The 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof was the first Broadway show to run more than 3,000 performances, winning nine Tony Awards. It is poignant and at the same time humorous, being set in the Jewish village of Anatevka in Imperial Russia about 1905. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/fidd...
I always jump at the chance to visit the Park Theatre, my absolute favourite London venue for consistently exquisite productions, and, as usual, I was not disappointed. As a pescatarian, I wasn’t wholly enthused by the title, but I was intrigued nonetheless. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
I suppose one shouldn’t be too demanding of a musical full of songs from the back catalogue of the dance-pop music group Steps. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/here...
Dead Man Walking follows the final days of a convicted killer on Death Row, a man who is considered to be beyond redemption. The only person to challenge this view is a devout nun who believes that everyone is entitled to forgiveness and salvation. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/dead...
Comedy, TV and musical theatre icon Jason Manford will make his highly anticipated return to the stage in fetching pantaloons next summer in the award-winning comedy musical Something Rotten! www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...
The stage adaptation of The Line of Beauty is based on Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel, but not having read it, I approached the play without comparison or expectation. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
I was seventeen years old and still at school on 21 October 1966, the day before half term, when a huge coal waste tip, unable to absorb weeks of heavy rain, high on the hills above the Welsh valleys'village of Aberfan, collapsed, engulfing the village school www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/mr-j...
There’s an ongoing conversation amongst those who care about such things as to how much of what is generally considered to be the dramatic works of William Shakespeare was actually written by him. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/emil...
The Monkey’s Paw, written by W.W. Jacobs and first published in 1902, is one of the best-known short stories in the macabre/horror genre. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
Having grown up in an alcoholic household myself, I was immediately drawn to this solo play, written and performed by Texan storyteller Stacie Burrows, and I wasn’t disappointed. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/no-g...
It’s just as well that Mark Ryder wants to take this show to the Edinburgh Fringe: it would sit very well amongst other shows exploring toxic masculinity and what appears to be a successful person on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath that www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/feli...
The character of Percy Jackson first arrived in 2004, springing from the imagination of Rick Riordan in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a series that swiftly became a cornerstone of modern young adult literature. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
Written by American playwright and author Madeleine George, The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2014, and is now enjoying a London revival by the 5go Theatre Company. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
Following rave reviews and sold-out performances throughout its 2025 season touring the UK, producers Jack Maple, Thomas Hopkins, SAMS Entertainment and Carl Moellenberg are delighted to announce thatthe first ever UK and International tour of Patricia www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...
It is always a pleasure to encounter a new play by Torben Betts, especially when it is billed as an old-fashioned "comedy thriller"! Except, of course, that Betts could never write anything that approached "old-fashioned"! www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/murd...
Riddle me this. When is a pantomime not a pantomime? The answer to that is currently at the Barbican, where the Royal Shakespeare Company is presenting Wendy & Peter Pan, Ella Hickson’s retelling of the classic J M Barrie story. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/wend...
The Entertainment Providers, the team that brought last year’s sell-out show Snow White, are back for 2025 with a brand-new production of Sinderella at the prestigious Scala in the heart of London’s West End, for a limited run from 19th December 2025 - 11th www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...
The show’s programme has a couple of photos of Merle Oberon (1911-1979). Oberon was born in Bombay to a White father and a Burgher mother, though for most of her life, she asserted she was born in Tasmania, but her birth records had been destroyed in a fire. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/hedd...
It is Halloween week, and many theatres are currently attempting to give their patrons a vicarious thrill as the dark nights set in. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/dead...
Oh yes he is! Islington’s own Jeremy Corbyn is swapping Parliament for panto this Christmas, popping up as The Wizard of Oz-lington in the gloriously camp, all-singing, all-dancing, Wicked Witches – A Popular Panto! www.londontheatre1.com/?p=413524
The 1980s was a highly memorable decade for pop culture, the influence of which still ripples into our present day. It was the era of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk and Madonna’s reign as the Queen of Pop. www.londontheatre1.com/theatre-news...
How pertinent, poignant and perceptive of the Richmond Shakespeare Society to put on The Winter’s Tale on the very weekend the clocks go back as we enter the winter months. www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/the-...
Have you ever thought of rehearsing your birthday party in order to remove agonising social anxiety? If you are shy, like Isabel Renner, the author and performer of this seventy-minute, one-person play, you might well have done! www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/wyld...
