The lighting designed by Jon Clark deserves a special mention. Especially lovely to notice are the edgings of light drawn ...

This was a Christmas concert as Christmas concerts should be – a broad mix of contemporary and classical pieces, delivered ...

A living room ambience is successfully created in the ‘common room’ space at the Omnibus Theatre – if my memory serves me ...

As ever, there were shows that were surprisingly good, and better than I expected them to be. An early show, in January, that fits that bill was Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical at The Other ...

As you make your way along Penge High Street, the Christmas lights strung across the road say “Merry Pengemas”, for the southeast London suburb which styles itself as the cultural hub of the ...

Triumph over adversity is hardly groundbreaking theatre – here, Cara Roberts’ unnamed character is in a single-parent household after his parents split up. The memories of his father, who ...

Dodie Smith (author of Dear Octopus, recently revived at the Royal National Theatre) wrote the children’s novel on which it is based in 1956, when it was serialised in Women’s Day magazine as ...

There was little, if anything, that Rodney Black (Ben Willows) said in his stand-up sets that hasn’t, one way or another, been heard before. Perhaps it’s something to do with living and ...