Three Men in a Boat continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 10 October 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Al Smith’s lighthearted adaptation is a riot of music hall styling, strong physical comedy and broad satire.
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Cinderella – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Cinderella continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 4 January 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It all adds up to a marvellous addition to the Christmas canon.
Marie & Rosetta – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Marie & Rosetta continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 24 May 2025. The production also plays the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton from 27-31 May and Chichester Festival Theatre from 25 June-26 July 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★
Peter Pan – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Peter Pan continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 7 January 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
The Caucasian Chalk Circle – Rose Theatre, Kingston
The Caucasian Chalk Circle continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 22 October 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Full cast for the Rose Theatre’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Rose Theatre’s artistic director Christopher Haydon has announced the full cast for his new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle. As previously announced Carrie Hope Fletcher (Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, Heathers, Theatre Royal Haymarket) will play Grusha Vashnadze. She will be joined by Jonathan Slinger (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, West End, […]
Beauty and The Beast – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Beauty and The Beast continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 2 January 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ To craft and create a show that holds equal appeal to every age from eight to 80 requires a special talent and Ciaran McConville’s re-imagining of this famed 18th century French folk […]
Cast announced for Rose Theatre’s Beauty and the Beast
2020 graduate Amelia Kinu Muus will be the Beauty to Stanton Wright’s Beast in a new version of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames this Christmas. Central School of Speech and Drama graduate Muus whose professional credits in her native Austria include roles in productions […]
First live stage production of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Smeds And The Smoos
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s best-selling picture book The Smeds And The Smoos will be brought to life on stage in a major new touring production created by award-winning theatre company Tall Stories. Developed and previewed at Tall Stories’ new studio space at Central Library in Islington, the fifth Tall Stories’ theatre production to be […]
Hansel and Gretel – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Hansel and Gretel continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 6 January 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Forget all those predictable pantos, especially those with smutty innuendo that you just hope and pray your children/grandchildren won’t understand and get yourselves down to Kingston for this brilliant adaptation of one of […]
A Winter’s Tale – Youth Music Theatre UK – Rose Theatre, Kingston
A Winter’s Tale was performed by Youth Music Theatre UK at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. There’s a lot of valiant hard work in this show, directed by Bronagh Lagan with Greg Arrowsmith as MD, but the storytelling is far from clear (changing some actors in roles between acts doesn’t help) and in places it feels […]
Alice in Winterland – Rose Theatre, Kingston
Alice in Winterland continues at the Rose Theatre, Kingston until 7 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ “A work of genius” pronounced my grown-up daughter after the first act of the Rose Theatre’s Christmas show. That might be over-egging it a bit, but it certainly held its predominantly young audience enthralled […]
Bring On the Bollywood – Rose Theatre, Kingston, and Touring
Bring On the Bollywood at was reviewed at the Rose Theatre, Kingston, and continues touring until 26 August. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Sorry, nobody loves a good curry more but Bring On the Bollywood isn’t spicy enough for my taste – more korma than madras, you could say. Fair enough, the costumes […]
Interview – composer Stephen Warbeck on Headlong Theatre’s Junkyard and the thrill of being crazy with music
Multi award-winning British composer STEPHEN WARBECK is probably best known for his scores for major movies including Shakespeare in Love (for which he won an Oscar for Best Original Score), Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Mrs Brown and Billy Elliot. His work on stage includes This House (National Theatre and Garrick) and The Plough and the Stars and Wolf Hall/Bring […]
Junkyard – Bristol Old Vic and Touring
Junkyard continues at Bristol Old Vic until 18 March before touring to Theatr Clwyd in Mold and the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Headlong is breaking down our carefully built cynicism blow by beautiful blow. And we love the theatre company for it. There’s a playground coming to life […]
Interview – Roxanne Palmer shares the magic of Mr Popper’s Penguins
Having just enjoyed a Christmas season at the Lowry Salford, the world premiere of brand new family musical Mr Popper’s Penguins, directed by Emma Earle, completes its tour of the country with a run at Rose Theatre Kingston from Thursday 14 January to Sunday 17 January. Painter and decorator by day, Mr Popper dreams of Antarctic adventures. He is astounded when one day […]
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Rose Theatre, Kingston
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe continues at Rose Theatre, Kingston until 4 January 2015. It’s stretching it to call the Rose’s Christmas offering a musical, but there’s no doubt that Eamonn O’Dwyer’s sumptuous score adds considerably to the charm of CS Lewis’ enduring classic that first saw light of day 64 years ago […]
