The star of ‘Normal People’ returns to the stage in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, Tennessee Williams’s tale of two dysfunctional families – but Edgar-Jones’s Hollywood poise and an unbalanced plot means she fails to make an emotional impact

Daisy Edgar-Jones is a total revelation in Rebecca Frecknall’s gothic horrorshow spin on the Tennessee Williams classic

Blanche McIntyre’s production manages to make speeches about Latin manuscripts and grammar fun

Kristin McCarthy Parker’s production continues until 11 January in London and then tours nationwide until April 2025

Velvet vocals, sequins, and the pure joy of musicals.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ This unashamedly highbrow play has some top class performances but is a bit too smart for its own good

Virginia Gay’s gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac is now playing at London’s Park Theatre.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – a glittering triumph that will leave you howling for more! Last night, we attended the Press Night for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Theatre Royal Plymouth’s new panto. Going to the panto is such a big Christmas and New Year tradition in many households so it’s…

The stage adaptation of Mean Girls is “a pink and glittering addition to the West End”, debuting in the summer of 2024. Read our interview with Georgina Castle who stars in the production as Regina George.

Small Acts of Love – a new play about the Lockerbie bombing and its aftermath – is written by playwright Frances Poet with music from Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross, and will be directed by Dominic Hill

The smash hit musical 101 Dalmatians plays at Theatre Royal Brighton this festive season, starring Kerry Ellis as Cruella De Vil.

It has been announced that original cast members of the National Theatre production and the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway production of Hadestown will reprise their roles for a limited run at the Lyric Theatre from 11 February-9 March 2025.

Soham based Viva Theatre’s third Christmas pantomime was “spectacular” says Ely Standard reviewer.

Its pantomime may be a late starter this year but the Tyne Theatre on Westgate Road was soon rocking to laughter, pop and show songs, hip hop…

The full cast has been announced for John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning drama DOUBT a parable which runs at the Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from February 2025. Find out more on Theatre and Tonic.

Panto giant Jack and the Beanstalk dazzles at Southampton Mayflower Theatre

“I’m dead, then? Good.” With this wry, sardonic opening line, 77-year-old AE Housman finds himself ferried across the River Styx to Hades in Tom Stoppard’s 1997 play The Invention of Love. These words befit a renowned Latin poet and scholar who, famous in his lifetime for his poetry book A Shropshire Lad, never quite lived. […]

Read our review of *Cyrano*, adapted by and starring Virginia Gay, now in performances at the Park Theatre to 11 January 2025. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

It’s that most wonderful time of the year and it can mean only one thing. Yep – it’s Panto season!!

There were some intriguing themes introduced that could have been fleshed out more, though a convincing cast does well with what they are given.

Check out these images inside west London’s new venue Capital Theatre, which opens with a production of *Dirty Dancing* next autumn. Read more on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Imaginative and hugely enjoyable – a refreshing antidote to pantomime. The children present appeared suitably entranced.

The timeless holiday classic White Christmas is set to dazzle audiences at Scarborough Spa as it opens on Friday December 20.

Virginia Gay’s Cyrano is billed as ‘after Edmond Rostand’ and is far more than a faithful adaptation of the classic tragic tale of doomed romance. In reimagining the play, Gay finds an interesting central role for herself as the overlooked and lovesick Cyrano, wishing for more from her friendship with the bubbly Roxanne, and finding a facade of words to hide the hurt she feels at comments about her ugly looks.

From an opera featuring roller-skating nuns to an update of Euripides that premiered in a quarry – Natasha Tripney’s international theatre highlights for 2024

Gwilym Lee will play the lead role of football manager Gareth Southgate, taking over from Joseph Fiennes who received an Olivier nod for his performance. Read more on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Performed at the Collective Theatre, read our review of Arsenal and No Trace.

Performances of Stephen Joseph Theatre’s Christmas show for 2024, Aladdin, are now taking place.

A reviews round-up for Rebecca Frecknall’s new Almeida Theatre production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

Daily Echo review of Jack and the Beanstalk, this year’s giant Mayflower Theatre Southampton pantomime.

Performed at the Sherman Theatre, read our review of A Christmas Carol.

⭐ RUMOUR – HADESTOWN – WEST END PRO-SHOT PLANNED ⭐ A pro-shot of the multi award-winning musical HADESTOWN is being planned, it has been rumoured. The pro-shot would reportedly be filme…

A demanding and yet not completely inaccessible show, it is at least consistent in its intense analysis of ancient works as well as the world inhabited by Housman and his contemporaries.

Hadestown announce that original cast members of the National Theatre production and the Broadway production will reprise their roles for

Rebecca Frecknall turns the volume all the way up on Tennessee Williams’ tale of a family’s implosion, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Lennie James

Limited London season and live streamed to you! Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells Theatre 18-23 December 2024 & 7-12 January 2025 WITH 8 SHOWS LIVE STREAMED AROUND THE WORLD 20-23 December 2024 Making Merry Mischief,

The cast of Wicked The Musical put on a truly magnificent performance at the Manchester Palace Theatre last Wednesday.

Published in 1936, Noel Streatfeild’s story of the three adopted Fossil sisters is a classic children’s book, even getting a mention in the film You’ve Got Mail. This new adaptation of the classic story for the stage is written by Kendall Feaver and directed by Katy Rudd. Read our review of Ballet S

The quicksilver actor is a vocal glory as the poet and classicist AE Housman looking back at his younger, tormented self in Tom Stoppard’s play

The stage adaptation of The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, performed at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton. Read our review on Theatre and Tonic.

This endearingly goofy ‘stage remake’ of Jurassic Park is an enjoyably silly night at the theatre

Tom Stoppard returns to Hampstead Theatre with The invention of Love.

Arcola Theatre has announced Nigel Cooke, Nigel Betts and Edward Hogg as the cast for The Double Act, a new play by Mark Jagasia, former national newspaper journalist turned playwright.

High-energy, gleefully lo-fi reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park by New York-based troupe Recent Setbacks is theatrically smart, if insubstantial

The production was delayed for 15 minutes after the audience member returned from the bathroom

Leaping between its period setting and the present, Kendell Feaver’s adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 book is as delicately balanced as a dancer en pointe

The People’s panto is certainly well named, I thought, as the people came streaming in for the opening performance of this year’s Alice in Wonderland.

Performed at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, read our review of Zanna Don’t on the Theatre and Tonic website.

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A review of Sleeping Beauty at the Broadway Theatre in Catford on the Theatre and Tonic website.