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,
Despite an impressive performance from Darius, a long-winded struggle to cram spectacular film Gone With The Wind on the West End stage was not worth the effort, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review (8)
A refreshing take on the middle classes in Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage provokes laughter but does not stimulate much thought... more | Add your review
Broadway triumph Jersey Boys is well-written and a refreshing change from usual rock 'n' roll tribute musicals but could lack wide appeal for London audiences, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
After Connie Fisher, her successor in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Sound of Music, Summer Strallen, comes as something of an anti-climax, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
to see Jump at the Peacock Theatre. An unmissable madcap show where comedy meets
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Hit Broadway musical, Jersey Boys, won over audiences and critics with its songs and is now beginning previews in the West End... more | Add your review (11)
Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum maintain terrific physical momentum in Speed-the-Plow, helping to disguise the play's pretty soft punch... more | Add your review
On this occasion, it feels as though The Importance of Being Earnest has primarily been set up as a star vehicle to drive Penelope Keith back into the West End... more | Add your review
Peter Hall's production of The Vortex catches Noel Coward's comedy but not enough of his underlying seriousness... more | Add your review
Four seasons after its National Theatre premiere, The History Boys makes a stronger, more emotional impact in Paul Miller's capable production than ever... more | Add your review
Edward Fox throws himself with crusty gusto into a pair of John Mortimer comedies, Legal Fictions, that have not aged well... more | Add your review
Absurd Person Singular offers a perfect antidote to the cloying bonhomie of the season and proves to be an irresistable piece of theatre... more | Add your review
It is very difficult not to like Dealer's Choice, as Patrick Marber's 1995 play remains cool, funny and supremely accessible... more | Add your review
Hairspray, a musical about sex, love and civil rights, sends the rare, sweet smell of success wafting through the Shaftesbury, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review
Harold Pinter has never offered us more illuminating, sexually-related pleasure than in The Lover & The Collection, two exquisite one-acters... more | Add your review
Jonathan Kent's revival of absurd black comedy The Sea, oscillates abruptly between farce, comedy and despair... more | Add your review
Playwright Paul Sellar surely writes from brutal lived experience in Worlds End, a biting look at love in a basement flat gone sour... more | Add your review
Having run in London for 13 years before touring nationally, Rob Bettinson's slickly directed revival of Buddy could well occupy the Duchess Theatre for the next decade... more | Add your review (12)
Lee Mead, winner of the BBC's Any Dream Will Do, flaunts quite the smallest ego of any Joseph Nicholas de Jongh has seen... more | Add your review (10)
The craze for turning the public into a nation of casting directors has not worked with Grease. Is it not high time producers found real stars for musicals again, asks Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review (11)
People said it couldn't be done - and they were right. The Lord of the Rings at the Theatre Royal is a costly, messy folly that will appal Tolkien fans.... more | Add your review (17)
Simon Russell Beale makes the perfect King Arthur in deliriously daft musical Spamalot and he's having a killer rabbit of a time following in the coconut-shells-for-horses'-hooves of Tim Curry. .. more | Add your review
This affectionate adult spoof of Sesame Street is a one-joke show. Unlike the upbeat, educational characters of the TV series, Avenue Q's puppets tell racist jokes, screw around and download porn... more | Add your review (8)
Billy Elliot The Musical is just irresistible. It catches you in its fervent grasp, and pins you down with all the artfulness of a vintage seducer, right to the misguided, sentimental finale... more | Add your review
Kander and Ebb's glorious Cabaret is a politically motivated musical which scorns a happy ending and packs an emotional punch, says Nicholas de Jongh. .. more | Add your review (8)
There are some simply great tunes and moving performances in this impeccable revival of musical favourite Fiddler on the Roof, says Fiona Mountford... more | Add your review (4)
The 39 Steps played for laughs? It doesn't take much tweaking and this production is full of fun, but it is hard to avoid the feeling that it should be in Edinburgh rather than London at the... more | Add your review
Wicked belongs in a rare pantheon of musicals in which the music does not matter much. It is the experience of a magical mystery tour through the fantasy land of Oz that takes and holds attention... more | Add your review (34)
The musical version of Dirty Dancing has little of the film's pelvic-thrust dancing but offers something distinct and more intimate than the celluloid experience, says Nicholas de Jongh... more | Add your review (5)
Theatre Review: It is a miracle to some, an awful aberration to others. Despite earning near-universal critical derision on its opening in May 2002, We Will Rock You, the Queen compilation musical with a terrible Ben Elton plot attached, celebrated its 1,000th performance last night.... more | Add your review
Disney's stage version of The Lion King burst into life in a blaze of glory, casting a spell on the Lyceum with its outstanding costumes and music. No wonder the tickets are like gold dust... What the papers say about The Lion King .. more | Add your review
Opinion is divided as to whether Mamma Mia! can turn hit Abba songs into an entertaining musical or if this rehash of Seventies slush makes a good show. Abba fans block Soho street .. more | Add your review
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