1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (608+ words) Mark Shenton in West Sussex ★★★★☆ 16 July 2026 Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics, adapted closely from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion) and Frederick Loewe (music) premiered their most successful musical My Fair Lady on Broadway exactly 70 years ago. There have been countless…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (631+ words) Robert Schneider in Connecticut ★★★★★ 15 July 2026 The only thing I know to compare to a Gershwin musical is a well-turned double play in baseball. What is more, this type of “let’s put on a show” musical asks us to believe that…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (458+ words) Jeremy Malies in Central London ★☆☆☆☆ 12 July 2026 Half a dozen oil barrels confront you as the lights come up on the Cockpit Theatre stage. “Well, at least Clarence is going to get a good dunking in the butt of Malmsey!” I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (406+ words) Sasho Ognenovski in Austria 1 July 2026 If art being produced at any one time is a benchmark of humanity’s spiritual wealth, then theatre festivals are significant cultural touchstones. Art is created by human beings from themselves and for themselves meaning that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (379+ words) Annie M Loui in Province of Perugia ★★★★★ 29 June 2026 Wakka Wakka are a theatre company with a dual base in New York City and Oslo. They bring their Dead as a Dodo show to Spoleto and reading the plot synopsis, I…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (170+ words) Neil Dowden in the West End ★★★★★ 29 June 2026 The use of music (composed by Alex Baranowksi) here is also ingenious, with a sextet of actor-musicians apparently won by Cyrano in a wager following him around everywhere (even into battle) as almost…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (576+ words) Jeremy Malies in West London ★☆☆☆☆ 29 June 2026 Rajiv Joseph’s script gives the background to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in June 1914, an action that caused the First World War and resulted in the deaths of between 15 and 22 million people. Joseph chooses…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (284+ words) John Murphy in North East England ★★★★☆ 29 September 2026 If you’re going to revive Summer Holiday – originally adapted from the 1963 Cliff Richard movie into a stage musical in the 1990s – there is no point putting a modern twist on things, or adding some…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (365+ words) Louise Penn on the South Bank ★★★★★ 28 June 2026 It’s 1984, and the pre-show tunes and slides remind us of cultural icons, political milestones, and industrial unrest. The new musical Pride – which premiered at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff earlier this year before arriving…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (696+ words) Mark Brown in the Scottish Highlands ★★★★☆ 13 June 2026 However – while Cumming’s appointment was a breathtaking and surprising masterstroke – it does carry a considerable logic in theatrical terms. For all his fame as a screen performer, the actor has always maintained his…...