As past of our website development we are starting to digitise our magazine archive. Due to repeated requests we are in the process of starting with our large collection of Play and Musical Produced articles which we hope might be of help.
If the show you require is not yet showing please keep checking as more and more links will be added in the coming months.
Special thanks to the many, many people who took time to write for this series of articles over the years. Your time and effort is truly appreciated.
Abelard and Heloise March 1974
Abigails Party August 2008
Abigail’s Party May 1982
Absurd Person Singular January 1978
Accidental Death of An Anarchist Feb 94
The Accrington Pals March 1998
Acorn Antiques The Musical August 2011
Agnes of God December 1986
Alarms & Excursions September 2001
Albert Make Us Laugh Sept 2007
All for Mary January 1958
All In Good Time February 1969
All Things Bright and Beautiful Nov 1966
Allo Allo February 1994
All’s Well That Ends Well March 1997
Alone It Stands July 2007
Alphabetical Order November 1978
Amadeus March 1986
Amber for Anna October 1966
The Amorous Prawn April 1963
An Audience With Murder April 2009
Anastasia September 1956
And A Nightingale Sang October 1982
Animal Farm June 1994
Annie Get Your Gun September 2008
The Anniversary September 1968
The Arcadians November 1995
Arsenic and Old Lace October 1997
As Long As They’re Happy March 195
The Aspern Papers November 1989
Assassins July 1994
The Atheist’s Tragedy April 2002
Babes In The Wood February 1995
Background May 1952
The Bad Samaritan April 1957
The Baker’s Wife December 1996
Bar Talk October 2008
Barefoot in the Park November 1968
Barefoot In The Park September 2006
Beauty and the Beast December 1991
Beauty & the Beast (Disney) January 2011
Becket May 1966
The Bed Before Yesterday April 1980
Bed of Roses September 1951
Bedroom Farce May 1981
Bell Book and Candle June 1958
The Bells of Hell May 1980
Below Stairs May 2005
Bequest to the Nation September 1972
Beside the Seaside March 1957
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
March 1994
Beyond Reasonable Doubt Mar 91/Feb 92
Billy Liar Feb 63
Birds on the Wing July 1972
The Birthday Party July 1966
Black Chiffon January 1953
Black Comedy October 1971
Bless This House December 1955
Blinded By The Sun August 2002
Blithe Spirit Sept 47/May 01
Blitz October 1991
Blood Brothers September 1986
Blood Money October 2005
Blue Remembered Hills February 1990
Boeing - Boeing June 1969
The Bolt Hole September 1974
Bonaventure October 1951
Book of the Month April 1956
Born in the Gardens January 1983
Born Yesterday December 2004
A Boston Story August 1970
Both Ends Meet January 1957
Bouncers October 2010
The Boy Friend October 1962
Brassed Off December 2005
Break Out September 1963
Breaking the Silence May 1988
Breath of Spring June 1960
The Bride & the Bachelor April 1960
The Brides of March January 1964
Brighton Beach Memoirs February 1991
Brush With a Body September 1964
Building Blocks September 1997
Burning Glass February 1957
Busybody March 1967
But Once A Year October 1950
Butley June 1976
Butterflies Are Free January 2009
Cabaret August 1990
Calamity Jane June 1993
Call Me Madam June 1996
Camelot November 1990
Candide April 1992
Candied Peel May 1948
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay January 1986
Canterbury Tales Jul/Aug 80
Captain Carvallo February 1952
The Caretaker January 1963
Carousel March 2000
Cat Among the Pigeons April 2003
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof November 2007
Cat On the Fiddle February 1965
Cat’s Cradle May 1983
Caught In The Net May 2006
Caught Napping February 1961
Cause Celebre Jul/Aug 79
Celebration July 1962
The Cemetary Club April 1996
The Chalk Garden May 1960
Charley’s Aunt August 1993
Chess Aug 94/Aug 99
Chicken Soup With Barley October 1961
Children of a Lesser God April 1987
The Chiltern Hundreds June 1950
A Chorus of Disapproval June 1989
A Christmas Carol (The Musical) June 02
Christmas Rose October 1958
City of Angels March 1996
Clara November 2001
Clean Kill November 1961
Close the Coalhouse Door April 1970
Coarse Acting Jul/Aug 78, Dec 80
A Coat of Varnish May 1985
Collapse of a Stout Party August 1968
Come As You Are October 1972
Come Back To the Five and Dime Oct 88
Come Blow Your Horn March 1990
Come Into The Garden Maud May 1968
Come Laughing Home November 1967
Come On Jeeves June 2008
Communicating Doors March 2001
Conduct Unbecoming December 1973
Confusions September 1979
Corpse April 1988
Coward, Noel November 1965
Cowardy Custard April 1982
Cradle of Willow December 1957
The Cripple of Inishmaan June 2001
Crown Matrimonial June 1975
The Crucible Jul 64/Jul 87
The Crucible January 2006
A Cupful of Sugar February 2000
The Curious Savage September 1961
Curtain Up On Murder May 2003
Daisy Pulls It Off October 1989
The Dame of Sark April 1977
Dancing at Lughnasa July 1995
Dangerous Obsession December 1994
Darling I’m Home September 1977
Daughter of the Left Hand May 1973
David Copperfield March 2008
The Day After the Fair May 1975
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Feb 05
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Oct 69
Dead of Night March 2006
Dead on Nine September 1957
Dead White Males February 2004
Deadlock December 1992
Deadly Nightcap March 1993
Dear Charles December 1956
Dear Delinquent December 1959
Death and the Maiden March 1996
Death By Fatal Murder Dec 06
Deathtrap October 1984
Deathtrap April 2007
The Deep Blue Sea January 1955
Delicate Business February 1972
Desire Under the Elms October 1992
The Devil at Midnight November 2002
Dick Whittington (Panto) February 2011
A Different Way Home Sept 2002
Dial M For Murder January 1956
The Diary of Anne Frank Nov 59
Dick Barton Special Agent June 2005
Dickens Christmas Carol Show
December 1981
Doctor in the House August 1959
Donkey’s Years September 1982
Don’t Dress for Dinner February 1999
Don’t Mess With The Curtains Jan 2008
Don’t Utter a Note June 1968
Down Came a Blackbird Sept 1955
The Dresser June 1983
Dry Rot June 1959
Dusa, Fish Stas and Vi February 1980
Educating Rita January 1985
Eh? December 1967
Eighty Four (84) Charing Cross Road Jul/
Aug 85
The Eleventh Commandment Nov 1977
The Enquiry March 1972
Epitaph for George Dillon March 1960
Equus June 1979
Escapade April 1955
An Evening with Gary Lineker Jan 1995
Exorcism January 1993
Expresso Bongo February 1962
Fame November 2006
The Family Dance June 1978
The Fantastiks October 1996
Farndale Ladies Jul/Aug 86
Festen May 2008
A Few Good Men April 2000
Fiddler on the Roof July 2005
A Fiddler on the Roof January 1993
The Fifteen Streets March 1992
Filumena March 1954
First Gentleman December 1949
Five Finger Exercise March 1962
Flare Path May 1995
A Flea in Her Ear May 1971
TheFlip Side March 1971
Flowering Cherry January 1961
Flowers for the Living December 1950
Fools August 1988
Fools Rush In November 1949
For Better or For Worse July 1955
Forget Me Not Lane February 1974
The Forsyte Saga February 1993
Forty Years On December 1972
Friends and Neighbours October 1960
Frost at Midnight December 1962
Full Treatment February 1968
Funny Money November 1997
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To
The Forum March 1993
Fur Coat and No Knickers June 1990
Gathering Storm September 1949
Gazebo July 1963
The Geese are Getting Fat June 1962
The Gentle Hook March 1978
Getting On December 1976
Gioconda Smile September 1950
Girls’ Night Out December 1999
Glad Tidings October 1953
Gleam September 1948
Go Back For Murder August 1962
Go Bang Your Tambourine June 1972
Godspell December 2005
Godspell February 1982
Good Morning, Bill October 2003
Goodnight Mrs Puffin June 1965
Gothic Plays July 1973
The Government Inspector April 1974
The Grass Is Greener June 1961
The Guilty Party January 1965
Guinea Pig February 1950
Gypsy January 2001
Habeas Corpus November 1976
Hadrian The Seventh February 1975
Half a Sixpence October 1997
Halfway Up The Tree September 1970
Hamlet March 1990
Hamp September 1966
The Happiest Days of Your Life Dec 51
The Happy Apple December 1971
Happy Family March 1952
Happy Home December 1965
Happy Marriage May 1959
Happy Prisoner May 1955
Hard Times October 1996
Hard Times April 2006
Harvey December 1953
Harvey March 2007
Haul for the Shore January 1966
Hay Fever November 1965
Heaven and Charing Cross Dec 47
The Heiress Oct 52/Sept 98
Hello Dolly April 2000
Henceforward April 1992
Here We Come Gathering February 1954
The Hired Man May 1987
His Excellency December 1952
HMS Pinafore September 2000
The Hollow January 1954
The Holly and the Ivy November 1952
Hollywood Heaven January 2004
The Homecoming July 1967
Honk! June 2004
The Hostage May 1964
Hot Summer Night September 1960
Hotel in Amsterdam May 1974
Hotel Paradiso January 1972
House and Garden March 2005
House by the Lake April 1959
House Guest April 1985
The House of Bernarda Alba Sept 1987
The House on the Bridge July 1997
How Are You Johnnie August 1965
How Green Was My Valley October 1994
How the Other Half Loves Dec 1974
Humble Boy June 2007
I Thought I Heard A Rustling Mar 1994
An Ideal Husband October 1987
I’ll Get My Man September 1969
I’m Talking About Jerusalem Oct 1961
The Imaginary Invalid May 2000
The Importance of Being Earnest July 1990
In Praise of Love September 1980
Inherit the Wind May 1962
An Inspector Calls Aug 50/Jun 98
Into the Woods Jul 95/May 98
Irma la Douce October 1989
It Runs in the Family February 1996
It’s Never Too Late November 1956
Jack The Ripper October 1978
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell August 2006
Jesus Christ Superstar June 2010
Job For the Boy October 1955
Joking Apart February 1983
Joy Ride January 1973
Just Between Ourselves April 1991
Justice is A Woman January 1971
Katherine Howard November 2001
The Killing of Sister George April 1968
Kindertransport October 2000
King’s Rhapsody April 1991
Kiss Me, Kate September 1995
Kiss of the Spiderwoman Nov 1999
Kiss Of the Spiderwoman (Musical) March 2011
Lady from Edinburgh June 1949
The Lady’s Not For Burning March 1951
Lark Rise November 1980
Last of the Red Hot Lovers January 1989
The Last Word August 1961
The Late Edwina Black April 1952
The Late Mrs Early February 1978
A Laughing Matter April 2005
Les Liaisons Dangereuses Dec 2008
Les Liaisons Dangereuses August 1995
Les Miserables - School Ed August 2005
Let Sleeping Wives Lie June 1971
Let’s All Go Down the Strand Oct 1970
Let’s Get A Divorce May 1969
A Letter From the General Nov 1963
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Oct 1990
The Lights are Warm and Coloured
Jul/Aug 82
Lilac Time July 1991
The Linden Tree March 1950
The Lion in Winter March 1988
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe July 1989
The Listening Hills January 1951
Little Boxes February 1970
A Little Night Music September 1998
Little Shop of Horrors January 1989
Live and Let Love July 1957
Living Together February 2007
Lloyd George Knew My Father Dec 1975
Local Affairs October 1985
Lock Up Your Daughters November 1970
Long Sunset December 1963
The Long, The Short and the Tall July 60
Look Back in Anger September 1959
Loot December 1970
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime August 1973
Losers May 1996
Love Match March 1958
Lucky Strike May 1958
Lunatic View July 1968
Luthur September 1967
Macbeth August 1991
A Mad World, My Masters July 2005
The Madness of George III January 1996
The Maintenance Man May 1993
Make Way For Lucia August 2003
A Man For All Seasons June 1963
The Man in the Glass Booth July 1970
The Man In The Iron Mask Feb 2006
The Man Most Likely To... Nov 1972
Man of Mode April 1989
Man of the Moment August 1994
Mary, Mary June 1966
The Matchmaker April 1993
Matilda Shouted Fire March 1963
Meet Me By the Moonlight July 1961
The Memory of Water February 2002
Middle Age Spread June 1985
A Midsummer Night’s Dream March 1992
The Militants April 1971
The Miracle Worker October 1963
Miranda January 1949
Mist Over the Mistletoe October 1954
Mixed Doubles November 1981
Move Over Mrs Markham February 1977
Mr Cinders February 1998
Much Ado About Nothing October 1991
Murder at the Vicarage Sept 1952
Murder in Company November 1974
Murder in the Cathedral February 1997
Murder is Announced September 2005
A Murder is Announced March 1995
A Murder Is Announced May 2010
Murder Mistaken November 1954
Murder on Arrival April 1961
Music Hall (Edwardian) August 1974
Music Hall (Victorian) November 1969
Music Man June 1991
My Brilliant Divorce December 2007
My Own, My Native Land August 1975
My Three Angels August 1957
The Mystery of Edwin Drood July 2001
Neville’s Island December 1997
Night Maxie Tortellini Hit Big Lola.. Dec 89
No Sex Please, We’re British Aug 1990
The Noble Spaniard September 1954
Noises Off November 1988
Norman December 1964
The Norman Conquests Sept 1978
Not Now Darling May 1972
Nunsense August 2006
Off the Hook April 1972
Off the Rails July 1977
Oh Kay July 2007
Oh What a Lovely War February 1967
The Old Country June 1981
On Golden Pond April 1986
On Monday Next April 1951
On the Razzle Jul/Aug 84
On Your Honour August 2010
Once a Catholic Jul/Aug 83
Once in a Lifetime August 1991
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
November 2005
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
December 1988
One O’Clock From the House Jan 1987
Open Verdict September 1953
Orchard Walls February 1955
Orpheus and the Underworld June 2000
Our Country’s Good Oct 95/Feb 96
Out of Focus June 1992
Out of Sight, Out of Murder Sept 2003
Out of the Crocodile March 1965
Out of the Question February 1971
Out of Thin Air November 1962
Outside Edge March 1982
Pack of Lies May 1987
Pageant Plays April 1973
The Pajama Game September 2001
Pantomime Dec 78/Dec 79
Paper Chase May 1956
Paragon November 1950
Paris The Musical March 2009
Party Piece May 1994
Passage to India May 1963
Passion Play December 2003
A Passionate Woman October 1998
Patrick Pearse Motel September 1973
Peacock Must Go May 1968
Peggy for You January 2005
Person Unknown June 1967
Photo Finish April 1966
Physicists January 1967
Pinafore! September 2000
Pink String and Sealing Wax April 1948
Pinocchio February 1984
Pinter January 1981
The Pirates of Penzance Sept 1989
Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat Dec 1960
Playbill February 1951
Plaza Suite October 1975
Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner
March 1976
Pools Paradise May 1964
The Portrait of a Lady June 2003
Portrait of a Queen August 1969
Power January 2007
The Price July 2002
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie May 1970
Princess Ascending March 1977
Private Ear & Public Eye July 1965
Promise December 1969
Proof of the Poison May 1965
Quartermaine’s Terms February 1985
Quartet April 2001
Quest for a Golden Key March 1980
Question of Fact July 1956
Quiet Weekend August 1947
Racing Demon April 1995
The Railway Children June 2004
Rape of the Belt February 1960
The Real Thing June 1987
The Rehearsal October 1965
Relative Values March 1955
Relatively Speaking March 1970
The Reluctant Debutante Dec 1977
Reluctant Heroes August 1956
Restless Evil December 1977
Return to the Forbidden Planet Nov 1997
Return To the Forbidden Planet March 2010
The Ride Down Mount Morgan July 1998
Ring of Truth May 1961
Ring Round the Moon May 1954
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice August 1999
The Rivals July 1994
River Line April 1954
Roar Like A Dove December 1961
Rock Nativity April 1981
Roleplay July 2006
Romanoff & Juliet November 1958
Romeo & Juliet September 1988
Roots October 1961
The Rose and the Ring January 1988
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
February 1973
Royal Hunt of the Sun July 1969
Rumours February 2000
Run For Your Wife November 1993
Running Riot February 1959
Sabrina Fair November 1957
Sail Away September 2007
Sailor Beware March 1959
A Saint She Ain’t August 2004
Salad Days Aug 64/May 91
Saloon Bar October 1947
Same Sky November 1953
Saturday Sunday Monday January 1977
Say Who You Are January 1969
The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
December 1990
The Scottish Play August 1992
Seagulls Over Sorrento October 1956
Season’s Greetings December 1985
Secondary Cause of Death Feb 03
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Feb 89
The Secret Rapture November 1996
Secret Tent June 1956
See How They Run January 1950
Semi-Detached February 1964
Separate Tables July 1958
Serious Charge August 1958
The Servant of Two Masters Sept 75
Seussical The Muiscal March 2008
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers April 99
Shadow in the Sun April 1969
Shadows of the Evening May 1968
Shakespeare Country December 1993
The Shakespeare Revue May 2003
Shaw Feb 66/Mar66
She Stoops to Conquer August 1967
Shock Tactics May 1967
The Shop at Sly Corner February 1949
Show Boat April 1998
Shred of Evidence January 1962
Simon & Laura June 1957
Simple Spymen August 1963
Sing a Song of Sixpence Dec 1979
Sisterly Feelings May 1984
The Sisters Rosensweig March 2004
A Skull in Connemara May 2005
Sleep No More November 2009
Slice of Saturday Night October 2000
Small Craft Warnings July 1993
A Small Family Business July 1992
Small Hotel October 1957
Snow White (Panto) February 2010
Some Canterbury Tales February 1988
Some Of My Best Friends Are Women June 2009
Someone Waiting November 1955
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me Jun 96
Something to Hide July 1959
Something’s Afoot May 1979
Son et Lumiere Sept 65/Sep 66
Song at Twilight May 1968
The Sound of Music February 1993
South Pacific July 1988
Sparklers February 2009
Spell of Virtue April 1965
Spring and Port Wine June 1970
Stags and Hens September 1996
Steel Magnolias October 1993
Straight and Narrow June 1995
Such Things Happen Dec 1948
Suddenly at Home May 1975
Suite in Three Keys May 1968
Summer Holiday July 2006
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Aug 60
Sweeney Todd June 1988
Sweet Charity February 1992
Taking Steps January 1994
Tartuffe August 1996
Teahouse of the August Moon Nov 60
Ten Times Table Jul/Aug 81
The Graduate July 2008
The Snow Queen February 2008
The Talented Mr Ripley October 2007
The York Realist May 2007
There Goes the Bride May 1978
There’s a Girl in My Soup January 1974
They Came From Mars & Landed
Outside the Farndale Ave Church Hall... March 2002
They’re Playing Our Song February 1987
The Things We Do For Love Jan 02
This Blessed Plot May 1950
This Happy Breed July 1947
This Happy Home December 1965
Thoroughly Modern Millie Nov 2007
Time and the Conways September 92
Time and Time Again February 1976
Time of My Life December 1998
Tom & Viv July 2001
Tom Jones Jan 68/Nov 87
A Tomb With A View September 1994
Tons of Money January 1992
Top Girls November 1984
Torch Song Trilogy April 1994
Touch of Danger September 1991
Touch of Fear January 1959
Touch of the Sun January 1960
Toys in the Attic November 1994
Trafford Tanzi February 2001
Trap for a Lonely Man Dec 1968
Travesties January 1979
Treasure on Pelican June 1955
Two and Two Make Sex (Sextet) May 76
Two Into One December 1995
Uncle Harry October 1949
Under Milk Wood Oct 59/Aug 71
Underneath the Arches July 1999
Uproar in the House October 1973
The Venetian Twins August 1998
Veronica’s Room August 2007
Victorian Melodrama Oct 64/Nov 74
La Vie Parisienne August 1992
View From the Bridge March 1961
Vincent In Brixton October 2006
The Visitors August 2005
Vivat Vivat Regina June 1974
A Voyage Round My Father Jan 1975
Wait Until Dark January 1970
Waiting for Gillian February 1956
Wanted - One Body December 1966
Waters of the Moon December 1954
The Way of the World June 2000
West Side Story December 1987
The Whales of August September 1995
What The Women Did June 2006
When Did You Last See Your Trousers
February 1992
When the Wind Blows July 1996
When We Are Married Nov 1947
While the Sun Shines June 1947
The White Devil September 1999
White Falcon April 1967
White Sheep of the Family March 1954
Who Goes Bare? May 1998
Who is Sylvia? March 1953
Who Killed Santa Claus? March 1973
The Whole Truth April 1958
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? October 68
Whose Life is it Anyway? January 1982
Wife Begins at Forty November 1992
Wild Goose Chase May 1957
The Will Rogers Follies August 1995
The Wind in the Willows Sept 1993
The Winslow Boy April 1950
Wise Children August 1955
Wishing Well October 1948
Without the Prince August 1948
The Wiz July 1989
Wolfsbane October 1983
Woman in a Dressing Gown Aug 66
The Woodcarver September 1962
The Wrong Side of the Park Mar 1969
Wuthering Heights May 1992
You Can’t Take It With You July 1950
You Never Can Tell March 1966
The Young Elizabeth January 2003
Your Obedient Servant April 1962
Zodiac April 1979