In short, Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales is a fine Christmas show for all the family " but don't be surprised if you have some questions to answer afterwards!
Described as a 'treasure hunt' through a library, Marie Klimis' The Paper Traveller is an individual, immersive experience which combines storytelling with handcrafted pop-up books, intimate…
Untrustworthy sailors, stolen treasure, plentiful rum and boat with a captain named Jack " find these and you will be at the 'x' that marks the spot for your standard pirate tale. Inventive …
Motherlode has been touring this short four-hander, written and directed by Rachael Boulton, round venues in Wales for its premiere. It's London's luck that it has rocked up at the Finboroug…
The main character in Gilded Butterflies, in a superb performance by Francesca McCrohon, is a hyperactive chatterbox confined to a solitary cell on death row, willing to spill out her though…
Acting Gymnasium's talented cast excel with their superb timing and tremendous energy in this acrobatically verbal and physical comedy, A Flea in Her Ear at Theatro Technis.
In Yerma, Lorca's enduring "tragic poem", director Jorge de Juan has seamlessly transposed the action to an Afro-Cuban setting where the unhurried pace of life highlights how empty Yerma's d…
Jesse Briton's A Pupil asks whether genius can be taught. The real question is what is genius and is it genius if it can be so easily mimicked.
Off the back of a two-year Edinburgh Fringe tenure and a tidal wave of rapturous reviews, Hull playwright Luke Barnes' gig theatre opus All We Ever Wanted Was Everything arrives at Shepherd'…
Sadly Shotgun Carousel's Divine Proportions, which markets itself as an immersive dining experience, is neither immersive or very interesting.
The story of Jane Eyre is a gothic, romantic tale of conflicted emotions and repressed passions. Sadly this production from the Watermill lacks these and is treated as more of a story-tellin…
Bury the Dead at Finborough Theatre is a unique and engaging story which captures the sense of unjust, premature death at the mercy of someone else's agenda.
Martin McDonagh is a good writer. I have to state this because based on this production of A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre audiences may not be so convinced.
In a time when jobs are hard to find, morale is down and hope seems far away, The Full Monty presents the tale of Gaz and his hilarious journey to keep seeing his son.
Spotlight on writer, producer, actor and Fennikusu Productions founder Hadesa Sonné…
As the centenary commemorations of World War I draw to a close it seems fitting that Nick Newman and Ian Hislop's The Wipers Times returns to the Arts Theatre.
Les Enfant Terribles' The Trench follows the story of Bert, an older man wanting to serve his country during WWI, and is assigned the task of digging for explosives under No Man's Land.
Arrows and Traps make a triumphant return following their adaptation of The White Rose in this atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
"Small details, carefully recorded" is the instruction a beloved tutor gives to the young Charles Darwin early in this play, and just as Darwin eventually produces something transcendent fro…
The Incident is a timely one-act play about structural racism in Sweden but this tale of a relationship between Swedish Jan and Zimbabwean Monica could be about any mixed-race couple in the …
Over the course of 30 scenes in 90 minutes decked with imagery and metaphors, Dipuka Guha's intricate script for The Art of Gaman takes us through Tomomi's journey through the decades.
The Torch Theatre's in-house team has brought cracking choreographed chaos to the stage in One Man, Two Guvnors, a modern adaptation of a 350-year-old Italian comedy spectacular that was upd…
I feel I should announce something many have missed from Jane Robins and Julie Burchill's debut play People Like Us; it is broad, very very broad, and all the better for it.
I'm the last person on earth to utilise a football metaphor, but the recent Pinter at the Pinter press day (showcasing the first two of six productions of the prolific playwright's one-act p…
This new musical, Liberty Rides Forth, presented at the Waterloo East Theatre, is performed with gusto by the whole cast, all of whom are in fine voice. The problems start with the story. …