Consider yourself consummately entertained if you get a ticket for this exceptional revival of Lionel Bart’s show. Distilled from Dickens and filtered through a mid-20th century sense of the ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

This week I headed to the Gielgud Theatre at the West End, where I found myself reviewing the situation as Oliver! returned to London’s West End once again. Based on the 1836 novel written by ...

This week I headed to the Gielgud Theatre at the West End, where I found myself reviewing the situation as Oliver! returned to London’s West End once again. Based on the 1836 novel written by Charles ...

Reality doesn’t really belong in Lionel Bart’s joyous musical staging of Dickens’s Oliver Twist. Far from being a work of social realism, his show is a glorious escape from the grim reality ...

It was also the first major show to employ future impresario Cameron Mackintosh, who owns The Gielgud, and has done more than most to ensure the capital's theatreland thrives. Bourne, who directs ...

Taking advantage of the Gielgud’s revolve, he has plotted a flowing choreography for the elements onstage, dominated by a large metal bridge and walkway, with balconies on each wing. In charge of the ...

The result fits more snugly into the Gielgud than it did on the Chichester thrust-stage last summer. The bawling infant hero is deposited outside the work-house gates at the start, then the scene ...