209 stories by "Honour Bayes"
Finborough Theatre, London: Here is a sort of marriage between Sumerian mythology and a family saga you might find in EastEnders or, because it's also very funny, Modern Family. It'…
Southwark Playhouse, London: After scoring a hit with his first play Bound, Jesse Briton's second is not short on ambition. Enduring Song sees Briton's company, Bear Trap Theatre, …
London Wonderground, London: "Forgive all those who call us strippers," Miss Tempest Rose drawls with a wink. After some sassy audience patter, she's beginning House of Burles…
Last week the new Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Sajid Javid called for more accessibility in the arts. It was a pretty stonking speech and it got me thinking practically ab…
Udderbelly, London: Australian acrobats Gravity and Other Myths tumble about the stage in the sort of khaki shorts and pastel tops we're used to seeing in GAP adverts. As they test thei…
Riverside Studios, London: It's rare that Ophelia is also the fight director in a production of Hamlet but then this is no ordinary version. <a href="http://www.hiraethartisticp…
I love it when small theatres dream big and I love it even more when their ambition is matched by success. So I couldn't be happier for the organisers of Incoming Festival which stormed to&#…
Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Rachel De-Lahay's Circles explores cycles of violence in a play that lands a number of hefty emotional punches. It's affecting at first and then feels…
Arcola Theatre, London: Simon Dormandy brings a determinedly contemporary Waiting for Godot to the Arcola - baseball caps replace bowlers and a hot young double act has been drafted in.
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‘How long is it?’. This is the first question friends ask when I invite them to see a show with me. It’s an important issue because the answer often effects whether they co…
Arcola Theatre, London: Sudha Bhuchar's new verbatim play is an even-handed look at a tug-of-love scandal that dominated tabloids in 2006. Ny Name is... examines a child's decision…
Theatre 503, London: The first thing to say about A Handful of Stars, starring Boyzone's Keith Duffy, is that Duffy's not duff. He's good in fact, along with the rest of Paul …
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Lucy Bailey's spectacular 2006 production of Titus Andronicus makes a glorious return to the Globe; much as its eponymous General does to Rome. But unlike t…
Southwark Playhouse, London: It's fitting that this revival of Dennis Kelly's Debris comes around Easter, as this dark two-hander sets about to repurpose the Christ story. A brothe…
Lion and Unicorn, London: Writer Peter Oswald comes with an impressive CV; his plays have been performed at the Globe and the National Theatre, and Phyllida Lloyd - who directed his Mary Stu…
Look across the fringe and it’s raining theatrical dynasties; Redgrave, Fox, Rigg " if you want to see the creme de la creme of genetic theatrical talent for half the price of a West E…
The Lost Theatre, London: This is an affecting debut from the Komola Collective, a company set up to tell previously untold histories from women's perspectives. After a year of research…
Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Written in 1895 and boasting a fiery female protagonist, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith is as radical as any contemporary feminist play.
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Southwark Playhouse, London: Two years after revamping The Seagull, Anya Reiss and Russell Bolam are back with Three Sisters. It's a lively rendition that provides a strong take on the …
As the Olivier nominations attest, this is the time of the musical. Even the fringe is not immune – with over 10 musical productions coming up over the next few months. But – sti…
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London: Roy Williams returns to the theatre where he started his career with a bristling, macho cop drama that attempts to examine the state of Jamaica today. B…
Red Gallery, London: The Nine O'Clock Slot unearths the stories of the men and women who are given public health burials, or paupers funerals; it is a compelling and thought provoking p…
The Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Bash, Neil LaBute's devastating indictment of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is so much more sophisticated than its bullish title sug…
The Print Room, London: Jon Fosse may be the most performed playwright elsewhere in Europe but he hasn't had much luck on UK shores, and this opaque production seems unlikely to change …
When I found out last week that Boyzone star Keith Duffy was making his stage debut at the intimate Theatre 503 I had mixed feelings. I'd always been a Take That fan so there was…
