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Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon picks out some of the shows on Broadway she wants most to see…
Husband and wife Feargus Woods Dunlop and Heather Westwell co-founded New Old Friends and have discovered a knack - and award-winning success - bringing detective stories to family audiences…
June is widely celebrated throughout the UK as being the month to celebrate Pride. The month is used to embrace a culture that was once suppressed, and what better way to do this than to wat…
Strange Fruit is a complex, dense play that is beautifully played by a talented ensemble and thoughtfully directed by Nancy Medina.
The classic advice for writers is to 'write what you know'. That's exactly what journalist and playwright Tony Leliw has done in creating his new comedy Sushi Girls. Find out how playing ho…
Playwright James Graham may have had two plays in the West End at the same time but can he handle ten questions from me?!
It's not every day that you're taught to deliver a knockout blow with the butt of a gun, or, at least, appear to convincingly do so, but that's what's been happening in rehearsals for the wo…
Sonia Friedman Productions has announces the world premiere of Leopoldstadt, a new play by Tom Stoppard, directed by Patrick Marber.
Tuyen Do is no stranger to the London stage having appeared most recently in The Great Wave at the National Theatre and Pah-Na at the Royal Court, but next week she'll be sitting in the audi…
Overall, Al Smith's play feels as though it is too meandering to be completely effective, but this production has a charm about it to keep you engaged from start to finish.
She's been acting less time than I've been blogging but I can't hold that against Rosie Wyatt, an actress whose name you should know.
In the week when moves to regulate Airbnb failed and it was decided to curtain Princess Street Gardens off during commercial gigs, Active Inquiry's The Sideshow feels remarkably relevant.
The actor Tom Espiner chatted to LLLC's Emma Clarendon about being part of bringing Yann Martel's novel to the stage.
"What if I could go back and make a different decision?" It's a sentiment we much all have felt, and it's at the centre of new piece The Chaos Theory, in which three women are given just tha…
The Hired Man is a lively and refreshing Northern musical which offers us an insight into the life of rural communities at the beginning of the 20th century.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 23 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at the West End's Trafalgar Studios for the acclaimed new production of Peter Shaf…
I truly believe that Electrolyte is doing positive things to bring mental health to the surface in a safe space where people can see themselves reflected in art, as well as start important c…
While the name of the show, Kill Climate Deniers, invokes images of violence and negativity " a fact not unnoticed by the playwright " the show is poignant, entertaining and a clever way to …
Sirens is a rip-roaring show that shares a vital feminist message and champions increased inclusivity in theatre " consider the history books rewritten!
Are you ready to get angry? Are you ready to demand change? What are you going to do about it? Watch this extended trailer for a thrilling new version of An Enemy of the People staged next m…
My advice to the next generation of men and women applying for colleges is perhaps avoid the college that excels in your strength.
Nearly 40 years after it premiered at the then-new Old Red Lion Theatre before transferring to the West End, Phil Young's devised three-hander about one couple's experience with blindness, C…
Rather tickled that no less than the artistic director of the National Theatre Rufus Norris himself does time out of his hectic schedule to answer Ten (9) Questions for Ten Years.
Where…
Bitter Wheat, the most controversial play of the year, is almost certainly also going to be the worst.
