Composer Dai Fujikura looks back at his past works and their global influence ahead of an upcoming concert of his work at Wigmore Hall.

Writer/performer Ian Bonar shares the real-life inspiration behind 'Be Prepared' at the VAULT Festival and the 'treacle' comedy at the show's core.

Laurane Marchive of Chivaree Circus shares how the company brought its immersive, all-female production of 'Becoming Shades' to the Vault Festival.

In this guest blog, producer Rebekah Harvey of 'The Crystal Egg Live' talks about how to make theatre and literature relevant in a world dominated by film and television.

Polly picks five shows to book now for 2018

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest theatrical venture, the transforming of the St James Theatre in Victoria into The Other Palace, this year opened its doors with the gin-soaked jazz age musical The Wild Party. It featured a cast of 15, cavorting around an exuberant three-storey set that also housed the eight-piece orchestra. It was, by any standards, a spectacular production. Yet for all the spectacle, glamour and glitter, it was one of the dullest shows of the year. With tunes that you forget even while you’re ...

Brian picks runs down his pick of the year and awards the inaugural Reggies.

In late November I saw the world premiere of the contemporary opera Marnie at the London Coliseum. In addition to the dozen or so principals, I counted a chorus of 37 who appeared variously as office workers, funeral mourners and party guests. Plus 10 dancers who doubled as scene shifters, and four additional Marnie alter egos. That made an on-stage cast of over 60; add in the orchestra, the lighting engineers and the rest of the backstage crew, and it meant that well over 100 ...

Rob Warren picks his top shows of 2017

Clare Annamalai picks her top shows of 2017.