The Merchant of Venice 1936 at New Theatre, Cardiff Review by Andy Weltch A powerful new version of a Shakespeare classic has arrived...

Audiences are hard to scare these days, you might think. Sophisticated, big-budget movie and TV horrors have perhaps made us immune to...

A joyfully lighthearted new production of Jules Verne’s classic story Around the World in 80 Days is having a stop-over in Cardiff this...

It’s no wonder The Valley of Fear is so rarely staged. This final Sherlock Holmes novel presents many narrative challenges, and there are...

When Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his mortician wife Cleo arrive in rural France for a much-needed break from the crime-riddled...

When clashes over pro-democracy protests in Syria escalate to civil war in 2011, the peaceful life of beekeeper Nuri and his artist wife...

Of all the adaptations of Jane Austen’s great novel of manners, surely there has never been one as joyously entertaining as Pride &...

If the icy rain and snow of South Wales is getting you down this week, the New Theatre offers the chance to escape to the sunshine and...

When a group of Cornish fishermen came together to perform the traditional songs they’d sung for generations, they didn’t expect it to...

The multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls is back in Cardiff. This...

With Halloween approaching, what could be better than a spooky story? At the New Theatre this week, When Darkness Falls does better than...

The Osmonds were one of the most successful music acts of the 1970s – the ultimate clean-cut boy band before the term ‘boy band’ was...

The spectacular award-winning Meat Loaf-inspired musical Bat Out of Hell roared into Cardiff last night (Tuesday 27 September) to a...

Friendsical is an original and iconic parody musical, inspired by the popular TV show Friends. Last night, Thursday 8th September, was...

Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance is celebrating 25 years of entertainment, and The New Theatre is part of it. Starring Cassidy Ludwig...

The feel-good musical Dreamboats and Petticoats: Bringing on Back the Good Times!, the popular sequel to Dreamboats and Petticoats opened...

The setting is a country manor house outside London on a stormy night in 1949. A series of guests arrive, not knowing why they’ve been...

Derren Brown’s phenomenal show Showman arrived in Cardiff tonight (Tuesday 29 March) to a standing ovation from an appreciative – and at...

Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through Menopause is the hysterical sequel to the popular show Menopause The Musical. Set five years...

The multi-award-winning Stephen Daldry production of J.B.Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls has returned to Cardiff. This...