The Glass Menagerie review: An exquisite production conveying authentic emotion | Theatre | Entertainment

Rose Theatre, Kingston until May 4 (UK Tour until June 1) Tickets: 020 8174 0090 (stageberry.com) Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical play requires delicate handling. Experimental in form, with a narrator addressing the audience as well as engaging in the unfolding drama, it is as emotionally fragile as the glass animals collected by the young, disabled Laura … Read more

‘I went to The London Cabaret Club and I have mixed feelings’

Walking up to Victoria House at Bloomsbury Square in glitzy open-toed heels and a wrapped polka-dot white and navy knee-length dress, I am welcomed by a grand, beautiful neoclassical building. On our way into the venue, we are given our tickets in the form of an aeroplane ticket from London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare International … Read more

Review: Gloriously ‘Grimm’ Christmas productions at Covent Garden | Theatre | Entertainment

Fairy tales by the brothers Grimm inspire hugely enjoyable Christmas productions at both Covent Garden theatres, and there is nothing grim about them, apart from the usual grisly ends of the wolf in Red Riding Hood and the cannibalistic witch in Hansel and Gretel. Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy, at the Linbury Theatre, downstairs from the … Read more