The musical 42nd Street ran for five years at Drury Lane from 1984 and has been regularly revived for regional tours and West End outings ev...

The 1959 hit musical Sound of Music has one of the best scores ever written with wonderful Richard Rodgers tunes that tug at the heartstring...

Thames Television was at the height of its creative powers in the late Seventies and early Eighties and under the wonderful Verity Lambert (...

We can measure the success of a Chichester Festival season by the transfer of shows into the West End and they have a good track record of m...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has a duty to stage the plays of the Bard and bring them to new audiences, over 400 years since the works were...

Martin McDonagh has written some extraordinary plays usually based around an Irish setting with dark comedy spoken by fascinating characters...

The programme tells us that the origins of Robin Hood are in 1220 in Yorkshire, but I was brought up watching the black and white TV series ...

Sir Ian McKellen and Roger Allam have established themselves as two national treasures of theatrical performances across the spectrum from P...

  The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s 1990 musical is apparently the first professional staging of the show sin...

Many plays acquire the by-line “Classic”, but few deserve them as much as the writing of Arthur Miller. The Crucible, written in 1953, is a ...

In the search for titles for new stage productions the old film catalogues are providing a great source which might appeal to theatre audien...

  The ruins of Reading Abbey, in the shadow of Reading Gaol, provide a perfect setting for historical drama. If the walls could talk, they w...

Peter James’s Brighton-based detective stories of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace have a common feature in their titles with the inclusi...

There was a golden age of American musicals after the Second World War when titles like Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (194...

In sharp contrast to Noel Coward’s classic The Vortex in the main house at Chichester, Amy Herzog’s 2011 play at the Minerva Studio opposite...

Noel Coward wrote, directed, and starred in his 1924 production of The Vortex which was seen at the time as scandalous with its depiction of...

The National Theatre has the expertise and the resources to do full justice to classic plays and this revival of Dancing at Lughnasa (the ha...

The story of Hamnet, Shakespeare's only son is a powerful one of grief and separation guilt although Maggie Farrell who wrote the book o...

It is 111 years since the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton and sank a few days later on the morning of 15th April 1912 with the loss of...

The Mayflower in Southampton must be the number one venue for Regional Touring musicals and over the last year we have enjoyed Fisherman’s F...