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Mean Girls, Wales Millennium Centre

Converting a cult film to the stage is always a juggling act. By its very nature, it’s trading on nostalgia...

Matthew Bourne has built a reputation on taking well-loved stories and reimagining them for the stage, and his version of...

Wales Millennium Centre Before the lights even dim, the audience is politely asked not to sing along until the encore....

Swansea Grand Theatre In 2011, when Michael Sheen emerged from the fish-freezing waters of Aberavon at the start of National...

Adapting Inspector Morse for the stage was always going to be a high-wire act. John Thaw’s portrayal is not merely...

Chapter Arts Centre Even if, like this reviewer, you’ve never actually watched the television play Abigail’s Party in its entirety,...

Wales Millennium Centre When I first heard a new play called Single White Female – based on the 1992 Bridget...

There is always a certain power in a story that proves itself capable of becoming a generational landmark, and one...

**** Try explaining panto to someone who is not familiar with this very traditional festive phenomenon! If you ask AI...

Pantomime has a curious habit of sidelining its own title characters. Despite their names being splashed across posters and tickets,...