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The Jermyn Street theatre respond to the news that writer Ibrahima Balde has been denied a UK visa to attend the premiere of a play based on his life

Ibrahima Balde lives in Madrid and was due to come to London for four days, where he was due to stay with the Olivier award-winning playwright who adapted his book,…

But back to the plot. Rattigan based The Deep Blue Sea on his secret relationship with actor Kenny Morgan who left him for another man and then gassed himself. When…

Dillon is Margaret, a Harvard shrink who’s written a bestseller about compulsive behaviour. When a rich-kid client starts waving a gun around, claiming to have incurred a vast debt at…

“This thing of DEI has gone too far, the successful rebranding of woke and reframing it as, ‘thank God we can dial that back’… I’ve got no time for it,”…

Sabrage is the cabaret and circus revue show that is building a reputation as one of the most fun nights out in the city, and no wonder with dedicated performers…

Beverley Knight and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu shine as the gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharp and her younger sister, but are undermined by the script

The party is rounded out by Chumisa Dornford-May as Marianne’s kid sister Fritz, a champagne radical who’s working to destroy capitalism with PRADA (the People’s Revolution Anti-Domination Army — ho…

It is another career swerve for the versatile 71-year-old comic and actor. Rhys Jones was famous for being half of a double act with Mel Smith, who died, aged 60,…

The apron stage is hung with black jackets, dotted with amps and lined with black sound insulation. Behind, the six instrumentalists are isolated in glass-fronted studios at the base of…