7 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

1 week 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

4 w. ago The Comedy About Spies at Noel Coward Theatre review: bungling, buffoonish hilarity

Finally, Mischief may have found a match for their smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong

Events

4 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