Priscilla Queen of the Desert follows three drag performers, Tick (also known as Mitzi), Bernadette, and Adam (also known as Felicia), as they travel across the Australian outback in a battered bus, Priscilla, to perform a show in Alice Springs. Along the way, the trio encounter hostility, acceptance, humour and moments of genuine emotional connection,…

At its core, Operation Mincemeat tells one of the most extraordinary true stories of the Second World War: a wildly audacious British intelligence plan to deceive the Nazis using a stolen corpse carrying falsified documents. Set in 1943, with the Allies struggling to gain ground, the musical dramatises how a small, eccentric team within MI5 concocted a…

There is something immediately reassuring about an Agatha Christie adaptation arriving on stage. The promise is clear: intrigue, elegance, and a carefully constructed puzzle that will ultimately snap into place. The UK tour of Death on the Nile, now playing at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, delivers much of that promise, even if the journey there is…

There is an undeniable energy pulsing through Sunny Afternoon, the Olivier Award-winning jukebox musical built around the catalogue of The Kinks. Now touring the UK and stopping this week at the Regent Theatre, this production leans heavily into its greatest strength: the sheer musicality of its actor-muso cast. Sunny Afternoon charts the rise of The…

At the Regent Theatre this week, Mean Girls arrives with a slick, high-energy touring production that captures much of the wit and bite of Tina Fey’s original creation, even if some of its design choices fall noticeably short of its West End and Broadway counterparts. From the outset, this is a cast-led success. Emily Lane’s Cady Heron is a compelling…

Few musicals arrive with the weight of expectation that accompanies Miss Saigon. Since its premiere, the collaboration between Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil has become synonymous with large-scale musical storytelling, emotionally expansive, visually ambitious, and musically demanding. This latest UK tour, overseen by Cameron Mackintosh and directed by Jean-Pierre van der Spuy, embraces that legacy…

There are few British comedies as culturally embedded as Fawlty Towers. First broadcast in 1975, the original sitcom by John Cleese and Connie Booth  achieved something close to television immortality across just twelve episodes. Nearly fifty years later, Fawlty Towers – The Play, adapted by Cleese himself and now touring the UK following a successful West End run, arrives at the Regent…

The Regent Theatre’s pantomime tradition continues in triumphant style with Cinderella, a production that delivers everything audiences hope for at Christmas: warmth, spectacle, laughter, and just enough heart to remind us why this story has endured for centuries. Slickly staged, joyously performed and packed with personality, this is a panto that understands its audience and serves…

There are some shows that leave you grinning from the very first glitter-sprinkled moment to the final triumphant bow, and Stage Productions’ Nativity! at the Regent Theatre is unquestionably one of them. In a season filled with festive offerings, this amateur company delivers a production so full of heart, humour and high-energy joy that it…