62 stories by "Rebecca Latham"
Are we bikini body ready? House of Burlesque’s brand-spanking new show, Straight Up, delights the liquor lovers in the audience by taking us of a sensual journey of seduction via ou…
Within the Bussey Building for the last full week of June, Paradise means a chance to be voted the winner in a competition of beauty and skill in a televised pageant. With a distinctly 80s f…
Nature versus nurture is a good starting point when thinking about Hamish Pirie’s production of Violence and Son, the new play from Welsh playwright Gary Owen. To what extent does our …
Dennis Kelly penned the blisteringly successful stage musical of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, transforming the much-loved children’s book into a West End epic. His latest, Our Teacher&#…
Haruki Murakami is one of modern literature's most well-loved authors, both inside his native Japan and amongst broader reading populations across the globe, with a particularly strong follo…
The Merchant of Venice has been a long-serving vessel of discomfort for critics and audiences alike, unsure whether the play fuels anti-Semitic sentiment or provides an on-going platform for…
Pegged as Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! is a neat balance of slapstick gags, drunken mayhem, impromptu verse recitals, and most pertinently, a grand display of ho…
‘Drink Me’ or ‘Eat Me’? The answer to that question will determine the route you take through Wonderland; purposefully split off from your party, you could f…
As a celebration of the 125th anniversary of the publication of Oscar Wilde’s most recognisable work, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Another Soup has brought its immersive, musical ver…
It's 1953; Polish-born Spijak occupies one half of a Savile Row tailor’s workroom, whilst the remaining side is taken up by his bolshie friend, Eric; what they share in passion, the…
News of funding cuts for some of the UK’s most iconic arts institutions last summer, most notably the English National Opera, may have spurred creatives to think more urgently about di…
If walking into the Vault Festival four days before its closure was your first entrance to the festival, then I can sympathise with the overwhelming sense of anger. This will subside and sad…
It is a grim reality, rarely acknowledged in our everyday lives, that most of us have little idea of where our food comes from. Each time a video surfaces that demonstrates the horrific slau…
The current star in the 'Extreme Love' series being shown at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is Thomas Middleton's The Changeling, a Jacobean musing on passion and madness. The Globe's artistic …
Juliet Gilkes Romero, well-known for her At The Gates of Gaza, delivers a new drama at the Southwark Playhouse that examines the political trajectory of Britain from the present back to 1…
In the playwright's notes, John Cariani expresses this sentiment under the heading 'On time': “The plot of each scene in Almost Maine climaxes with some sort of magical moment". Forgiv…
During his education at Oxford's Trinity College in the early 1930s, well-known British dramatist Terence Rattigan, wrote his first completed play with fellow student Philip Heimann. For a f…
It is hard to picture a more perfect stage for Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore than the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, which opened in January this year. The low-lit stage paired with num…
Ibsen knew that the truth is a complicated thing. In general, seeking out the truth appears to be a valuable endeavor, but in reality living with the truth may be no good at all. Whether it …
In keeping with the Trafalgar Transformed season, captained by Jamie Lloyd, East is East is aimed at appealing to a wide bracket of would-be theatre-goers as well as existing ones. Sam Yates…
Despite all the best intentions, sometimes a theatre show just does not work. For me, Caldo con Enjundia's Bar Ensueño is that show. Perhaps my reaction is an anomaly – the audience…
Founded in 2010, The Print Room theatre used to be at home in an abandoned building in Hereford Road, but after the landlord announced development plans for the site last year, Artistic Dire…
Every now and then a performer manages to reset the bar of what can be achieved in theatrical circumstances; Kristin Scott Thomas just broke the bar in her portrayal of a woman drowning in g…
It starts with a bang in the darkness, a potentially reckless decision given that 80 percent of the audience was over the age of 60. The loud bang that sped from the slanted stage into the g…
Still in its infancy, the Park Theatre is proving to be a top player in the London theatre network, and with David Hare’s The Vertical Hour currently taking residence, the future looks…
