

Into the Hoods is about real bodily pleasure. You come out dazzled by the back flips — cursing your own wheezy unfitness, says Liz Hoggard.... more

Viva Maria, solo star

28.03.08

Maria Friedman is a charismatic performer who knows how to woo an audience - so she can be excused if she sometimes sounds a little tired.... more

Hoods take hip-hop out of the ghetto

27.03.08

Ghetto fabulous fairy tale Into the Hoods, a good humoured take on Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, proves hip-hop has the dramatic range to tell stories.... more

Streetdance meets Sondheim

18.03.08

Into the Hoods will show whether breakdancing can make the leap from the dance fringe to the theatrical mainstream, says Liz Hoggard.... more

Sweeney the spectacular

24.01.08

Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter form a scintillating partnership in Sweeney Todd, a macabre masterpiece from director Tim Burton.... more

Telling the story backwards does not work

23.01.08

Merrily We Roll Along is not golden Stephen Sondheim but the sporadically great music is well served.... more

Perfect Depp gets away with murder

11.01.08

Tim Burton's eerily intimate adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's dark masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, revels in its brazen gore.... more

Burton deserves an Oscar for gothic Sweeney

11.01.08

Director Tim Burton looks a favourite for an Oscar after Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was hailed a masterpiece.... more

A very potent potion

14.11.07

French director Laurent Pelly has triumphed again with a delicious new L'elisir d'amore, says Fiona Maddocks.... more

A musical that dares to be serious

25.09.07

Parade is that rare thing: a piece of musical theatre, deftly executed, that dares to be serious, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Sondheim has air of superiority

09.08.07

Stephen Sondheim's brilliant, clever musicals are still not a cert in the West End, but he can fill a concert hall.... more

Making the cut with the mighty Bryn

06.07.07

Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman star in the bloodthirsty melodrama Sweeney Todd, which is part opera, part musical... more

Away with the fairytales

19.06.07

Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is set in a Shrek-type fantasy world and gets a fine outing in this magical production at the Royal Opera House.... more

Sharp lyrics and catchy tunes bring us all on side

02.05.07

Fiona Mountford could see why Side by Side by Sondheim was the work which nudged the composer-lyricist out of his cult ghetto and into popular recognition when it opened at The Venue.... more

Spamalot actress attacks Olivier awards snub

19.02.07

The cast of Spamalot have launched an attack on the judges of the Olivier Awards after the Monty Python musical failed to win a single prize.... more

South Bank Centre's summer season unveiled

25.01.07

The refurbishment of the new Royal Festival Hall will open on schedule, it has been announced, as highlights of the South Bank Centre's summer season are unveiled.... more

Sending in the clowns

10.01.07

Rogers, Hammerstein and Lloyd Webber are among the luminaries parodied in Musical Of Musicals. And it's superb entertainment, says Fiona Mountford.... more