The View from the Circle

I would love to have been in the room when playwright Lucy Prebble pitched her new show,  A Very Expensive Poison , to The Old Vic. ‘Yeah, ...

Thinking about it, for someone who is as big of a musicals fan as I am I have seen surprisingly little Rogers and Hammerstein. Almost none ...

I don't know what the collective noun for multiple productions of the same play on at the same time is  - an overkill? - but there very ...

In the long, long, loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong list of things that are awful in the world in 2019 I think we can all agree that the trea...

Unbelievably in about twenty years of regular to obsessive theatre going I have never seen a Noel Coward play. Not through any particular il...

I see we have our summer 2019 London theatre mini-trend: plays about the fickle nature of fame. That this coincides with yet another series ...

One of the most pleasing things that can happen to a theatre fan is a show that you tried and failed to get tickets for at a small venue an...