The Almeida Theatre has announced the full cast for the world premiere of Shipwreck by Anne Washburn (The Twilight Zone, Mr Burns), directed by the venue's artistic director Rupert Goold, ru…
A couple of weeks ago I was one of the lucky few who was allowed into the Caroline, or Change rehearsal rooms for a sneak peek at how the show was coming along, as it prepared for its West E…
Lisa Carroll's Cuckoo, her new debut play about Irish teens, has some exciting dialogue but its production doesn't quite deliver.
Sisters really are doing it for themselves! As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Friday 18 January 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to the all-female company behind…
Gorgeous design, cunning direction and a dreamy cast combine for the pure pleasure of Twelfth Night, an early Christmas present from Melbourne Theatre Company.
After ten years on our television screens, the long-running sitcom Benidorm has found a new home on stage as a national touring production.
Tonderai Munyevu's The Moors at the Tara Theatre follows two African men on the hunt for Shakespeare and coming up hard against the realities for actors of colour.
Old Spice: If you couldn't obtain/afford/be bothered to get tickets for the Spice Girls' re-re-reunion, Denim The Reunion Tour may just be the very thing you've been waiting for.
Poet Nick Makoha spoke to Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon about his new piece The Dark which plays at the Ovalhouse until 1 December 2018.
In this episode of The Show People Podcast, host Andrew Keates was joined by producer Jamie Chapman Dixon all about his life and career, including being the in-house executive producer of th…
The 2019 season at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre will feature Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town directed by Ellen McDougall and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita…
Hadestown's journey onto the stage of the National Theatre " and, indeed, its upcoming transfer to Broadway " has been as tortuous and precarious as the story it tells.
Katharine McPhee will make her West End debut starring as Jenna in the UK premiere of Waitress, having played the role on Broadway earlier this year.
Child-marriage drama AISHA, which plays at a trio of London venues this winter, does not shy away from the harrowing realities of a horrendous situation. Neither do the two short trailers cr…
Summer & Smoke, the latest Almeida Theatre West End transfer, is the first thing I've experienced in a while where the theatre audience is really, properly engaged in a play. It's like …
Earlier this year I headed out on tour with The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk " well, I went to every venue on the UK leg of their tour… So with this being my year of Emma Rice, I simply had to…
Untrustworthy sailors, stolen treasure, plentiful rum and boat with a captain named Jack " find these and you will be at the 'x' that marks the spot for your standard pirate tale. Inventive …
Superbly directed by Kim Gavin and Jack Ryder, aided by a strong team of equally imaginative creatives, there is so much more to the success of the intriguing musical The Band than one would…
Possessing the wit of Wilde and the sexual frankness of a Restoration play, George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer has been a firm favourite since its first performance in 1706. Jenny East…
The Gate Theatre's staging of Jamaica Kincaid's anger-filled essay on Antigua, A Small Place, is drawing audiences and critics to Notting Hill. With four-star reviews and assertions that the…
Cuckoo by Lisa Carroll has all the elements of a wonderful coming-of-age story. Set in a small Irish town, this play packs many a punch, giving us a raw look at what it means to not fit in, …
The Royal Opera House is currently reviving Elijah Moshinsky's production of Verdi's tragedy Simon Boccanegra. Here's what critics have been saying about it…
Mark Ravenhill's The Cut shocked audiences when it premiered in 2006. Twelve years later, it's being revived at the Lion And Unicorn Theatre. But this new version has made its own changes - …
I try out the new smart caption glasses while watching Hadestown at the National Theatre and am blown away both by the show and the frankly amazing technology.
Plays about old age are often also plays about death. This is certainly true of American novelist Don DeLillo's evocatively titled 2005 play, Love-Lies-Bleeding.