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David Narayan is an engaging performer and a skilled magician but the concept behind The Psychic Project needs work and the tricks need to feel more original to really impress audiences
Two of the Featured Show campaigns I've been working on recently have been two plays tapping into the political unrest of our times: the return of Tom Salinsky and Robert Khan's Brexit comed…
Tom Littler has taken one of literature's most flamboyant and controversial writers of his generation and added his own twist. The Pictures of Dorian Gary runs smoothly and I would be as bol…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the Bridge Theatre's latest immersive Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky could have come up with a more creative title for their acclaimed political comedy Brexit " but they didn't really need to, given that actual Brexit has been a m…
Apphia Campbell gives a powerful and engaging performance in Woke at Battersea Arts Centre and the play's message about how much hasn't changed is firmly nailed to the mast.
Coming of age plays very often travel through similar storylines and themes. Hedgehog takes a raw approach to this epiphany.
Ultimately, all eyes are on Rachael Stirling in Plenty and she stylishly carries this story of disillusionment to its inevitable, if uncertain, conclusion.
Long-overdue revival of a wartime classic, Terence Rattigan's While the Sun Shines offers an evening that is full of hilarity and insight.
Afterglow is 'The little play that could'. After its impressive Off-Broadway run of 14 months and 467 performances, it has made its way across the pond to the Southwark Playhouse, a theatre …
"One look in her eyes tells us how she has been wronged" - The trailer for James Martin Charlton's new play Reformation gives a flesh-creeping taste of how model Eva is manipulated and misus…
A revival of the play Brexit at the King's Head Theatre, Islington is very much of the moment and stirs some classic sitcom memories.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, next Saturday 22 June 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is at Soho Theatre for the premiere of Citysong, transferred direct from Dublin's …
"We started the company because we agreed that theatre isn't telling women's stories the way women deserve," says Flat 4 Theatre.
We should celebrate the fact that within the space of a year London has played host to stagings of not one but two Sondheim masterpieces that have all but redefined them in theatrical terms:…
Over the last five years, 13-time Offie-nominated Arrows & Traps have become a regular fixture both on the London Fringe scene and on this blog. And the good news is they're not going an…
Drinking, dancing, matching outfits and small puppet people, these production photos give a hint at what to expect from BoxLess Theatre's Hedgehog, which is already turning heads at the Lion…
Family musical Annie, with its sheer enthusiasm, joy and optimism, is exactly what we all need in these gloomy times and with Nikolai Foster's gloriously heartwarming and sincere production …
Apphia Campbell performs the two central characters in Woke at Battersea Arts Centre, embodying their passion and anger through storytelling and song, in this lightning-strike of a show.
Associate Artist, Jack Albert Cook, makes his Lion and Unicorn Theatre debut in July, when his tale of mental health within the gay community, Fast Love, runs at the Kentish Town venue. Book…
Nicholas Hytner gives us an utterly inspired take on A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre, with Gwendoline Christie in stupendous form.
Sushi Girls, Tony Leliw's new comedy about a pair of Japanese students living in London, will bring its tale of cultural confusion to Theatro Technis in July. Book your tickets now!
We're told Plenty is viewed as a modern classic. For the life of me I have no idea why and the sterling work of this excellent cast can do nothing to dissuade me.
New international performance collaboration Wet Paint brings its first production, Fall Prettier, to The Space later this month, promising a wacky, brutal and glitter-dusted take on appropri…
Anthony McCarten has put together a top-notch drama in The Pope which is brought to life by the outstanding performances of gifted character actors, Anton Lesser and Nicholas Woodeson.
