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Solo Performers Shining at the In The Bricks Festival

For theatergoers of a certain age, Jerome at Playwrights Horizons can feel uncanny at times.

Love and Dance Unfold in ‘The Circuit: An Immersive Silent Disco Ballet’

Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium isn’t one of those big Broadway productions that uses a heralded

Big Talent in a ‘Small’ Body

Renowned playwright Peter Shaffer engages funny mode in this revival of Black Comedy at the delightfully intimate Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.

Finding Harmony in Fragments in ‘||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||’

Coming to Terms with the Mysteries of Grief in ‘Well, I’ll Let You Go’

'Dark of the Moon' portrays the clash of two dynamically-polarised worlds in an unlikely new musical

Lovable underdog takes on the corporate fat cats in Rob Madge and Pippa Cleary’s new biographical musical 'Bank of Dave'

‘The Lost Boys’: The Undead, Found and Thriving

These ’Beaches’ Need New Lifeguards

'Schmigadoon!’: The Town Where You Swoon in Tune

Broadway is Burning in ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’

Three-time Tony Award-winning puppet-fuelled parody ‘Avenue Q’ returns to the West End in all its riotous glory.

Celebrating 10 years of Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson's 'Waitress The Musical', Carrie Hope Fletcher takes the lead in an extensive UK tour.

Scottish Ballet horours the legacy of Gene Kelly in 'Starstruck'

Former model, turned writer, actress and stand-up tours her latest show, 'The Afters'

Northern Ballet bring to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister – with the world premiere of 'Gentleman Jack'.

By turns light and frothy, then dark and grotesque, 'The Red Shoes' is a visual treat and a thought-provoking tale of love and artistic compulsion.

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s rarely performed and disturbingly timely tale, 'Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny' gets an epic ENO reworking.

Derren Brown brings his unique brand of mentalism back to the stage in his latest, unflinching production 'Only Human Live'

Edinburgh Fringe 2026

8 May 20268 May 2026

The Recs' editor, Steve Coats-Dennis, casts a gimlet eye over the latest shows announced for the Edinburgh Fringe and chooses some gems

Broadway and Off Broadway News

5 May 20265 May 2026

The Tony Award nominations for 2026 have been announced today

Broadway and Off Broadway News

5 May 20265 May 2026

The Recs' editor and chief New York critic discuss the potential Tony Award nominations for 2026