including Simon Lipkin (Guys and Dolls, The Beaker Girls) as Fagin and Aaron Sidwell (EastEnders, Wicked) as Bill Sikes. Read our review of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, directed by Matthew Bourne, now in ...

While the original Islington theater retains its grandeur, it underwent major modernization in 1998 to move with the times (adding the 180-seater Lilian Baylis Studio in the process), and the new ...

Consider yourself consummately entertained if you get a ticket for this exceptional revival of Lionel Bart’s show. Distilled from Dickens and filtered through a mid-20th century sense of the ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

As Princess Elizabeth, the late Queen was herself the very first female royal to join the army as a full-time, active member: she signed up to the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945, during World ...

This week I headed to the Gielgud Theatre at the West End, where I found myself reviewing the situation as Oliver! returned to London’s West End once again. Based on the 1836 novel written by ...

This week I headed to the Gielgud Theatre at the West End, where I found myself reviewing the situation as Oliver! returned to London’s West End once again. Based on the 1836 novel written by Charles ...

It was also the first major show to employ future impresario Cameron Mackintosh, who owns The Gielgud, and has done more than most to ensure the capital's theatreland thrives. Bourne, who directs ...