JB Priestly’s much beloved, taught-in-schools play, An Inspector Calls, is a perennial favourite with British theatre-goers. As the Birling household celebrate their daughter’s engagement to a very eligible young man, the mysterious Inspector Goole arrives...
“Juke-box musicals”, which essentially use existing songs as their musical score, may strike you as a relatively modern theatrical phenomena – think Mamma Mia! or We Will Rock You, which premiered in 1999 and 2002 respectively – but the idea goes back much further...
Peter Pan Goes Wrong invites you to watch the latest show by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a production of Peter Pan which starts badly and ends in a medley of perfectly orchestrated chaos...
Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous times since its publication in 1983 –the 2012 Hammer Films co-production, starring Daniel Radcliffe, even inspiring a somewhat maligned sequel...