"Powerful and sensational", "engrossing", "definitely one to see" - the critics and bloggers have aired their views on Original Theatre's production of Meghan Kennedy's drama, Napoli, Brookl…
What happens after the #ToryLeadershipContest? Tom Salinksy and Robert Khan's Brexit [the play] has some hysterical - and worryingly plausible - predictions. What have celebrity guests and a…
Caryl Phillips' 1980 Windrush classic Strange Fruit is a bit too masculinist and verbose, and poorly staged.
This year the Magnificent Bastards have given the shit-faced treatment to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and, opening tonight (21 June 2019), Hamlet onstage. And here are a few more t…
Original History Boy Samuel Barnett takes on the 10 Questions for 10 Years challenge.
Only on until 4 July before an international tour, The Light In The Piazza is a must see for all who appreciate modern writing and quality musical theatre.
If I could look into Madame Arcati's crystal ball I think I would see a West End transfer on the cards for Richard Eyre's playful production of Blithe Spirit.
Week Two of this year's Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, features new plays set in Quebec, New Zealand and the bedroom, care of Colleen Murphy, Albert Belz and Sharmila Chauha…
This production of Miss Julie, by the Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company, keeps things simple and focused on the complex subtext of Strindberg's work (here in a proficient translation by M…
This touring production of Captain's Corelli's Mandolin allows aching heartbreak to overcome any nods to cloying sentimentality.
Theatre company Smoking Apples has since its inception used puppets and physical theatre to create imaginative labours of love. In Flux, we meet Kate, a 30-something physicist in 1984, worki…
Following the success of his first season at The Bunker, artistic director Chris Sonnex's new season cements his vision for the theatre, representing and sharing the stories of its community.
Strange Fruit is an exposing and painful play but it feels like it distracts itself from its otherwise powerful key theme.
How did an Adele song and a playwright's own mental health experiences come together to inspire Fast Love, a new piece of writing about a 25-year-old struggling to cope? Jack Albert Cook exp…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the European premiere of Meghan Kennedy's play Napoli, Brooklyn, now playing at the Park Theatre.
Tents, pajamas and a lot of anger - that's what we can see in these production images from Annie Jenkins' trio of female monologues A Tinder Trilogy, which runs at Theatre503 later this mont…
Bitter Wheat is not only frustratingly irresponsible in its treatment of the events that led to the #MeToo movement, it is also a poorly constructed drama.
How did real life tragedy spark a new 21st century, social media-embracing adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, now with added brackets, Much Ado About Not(h)ing? Creator Kelly Wilson tells u…
So this week, I saw some of the best and worst theatre as well as the Spice Girls again, which some would argue is the best and worst in pop music at the same time.
The most lyrical and romantic thing about Light In The Piazza is its title. That, and the luscious vintage-style 50s costumes which evoke the American idyll of Italy as captured by Audrey He…
Saturday Supper Clwbs are described as "your brand-new Saturday out" hosted by Wales Millennium Centre and through my experience I can certainly say that it was a fun one.
If, like me, you still love to stick your head in a book and long to remember the days you could read for hours unencumbered by the worries of the world then get along and see Matilda The Mu…
Vicki Manser told us about Six the Musical, who she'd like to play her in her own pop concert musical and what she'd say to Henry VIII if she got the chance...
A beautiful reinterpretation of the Shakespearean classic, Matthew Bourne's Romeo & Juliet at The Lowry modernises the tale of doomed love for a new audience.
As they open at Southwark Playhouse check out these production images from Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Bridge Company's new drama What Was Left and watch the cast of new musical The Sandm…