It is a celebrated motif in Shakespeare plays : characters shake off the confines of their daily lives by escaping into the forest, that transformative green space beyond the city – a place ripe with possibility and peril. In fairytales as well, anything and everything can happen in the woods and it is this notion of liminality that Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) absorbed for their celebrated 1987 musical, which now receives its first major London revival since Sondheim’s death in 2021 .

This prestige creative’s work has always attracted a devoted fanbase and the adoration levels are only going to climb now.

Director Jordan Fein did terrific work with Fiddler on the Roof at the Open Air Theatre in London last year, and here he offers a high-class prod

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