Collette Guitart (Sophie Scholl) and L-R Danny Whelan (Christopher Probst), Owen Arkrow (Willi Graf), Mark Wilshire (Kurt Huber) and Tobias Turley (Hans Scholl). Photo Marc Brenner I knew absolutely nothing about The White Rose prior to this production. It is little known in the UK…
A packed celebrity audience were in attendance at the press opening of the Last Laugh. The production had done so well at the fringe and was spotted by Delfont Mackintosh and chosen to bring it to London audiences at Noel Coward theatre. With first class…
The Irish are great storytellers. So when Eugene O'Brien (with a name like that he has to be Irish) wrote a piece which was then handled and performed by multi-award-winning Irish theatre-makers Fishamble, magic really happened. After winning a multitude of awards, following a sell-out…
Wow! What a supercalifragilisticexpialidious production this is! After a lifetime of theatregoing I have never seen anything quite as magical. Paul Kieve and Jim Steinmeyer certainly deserve an accolade for creating such stunning illusions in a show which is spellbinding from beginning to end. You…
When the Lyceum created The Shakespeare Exchange with New York-based theatre company Theatre For a New Audience, following Zinnie Harris's highly lauded Macbeth (an undoing), I doubt even they knew the impact the company's Edinburgh debut would have on its audiences, and this reviewer in…
The ENO’s production of The Pirates of Penzance sails along smoothly in buoyant mood with an enthusiastic cast on board. The set design by Alison Chitty leads into the action framed through a porthole, an eye-catching gambit which is at its most effective in the…
Scottish playwright Duncan McClean incorporates lots of local references in this mad mash-up loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure. Bristol, where cabin boy Jim Hawkins sets sail to find buried treasure, becomes the thriving port of Leith, and his destination is not somewhere…
Once again the Festival Theatre is doing Scotland proud with the most spectacular pantomime in the land. I never fail to be amazed by its grandeur as each year the colourful sets and glittering costumes, all beautifully lit, get more and more sumptuous while at…
Tennessee Williams' classic play is as poignant today as it must have been when it was first produced on Broadway nearly 80 years ago. But even before a word is spoken, Emily James' stunning set and Jeanine Byrne's lighting immediately immerses us in the sultry…
Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, and Kenneth Branagh have all made their mark as Hercule Poirot. But the actor best known as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective is undoubtedly David Suchet. Until now. Suchet played Poirot for 13 series between 1989 and 2013, and even wrote a…