3 d. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Fiddler On The Roof's first night at the Barbican Theatre: Topol made the film sing, but this Fiddler dances to its own tune

The show is surely still best known from the 1971 film starring Chaim Topol as the hard-working, God-fearing milkman Tevye with five feisty daughters to marry off.

Culture

8 d. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Marriage Material at the Lytic Theatre: Catherine Cookson meets The Kumars in a sweet Sikh sitcom

PATRICK MARMION: For sheer intensity of generational bonds, they are hard to beat - as we discover all over again in the new stage adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's epic Marriage Material.

Society

2 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Minerva Theatre, Chichester: A tearjerking musical trek...go armed with Kleenex

Rachel Joyce's highly emotional 2012 best-seller which has now become a musical about Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage to make up with an old friend dying in a hospice 500 miles away.

Events

3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Deep Blue Sea at the Theatre Royal: Tale of romantic regret hidden by veil of primness

Was there ever a play that craved intimacy like Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea?

Politics

3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews The Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward Theatre: A head

A Sixties spy spoof that is like Johnny English meets Basil Fawlty in a Piccadilly hotel. It's bigger, better and more brilliantly bungling than ever.

Events

4 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Here We Are at the National Theatre: Top

The National Theatre has really pushed the boat out for the last show by the late god of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim, but not even they can make this mongrel sing.

Politics