Six-year-old pirates, squaws with attitude, and a lippy Captain Hook-sounds like a recipe for disaster? Jacquie Kirke, of actfirst, successfully brings together her mixed-age classes in the delightful Captain Hook's Revenge, by Richard Coleman.
An Inspector Calls is often portrayed merely as socialist polemic but Richmond Shakespeare Society's current production takes a deeper look at J.B Priestley's best-known play.
That superb musical within a musical 42nd Street, which was first created as a film in 1933 and became a hit stage show in 1980, is still a great experience more than 70 years on, and wowed a packed Wimbledon Theatre this week, writes Sarah Roach.
The first of John Mortimer's stories in his comedy double-bill Legal Fictions at Richmond Theatre this week was full of irony and humour, but the second fell short of the mark.
Ardal O'Hanlon deserves full credit for going on stage with no support - apart from a microphone -and entertaining a packed Richmond Theatre with a string of tall stories for almost two hours last Sunday, writes Tony Flood.
Little-known Australian actress Kate Atkinson came near to stealing the show from screen legend Tom Conti in Romantic Comedy, at Richmond Theatre this week.
