Evening Standard - Theatre

Coming of age in the cold with The Fahrenheit Twins

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:28:34 GMT

As the dark nights beckon, it's oddly comforting to be transported to one of Earths coldest places with The Fahrenheit Twins.

Singing in the aisles: Asda worker's West End role

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:37:18 GMT

A singing supermarket worker has landed a role as jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald in a West End show

Cock is a prickly tale of sexual confusion

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:35 GMT

The title of Mike Bartlett's new play, Cock, may excite your inner punster, but the piece itself is far from being a trawl through tawdriness.

Alan Bennett is back in the habit with brilliant but flawed play

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:44:24 GMT

Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art is funny and sometimes brilliantly so, but strangely uninvolving.

Predictable twists in Public Property

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:16:41 GMT

Hanna Berrigans production is tidily spare, but while Public Property is enjoyable, its insights mostly feel familiar, not invigoratingly fresh.

Akram Khan's fractured return to Kathak

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:40:44 GMT

While Akram Khan's Kathak confirms his enduring virtuosity, it was the extract from his new work that reveals his innovative intelligence.

Drinkers treated to opera for £5

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:07:04 GMT

A pub theatre is offering opera for a fiver in an ambitious programme of grand-scale music in a bar-room setting.

God who moves in mysterious ways in The Making of Moo

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:59:34 GMT

The Orange Tree's revival of the bracing 1957 satire The Making of Moo, first performed at the Royal Court, is impressive.

A spot of teenage trouble at' mill in Mixed Up North

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:35:23 GMT

Robin Soans's sometimes bracing play Mixed Up North is based on the testimony of people involved in a youth club in Burnley.

Mel C Blood Brothers debut leaves us really, really wanting more

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:49 GMT

Blood Brothers has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C.

The 12 shows you must see in London this Christmas

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:22:07 GMT

From posh panto to burlesque, London is full of festive entertainment. Here are a dozen shows that should entice children and adults into the theatre.

Music and menace in The Kreutzer Sonata

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:46 GMT

The Kreutzer Sonata, published in 1889, doesn't fit the familiar image of Tolstoy. It is an unsettling vision of one mans misgivings about sex.

Origin of the Species needs time to evolve

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:48:42 GMT

Despite two lovely performances in Origin of the Species it's hard not to wish that Bryony Lavery had allowed her script to evolve a little more.

Darwin explored in Gilbert Is Dead

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:38:29 GMT

Robin French's script is not without its drawbacks but overall has the agreeable air of a little-visited outpost of a rambling museum in Gilbert Is Dead.

Slim pickings in The Rite Of Spring

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:38:29 GMT

Michael Keegan-Dolan is the latest to try his hand at The Rite Of Spring although he is one of the least successful.

Actors rebuild themselves in Architecting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:59:16 GMT

What do you get if you combine corsets, cabaret and abstract dance routines? Architecting would be the answer

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire - Mr & Mrs West End

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:41:00 GMT

Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have quietly become the biggest players in theatreland. Here they reveal how their passion for the stage has finally paid off

Festival operetta's not over until the cleaning ladies sing

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:28 GMT

Real-life Polish cleaning ladies get the chance to do more than shake a brush when they star in an international arts festival in Chelsea today.

Three-fold surprise from the Royal Ballet

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:52:15 GMT

The dancers are very good but everyone seems bemused by the choreography in the Royal Ballet's latest mixed bill.

Romany romance in Shraddha

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:52:15 GMT

Shraddha has energy and some moments of real poetry, and, although at times soft, it feels faithfully contemporary.

Omar falls flat on his face in The Great Extension

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:24:59 GMT

The Great Extension is lacking the strength and motive that is needed for farce.

Timing issue for This Much is True

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:35 GMT

It's bad timing for This Much is True that it should come so soon after Kieron Barrys impressively taut Stockwell.

Rambert is treading softly but surely

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:23:35 GMT

A former Rambert dancer, has revved things up with new work, new dancers and newly commissioned music.

Fundamental fun in What Fatima Did

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:58:34 GMT

Atiha Sen Gupta's first full-length play - What Fatima Did - is a brave and timely exploration of the faultlines in our multicultural society.

Have-a-go hero in Seize The Day

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:16:22 GMT

in Seize the Day Kwame Kwei-Armah turns his scrutiny to the question of race within the political sphere itself.