I Went to the Theatre...

Written and directed by Emma Govier, the school drama teacher, this updates the Shakespeare play by moving the action to the Las Vegas and S...

A Broadway hit from 1959, Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Princess and the Pea . Or rather,...

Back to school for the third of three performances of this exciting mystery-thriller. As expected, it was a lot slicker. Entrances and exi...

There are few things I enjoy more than a school play. This is an incredibly ambitious work, written and directed by Emma Govier. The plot ...

Every year Andrew Pollard brings his remarkable pantomime to Greenwich Theatre , and every year it surprises and delights. The stories may c...

Spanning half a century and featuring just two actors, this is a charming adaptation of a 1966 Broadway musical that was based on Jan de Har...

Leader of the Labour Party during World War II, Clement Attlee was elected as UK Prime Minister in 1945 and went on to create the welfare st...

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was a highly respected American writer and broadcaster who published several collections of oral histories. His con...

Written by Joanna Murray-Smith and directed by Sarah Howard, Bombshells is a one-woman show that tells the stories of four very different w...

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 musical is handled brilliantly by the Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 talents at Dame Alice Owen’s in a production that’s...

Godspell is a 1971 musical written by Stephen Schwartz. Based on a series of Bible parables, it has been revived countless times and seen b...

Flat Out is a good, old-fashioned farce. It details an afternoon in the lives of a small group of people in a prestigious but mice-infested ...

Directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr, this adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ 1944 play comes with the baggage of taking on an all-time classic, but...

Presented by Brian Logan (who also directs) and Shamira Turner, Human Jam addresses an issue right on the doorstep of the Camden People’s T...

It’s 1930 and Sir Charles Jasper plans to celebrate his birthday on the stage of a “haunted” theatre. He is set to inherit two million pound...

It’s Chicago in 1924 and two school friends are reunited. Nathan Leopold (Bart Lambert) is obsessively in love with Richard Loeb (Jack Reitm...

Directed by Mary Swan, the Proteus theatre company’s version of “the Scottish play” is boldly set in the City in October 1987 just as Black ...

Saga is the daughter of God, sent down from Heaven to observe how we live on Earth. In her brief time here, she passes through a series of s...

A one-man show written and performed by Billy Hicks, and produced and directed by Lucie Regan, Connecting... is a funny and moving look at ...

What does it mean to be Welsh? And what does it mean to be Welsh when everything you know and love about Wales is under threat? These are th...

Written by Serafina Cusack and performed by three members of the Anima Theatre Company, Blue Departed is a remarkably intense piece of work...

It was good to have writer and director Andrew Pollard back after his year off (see Cinderella ). It was also a delight to see Anthony Sparg...

Written by Dusty Hughes and directed by Alice Hamilton, Paradise is a gently profound play about ageing. Roddy (played by Geoffrey Freshwat...

From the outset I knew this wouldn’t be a standard evening at the theatre. The opening set piece – “Bohemian Rhapsody” performed with absurd...

The latest show by the Guild Players had a lot to live up to after the stunning Widdershins . Written by Carole Tricker, this is a comedy ab...

I have seen many productions by the Guild Players, and this was probably the strongest. Written by Don Nigro and directed by Louisa Agamemno...

The annual Greenwich treat. I was dismayed to discover that this year the pantomime would not star Andrew Pollard, who has been the actor/d...

This little-known 1917 play by Peter Pan writer J. M. Barrie is magical and mind-blowing. A group of people, seemingly with nothing in com...

Nine to Five  was a 1980 film starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin . Dolly wrote the theme song and then contributed additional...

It’s only six months since I last saw Peter Pan , or rather Peter Pan: A New Adventure – writer/director/dame Andrew Pollard’s hilarious p...

On the way up the hill to the Gatehouse pub, we saw Ray Davies and a lady friend walk past us: a good omen for the night ahead. 

 This sh...

In this dazzling production by Traffic of the Stage, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella is updated from St. Petersburg in 1864 to London in 2...