WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Bridge Theatre
WHEN: 27/1, press night 30/1, runs to 15/4/18
This is the show that should have been the one to launch Nick Hytner’s Bridge Theatre.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Harold Pinter Theatre
WHEN: 19/1, runs to 14/4/18
More than 60 years after the curtain came down on Harold Pinter’s second play in London after dire reviews and just eight performances, it is revived again.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs
WHEN: 17/1, runs to 20/1/18
PR turned playwright Anoushka Warden was working in the Royal Court press office when her 75-minute monologue came to the venue’s attention.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Wyndhams Theatre
WHEN: 15/1, runs to 20/1/18
Treading the boards at a West End theatre is not where we would expect to find one of our favourite stand-ups.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 12/1
One Voice is a series of monologues commissioned by the Old Vic which consists of spoken word pieces of about 15 minutes long by renowned actors without scenery.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Vaudeville Theatre
WHEN: 12/1, press night 22/1, runs to 7/4
Director Kathy Burke has written a song called Keep Your Hands Off which is sung by Jennifer Saunders (pictured centre above), accompanied by members of the cast on instruments, as a distraction as the scenery is shifted during this comedy’s second act.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: Southampton Mayflower
WHEN: 31/12, runs to 7/1/18
Our review of Strictly Come Dancing‘s Craig Revel Horwood’s fabulous turn in Annie last year was the fourth most read content on this site in 2017.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Victoria Palace
WHEN: 26/12, booking to 28/7/18
The good news is that the touts appear to have been beaten – and the bad is that it’s the most uncomfortable wait to enter a theatre we can ever remember.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: London Palladium
WHEN: 10/12 (matinee), press night 13/12, runs to 14/1/18
‘I woke up this morning and there was eight inches outside my back door,’ reflects Julian Clary as Spirit Of The Bells in the Palladium’s annual pantomime extravaganza after an especially snowy morning.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Old Vic
WHEN: 28/11, press night 29/11, runs to 20/1/18
Providing family entertainment with a message has been the aim of Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus since succeeding Kevin Spacey in 2015.
