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…
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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
The Winter’s Tale ★★★★
The Winter’s Tale gets a unique staging, dividing the performance across two auditoria at Shakespeare’s Globe.
Blood Brothers (Touring) ★★★★★
Willy Russell’s musical theatre classic Blood Brothers is on tour four decades after it first played in London’s West End. The Recs asks if it’s still worth a visit?