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Mark Ravenhill's production of La Boheme is pared down to 90 minutes and four on-stage characters, with a piano taking the place of an orchestra. This makes it intimate and immediate.
Heather Alexander's acclaimed one-woman play Room, a unique dramatised interpretation of Virginia Woolf's A Room Of One's Own, is being staged this summer at Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Fr…
David Eldridge's trilogy about relationships, which started in 2017 with the hit show Beginning, now reaches its second part with Middle, which has opened at the National Theatre.
So many female performers and creatives currently at the top of their game in a male-centric world. This makes The Cher Show an extra special, female empowering watch.
Based on true events, the world premiere production of The Misfortune of the English at the Orange Tree Theatre features three completely engaging performances " but it does seem to run out …
With The Burnt City, Punchdrunk's biggest show to date, they take on Greek myth, although the aesthetic is anachronistic: boho chic meets old school Hollywood glamour meets monochrome starkn…
All three of the short plays that feature in Fizzy Sherbet's audio series centre on writer/performers who, not unnaturally, bring a depth of emotion to their own work.
The Young Vic presents a rather sexy version of Oklahoma! that replaces twee interpretations of cowboy country with a throbbing desire that inflicts the inhabitants of this rural town, and b…
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon take a look at what critics have been saying about Sam Gold's production starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga.
With a title like Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World, it's unsurprising that the first night King's audience for this touring production was mainly female.
Even 20th century drama is under threat. So can the National Theatre buck this trend with this rediscovery of The Corn Is Green, and some help from its star, Nicola Walker?
Running in rep alongside Henry VI: Rebellion (a.k.a. Henry VI, part two), the Royal Shakespeare Company's Royal Shakespeare Theatre is also currently home to Henry VI, part three. As with th…
Ian Rickson's production of Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem now returns to the Apollo Theatre with all the vitality and urgency it had first time round.
Jackie Sibblies Drury's new play is an entirely female affair, no male characters are present, implied or even speak, only the time-travelling idea of Mary, her ghostly mother, Mary's daught…
The Nutcracker Suite is an old and much-beloved family Christmas favourite. Matthew Bourne's version, however, is a somewhat different take on the classic.
Mike Bartlett is very prolific, but this Restoration-style satire on society at London's Lyric Hammersmith is sadly timid and predictable.
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the first major London revival of The Gypsy Kings musical Zorro, now running at London's Charing Cross Theatre until 28 May…
Mike Bartlett has made a bit of an art out of notions of the counter-factual future. In The 47th, he grounds his flights of fancy in the knowledge of institutions, people and political tides.
The premise sees Cher (Debbie Kurup) about to go onstage for her farewell tour. Facing a crisis of confidence the singer addresses her younger selves (Danielle Steers and Millie O'Connell), …
We knew Mike Bartlett was brilliant, but with this third piece to come to a major London venue in 2022, he displays yet another facet to his virtuosity while staking a claim to be as prolifi…
Sue Glover's play is set on Hirta, the largest island on St Kilda, and takes inspiration from the story of Rachel Erskine, Lady Grange, in the eighteenth century.
Frank Ocean fills the air, and audience members tap their feet and nod their heads in time. I jokingly ask my mum if she recognises the song as I recall how I wailed and begged about 10 year…
What I was expecting from Jackie Sibblies Drury's play highlighting the story of pioneering Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole was a straightforward biopic with her story being recounted maybe from…
Gloria has taken refuge in her attic, distracting herself from the dark winter months and grief by playing punk and dictating entries for her memoir into her laptop.
The show tells the story of three best friends, Effie White, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson, on their quest to become music stars in 1960s America and what happens to them on their way to …
