950 stories by "Laura Kressly"
The current production of A Christmas Carol " The Musical captures LOST's ethos and the spirt of Christmas in all of its joyful, communal and tacky glory with a cast composed of both amateur…
Sideshow/cabaret Dr Carnesky's Incredible Bleeding Woman is a wonderfully quirky manifestation of sisterhood, womanhood and the wonders of the female body.
Performed by three actors who enthusiastically embrace physical comedy and metatheatre, this surprisingly faithful adaptation is spunky and fun with a few scares, but the performance quality…
By guest critic Rebecca Nice, @rebeccajsnice In Stuck, four women alternate telling a story, reciting a monologue or presenting a speech. The work is loaded with satire that d…
It's doubly ironic that in post-referendum, post-truth Brexit Britain, we've spent the last few months being told that you simply cannot call people stupid or racist. We don't actually have …
No doubt many of us feel like this as some point in the run up to the holidays, but there are those that find this time of year particularly hard. Simon Stephens immortalises a ragtag collec…
Ruth Wilson's work is stunning, though " her performance is up there with Denise Gough's in People, Places and Things. She successfully grapples with Hedda's emotional changeability and disp…
There are several versions of Dickens' classic story on stage at the moment including two at the same venue, but I'm pretty sure that Flanagan Collective's is the only one that involves a a …
Shakespeare’s original performances wouldn’t have had rehearsals or a director, and the actors never received full scripts – it was too expensive and time consuming to copy…
No mirrored spiegeltent or purple cow, but Blue Rivers Elephant's rough-and-ready simplicity and grit approaches the edge of minimalist cool. Their debut show, the circus/cabaret Santa's Sto…
It's not a big, showy American musical, but one that is distinctly and quietly British. With more development and dramaturgical support, Muted will really shine.
When repressed middle class couple Mr Phillip and Mrs Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger get lost in rural Wales in a horrific downpour, they head to the nearest house for shelter.
The Salon:Collective's Monorogue is back again, this time with a Christmas edition. The monologue showcase is now in Santa's workshop, where perky elf Gingersparkles is interviewing human ca…
Making devised work for the past 50 years, People Show are nothing less than prolific. Their multidisciplinary works are numbered as part of the title; the company's works now number 132. To…
By guest critic Rebecca Nice @rebeccajsnice NoFit State Circus takes London by storm with a big show in a big top with grand ideas and huge audiences. A must-see on the London tourist and ar…
Bryony Lavery's Victorian send-up Her Aching Heart has all the OTT melodrama and silliness of a pantomime, but this two-character, lesbian love story is decidedly not a panto. Full of innuen…
Being an immigrant is hard. Sure, it gets easier but it's never easy. You are always an outsider, the Other, or that loaded word " FOREIGN.
Millennials blame baby boomers for a lot. As a millennial, albeit one born in the boundary year (if I were 6 months older I would not fall in this much-maligned generation), I very much alig…
Girls with guns are everywhere in pop culture " films, video games, porn, telly " and they're always highly sexualised and conventionally stunning. What is it about a fit girl armed with a b…
Boys, Ella Hickson's play, alludes to a teenage girl patronisingly rolling her eyes at the clumsy and emotionally immature endeavours of her male school mates.
Luna is a proper East London geezer. Busy with one-night stands, spitting rhymes and doing shots, she's also a mum in a long term relationship on the prowl for fleeting moments that remind h…
Nailing that first job after drama school can be daunting. You are no longer competing for roles with a small collection of peers, you are bidding for work in an environment where literally …
Pentameters Theatre, tucked above a Hampstead gastropub, feels more like a community theatre than a professional fringe theatre. Many of the audience know each other, and the theatre staff f…
It's so easy to brush aside a production of Romeo and Juliet " it's overdone, every one knows it, it's not innovative. But when it's staged with energy, passion and commitment, the story shi…
Donny Stixx is a teenaged magician with boundless dedication to his craft and desperation for fame. Rather than doing things that boys his age normally do, he spends hours honing his skills …
