Review: American Boy, Lilian Baylis Studio
Hetain Patel is a visual artist whose performance is themed around American film culture and how it shapes and alters our identities. Following a sold-out performance at Sadler's Wells and a…
Hetain Patel is a visual artist whose performance is themed around American film culture and how it shapes and alters our identities. Following a sold-out performance at Sadler's Wells and a…
It is absolutely incredible how you can step through the doors of an auditorium and find yourself in the midst of a delicately decorated wedding party hall. Everyone in the audience has thei…
Cressida Bonas stars as Laura in this one woman show, An Evening with Lucian Freud, alongside a variety of celebrity video cameos. Laura is a PhD student and we find her on the day of her…
High Society is one of those films that everyone has heard of, if not seen it. The classic film starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra: with such a star billing, you know it had …
"Timeless is not an answer, not a statement, not an opinion nor a single perspective. It is a question… in fact many questions. It is an attempt to see…. to feel…. to experience.……
The first rule of Das Spiel, or in fact any immersive theatre, is that you must enter with an open mind, stay relaxed and be a willing player " after all, the game found you, didn't it? I…
Most people will know the story of Jurassic Park having seen this classic dinosaur film. You could easily see this comedy adaptation without needing to see the film but just in case, here…
Shakespeare has been reworked and modernised continuously but even Shakespeare himself would have been impressed with this particularly drunken performance. The first thing you have to know …
Matchbox Theatre takes 24 short plays by Michael Frayn and presents them in five minute sketches, in the space of two hours. The small cast move from story to unrelated story in the most exp…
The Verb ‘To Love’Â is a universal love story. The writer wants to make it clear that, “Although the protagonists are gay, this is not a gay play as such; each and every …
Whether it stirs memories from your school days, highlights your concerns as a parent or re-awakens your more nightmarish days working in a school, there isn’t one person who won’…
The Acting Gymnasium takes a classic play, Chekhov's The Seagull and brings it into the First World War. The themes are timeless, looking at complicated relationships, whether it's between t…
Shock Treatment is like The Rocky Horror Show's underachieving younger sibling. Sure, it has its own charm and can be quite entertaining but it will never leave its older sibling's shadow. R…
Apartment 40c is a new musical written by the artistic directors of London Theatre Workshop, Tom Lees and Ray Rackham. The show tells a story of love and relationships and how time and choic…
On the same weekend that both Easter and Passover happen to fall this year, it only seems fitting to spend Easter Sunday watching Godspell in Concert. The story is a modern adaptation of the…
According to director, Lois Jeary, “Theatre is a place to tell stories; to collectively feel, experience and understand; to be let in to someone else’s life for a moment- only th…
Buttery Brown Monk are a lively trio that perform sketch comedy. The names come from a combination of their names: Samuel Buttery, Ryan J Brown and Jamie-Rose Monk. They have a good range of…
The Show Must Go On is one of the iconic works of the French choreographer Jérôme Bel where the relationship between art and life is “constantly surprising and challenging the view…
This adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is definitely recognisable from the well-known book and countless film adaptations. If there was one word to use to differentiate this Alice from any o…
Two friends – likely to be just out of university, join the masses of other young adults in the quest to find themselves in the real world. Paul is on the never-ending hunt for a job a…
Jerry’s Girls is night of fantastic entertainment looking back at the success of composer and lyricist Jerry Herman and the women who influenced his life. Some of these women include w…
By the time I found the theatre I felt like I had embarked on my own long and difficult journey and The Vault was my Ithaca, barely recognisable through an ominous graffiti-decorated tunnel.…
It seems fitting to present Dracula at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre. You enter through the rowdy pub, up the spiralling staircase and into a small, dark and misty room, where you can vaguely…
The First Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre gives solo acts as opportunity to showcase their work. On Sunday 15th February, David Forest took to the stage to perform his own original son…
Young mother Paula is always getting left by the men in her life. The show opens with Paula and her 12-year-old daughter, Lucy, getting ready to leave for California with Paula’s lates…