An ill-conceived Queen medley was unspeakably naff, but frankly who cares?
Celine Dion
Comedy
It could be as irritating as nails down a blackboard yet it works as warped surrealism
Dina Martina
Theatre
I soon found myself as overwhelmed by David Calder’s King Lear as any interpretation I have seen in 25 years
King Lear
Why oh why didn't I take up the offer of leaving in the interval?
Kate is a good singer, very expressive, although not a great dancer
This was a masterclass in funk, soul and R&B
London,
Beau Jest parades its old-fashioned credentials and never shrinks from saying predictable things or clutching at clichés to express them... more | Add your review
Funny Girl, best known in its 1968 Barbra Streisand film version, gets back to its theatre roots with big tunes, snappy lyrics and high kicks... more | Add your review
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 | Add your review
Michael Boyd's epic, audacious presentation of Shakespeare's eight history plays is a magnificent achievement. .. more | Add your review
While Levi David Addai's play, Oxford Street, remains plot-lite, its undercurrents of comedy and pathos keep the 85-minute evening buoyant... more | Add your review
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt still have charisma, but the gallop of time means The Ballet Boyz are not as nimble as they were... more | Add your review
The Lady From the Sea director, Hannah Eidinow, gathers together several promising elements but can't quite manage to make them coalesce... more | Add your review
to see Jump at the Peacock Theatre. An unmissable madcap show where comedy meets
combat
After a moving revival of St Joan and an effective staging of the caustic but problematic Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion comes to town... more | Add your review
Nicholas de Jongh found himself as overwhelmed by David Calder's King Lear as any interpretation he has seen in 25 years... more | Add your review
After a sensational run at the Royal Court a debut play by a young writer comes to the West End — and it’s set to make a star out of Matt Smith... more | Add your view
Like most abridgements the David Hare-directed, 90-minute stage adaptation of The Year of Magical Thinking, suffers says Kate Law... more | Add your review
Poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell is the latest to add his four penn'rth on Jack the Ripper in the stylistically elegant The Only Girl in the World... more | Add your review
Conall Morrison's fascinating take on The Taming of the Shrew suggests there are links between the way 16th- and 21st-century men mistreat women... more | Add your review
Deciphering the meaning of Martin Crimp's The City is a process that intrigues and mystifies, irritates and engrosses... more | Add your review
Miss Behave, one of the last female sword swallowers in the world, is to host three weeks of variety at the Roundhouse... more | Add your view
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