Betty Blue Eyes – ★★★
Betty Blue Eyes, Stile and Drewe’s 2011 terribly British musical comedy, gets its first London revival at the Union Theatre
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For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy – ★★★★★
Ryan Calais Cameron’s bold and unflinching exploration of race and masculinity transfers to the West End
Hay Fever – ★★
Hay Fever, Noël Coward’s first hit play, is revived at The Mill at Sonning, but The Recs finds much to sniff at…
Titanic The Musical – ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Titanic The Musical’s 10th Anniversary UK and Ireland tour offers a gripping portrait of the doomed ship
BLACK SUPERHERO – ★★★
BLACK SUPERHERO, the debut play by Danny Lee Wynter, explores issues of race, queerness and identity politics.
Firedance – ★★★★
Firedance sees Strictly favourites Gorka Márquez and Karen Hauer take to the stage for their own dance show
Scottish Ballet’s Coppélia ★★★★★
Scottish Ballet offers an eye-popping, contemporary take on Coppélia that explores the implications of Artificial Intelligence.
Oklahoma! ★★★★★
Oklahoma! is given a radical reworking that reveals many untapped dramatic riches in the 80-year-old musical.
Merboy ★★★★
Merboy offers a poetic, queer re-imagining of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale to explore the complexities of the gay scene