It was in the second half when placenta flew into the air during the school nativity, which might have been before or after the red sock protest, that I wondered if I’d fallen into someone’s hallucination of their 80’s schooldays. Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is currently home to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 The Musical. Based on the first book book in the wildly popular series by Sue Townsend and originally published in 1982, the books centre ...

A fun show with very high production values, although its datedness does risk it becoming a bit of a museum piece.

Chicago is back, and we’re so excited here at Everything Theatre to not only be at the official launch party, but also to be able to offer you the chance to win a pair of tickets  to see the new production for yourself. To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is head on over to our Twitter feed and retweet the competition tweet that will be appearing alongside our live tweets from the launch ...

'The Grinning Man' performers Louis Maskell and Sanne Den Besten give us the low-down on this unique musical and its blend of past and present.

'Doodle - The Musical!' writer Jonathan Kydd tells us about bringing the World War II comedy musical to the Waterloo East Theatre.

Our Verdict: One of the great Victorian stories is finally enhanced by song in this entertaining, revised musical.

A poorly constructed show that fails to capitalise on the breadth of 1980s pop music hangs the cast out to dry with ineffective sound equipment.

A joyous, colourful and exuberant 60s ‘happening’. You will be humming the music to yourself for some time afterwards.

An irresistible, lung bursting blast of 1980s pop culture!

An excellent plot nearly gets buried under a bland song book, but powerful storytelling wins in the end.