Stage Reviews
Following their sell-out spring season, Showstopper! Will return to the Ambassadors this Autumn
A breathtaking opening dance by Kensington and Chelsea College students set the scene for an extravagant adaptation of Swan Lake at the famous Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
Take a play written some one hundred years ago, littered with suicide, sex, abuse and painful innocence, add a cast of emotionally charged teenagers and a soundtrack of brash rock music, and Spring Awakening is born. Emma Powell tells you just how good it is.
As a proud and practicing misanthrope, it is hard not to find Sayan Kent’s new play appealing, regardless of its shortcomings, says John Darley.
As Britain prepares to commemorate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, a new Panos exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral reveals how human trafficking is a bitter reality for thousands of women, men and children in the UK today. Slave Britain artfully documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in trafficking and calls for an end to this illegal 21st century trade. The
For his final production after a wonderful ten years as artistic director at the Bush, Mike Bradwell has chosen to direct a play by one of his great discoveries, Georgia Fitch.
Interviews
In this time of financial crisis, most want to hate the arrogant City banker causing all the trouble. But why not see the world from his perspective instead, says Jonathan Williams.