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It was a bold idea on Tom Littler's part to think of adapting Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray into a multi gender-swapping stage production.
Reformation runs at The White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4DJ from 25 June to 14 July 2019 with performances Mondays to Saturday at 7.30pm, matinees Sundays at 4pm. …
Afterglow at Southwark Playhouse is a classy production but still slow, and because every scene change is like cleaning up after a particularly acrobatic shag, there are more pauses and long…
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 26 July 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock is heading to Oxford to take to the streets with Creation Theatre for an immersive Sha…
It is the slight rearrangement of the text and its implication for the female characters that is Nicholas Hytner's most notable achievement here in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Th…
Electra, Orestes and their tragic family take to the stage from tonight (11 June 2019) at London's Bunker Theatre, with Exchange Theatre's tenth-anniversary revival of Jean-Paul Sartre's The…
After award-winning success at last year's Edinburgh Fringe - where Mate Laura Kressly raved about this "wonderfully welcoming" show - Zoo Co's Sirens launches a UK tour this month, includin…
The magicians chatted to Emma Clarendon about being part of The Illusionists which begins performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 6 July 2019.
Fatty Fat Fat is a show by Katie Greenall and Daisy Hale (performed by Greenall alone) which includes dance, movement, a mini game show, audience participation through crisp eating, a ballet…
Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the Finborough Theatre's annual explosion of new writing, returns this week for its eleventh consecutive year, presenting nine new plays on Su…
The outgoing Evening Standard theatre reviewer Henry Hitchings takes a little time to reflect with 10 easygoing questions.
Carrying on a new series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out seven of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (2-9 June 2019). Amidst her top choices are Maryam Philpott's journey back t…
It may be called Precious Little, but this thought-provoking play at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre has plenty to say.
A new adaptation of Shakespeare's famous comedy, updating the Bard's tale for an era of social media, Much Ado About Not(h)ing, comes to the Cockpit Theatre later this month. Get your smartp…
The Australian Ballet heads straight back down the rabbit hole, returning award-winning 2017 hit Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the Melbourne stage for a very welcome encore season.
Let's stop smilingly pretending that tatty, cramped dives with dreadful lavatories are more artistically expressive than venues which conform to modern standards.
From Coldplay to Claude Debussy, crossover soprano Justine Balmer's debut album Simple Thing is a collection of songs that work well together.
Actor Robert Cavanah spoke to Emma Clarendon about starring in Napoli, Brooklyn which plays at the Park Theatre from 13 June until 13 July 2019.
At Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre last night Calendar Girls The Musical was moved to tears, laughing out loud and sobbing. The touring production has lost none of the magic created in the Wes…
The performing arts have featured strongly in the latest Queen's birthday honours, with Simon Russell Beale, Olivia Colman, Cush Jumbo, Sheila Atim, Alfie Boe and David Pountney all featurin…
Riotous in tone, occasionally chaotic but with an inventive playfulness Education, Education, Education successfully captures the optimism of the time but it isn't just nostalgia.
Waitress is a delicate show with powerful moments, laughs and tears that I have no doubt everyone will love.
Sonia Friedman Productions is celebrating after the Broadway transfers of The Ferryman and Ink garnered six wins at the 2019 Tony Awards, while the National Theatre had plenty to be happy ab…
The image we're left with is not one of violence in J'Ouvert at Theatre503, but of pride, friendship and resilience, and a community that's prepared to keep fighting for as long as it takes …
The European premiere of David Finnigan's controversially-titled satire Kill Climate Deniers successfully combines a deeply serious message with some some serious on-stage silliness, set to …
