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Not quite a perfect version of Closer at Lyric Hammersmith but a compelling one. If the heart really just looks like a fist wrapped in blood then why, Lizzimore's production asks, does it hu…
You'll like Blue at the White Bear Theatre if… The play is a dark comedy. You will laugh. You will think about the 'human condition'. You will find some of it absurd because life is a litt…
Lucy Roslyn's Pennyroyal takes Edith Wharton's 1922 novella The Old Maid as its initial inspiration but feels immensely immediate and relevant. It centres on a very specific theme " Prematur…
Bubbly, bold and brassy, 9 to 5 the Musical is a well-timed wallop of feel-good fare. Proving an ideal fit for a cinema-to-stage adaptation, hit 1980 movie 9 to 5 provides three leading ladi…
Lindsay Duncan and Hilton McRae reveal the full depths of The Dance of Death's ambiguity in production that is funny and strangely touching. Directed by the Arcola's own Mehmet Ergen, the co…
Victor Lotado's story The Woman Who Amuses Herself is based on true events which took place back in 1911 when Vincenzo Peruggia stole the famous painting Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris. …
What I can safely say about Millennials at The Other Palace is that Elliot Clay has produced a collection of irresistible musical earworms, some rousing, some boppy, a couple reflective, all…
Four up-and-coming actors will star in the world premiere of Proforca Theatre's latest explosive new play Flashbang, which has a strictly limited run at the start of the new autumn season at…
In advance of its appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, this film version of Retribution Day, described to me by its creators as "a marmite piece" is a taut but puzzling tale of revenge.
"What will happen in England after we have won this war? Bunting! Bunting everywhere!" Richard Bean and Oliver Chris' new play Jack Absolute Flies Again at the National Theatre takes R.B. Sh…
The Edinburgh Festival is not far away now and, as often happens at this time of year, there are a number of shows playing themselves in before transferring in a northerly direction for thei…
If you're familiar with Franz Kafka, you'll be aware of the themes so often present in his work: isolation, alienation, mental and physical struggle " the epitome of 'Kafkaesque'. Acclaimed …
Delayed by Covid for over two years, Jack Absolute Flies Again finally lands on the Olivier stage when we have never needed Richard Bean and Oliver Chris' goofy and hilarious romp more. An a…
We take a look at what critics have had to say about Lear deBessonet's Broadway production of Into The Woods starring Sara Bareilles and Gavin Creel.
It says something about national cultures that the French equivalent of The Mousetrap is Eugène Ionesco's short play, The Lesson. It has been running at Théâtre de la Huchette in Paris …
Roy Williams' play The Fellowship centres on a small family unit, but there are a lot of big things going on. Dawn (Cherrelle Skeet) is grieving the loss of a child while caring for her term…
Finding yourself stuck in a portaloo toilet with Her Majesty the Queen would be nerve-wracking enough for anyone, add a bomb into the equation and an anti-Royalist and The Throne at the Char…
Based on the popular 1990s film, Pretty Woman The Musical at the Savoy Theatre never strays too far from the original material but does manage to offer extra depth to characters.
Writer Peter Hamilton, who has had several plays produced on the London Fringe, is premiering his dark comedy Blue " about the quest for spiritual meaning in a modern secular and cynical age…
August Strindberg's The Dance Of Death from 1900 has been credited with prefiguring the works of Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter and most notably provided a template for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid…
A-Typical Rainbow is a play written, and starring, JJ Green and produced by Aria Entertainment. The play will run at the Turbine Theatre until 7 August before hopefully being picked up to co…
After lauded productions of Feel, At Last, Lately and Volcano, Proforca Theatre premieres Flashbang, its latest new play by James Lewis at London's Lion & Unicorn Theatre this autumn. Ti…
Moment of Grace by Bren Gosling narrates Princess Diana's visit to Britain's first HIV/AIDS unit at the end of the eighties. It's a personal and moving show that addresses people's misconcep…
Jamie Lloyd's quietly compelling production of The Seagull features a cast at the top of their game, but Anya Reiss' adaptation is a little slow to get going.
Cultural appropriation doesn't just take place across different nations
