With public performances outlawed, Greenwich Theatre has launched an inspired programme of free online opportunities for artists for find a creative outlet a...

Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases still in common use...

It’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have spelled disaster. But ...

Splendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously using Christopher Ma...

Our modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so steadfastly Victorian. An...

One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart adult-oriented jokes....

There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who fought and died in th...

Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast moving between those ...

If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve seen on a stage in a...

Anton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even truer in his short stor...

One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is playing at Greenwich ...

This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered something for everyone. And ...

You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of John the Baptist. G...

I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead, finally laid to rest by the definitive interpretations of Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Benedict Cumberbatch. But I wa...

We Brits love to put our sporting heroes on pedestals – but we also love to see them fall off. And few have done it quite so spectacularly as England cricket...

Britain today finds itself horribly divided over Brexit. A century ago the country was also horribly divided - but the reason then was class. The yawning gul...

The tragedy of Gaza and the West Bank is one of the most contentious issues of our times, which makes it an ideal subject for dramatists. The problem for wri...

What possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course – is Andrew Pollard’s...

There was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of laughter provoked by the p...

There weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being tremendous fun which more...