ChewBoy Productions has launched ChewFest, a brand-new multi-arts festival for early-career creatives to experiment for free. The inaugural event runs for one week at London's Lion and Unico…
This modern take on the classic fairytale is plenty of fun " but there are moments where the music and story feel a little bit flimsy.
We watch Romeo's journey from the age of five (with his mum painting his nails) to eighteen, always knowing he was gay but dealing with the expectations of his peers as a young black man.
Feel the love as great staging enlivens this well-written monologue about a cross-generational relationship.
Wildcard Theatre's new gig-theatre reimagining of Shakespeare's Tempest opens this week at London's Pleasance Theatre. Designer Luke W Robson took a break from preparations to help us hyphen…
The Drifters Girl is a classic example of the worst type of jukebox musical " a group effort in failing to tell an interesting story whilst putting on a good show.
Ask anybody about the rights of disabled people, and most would say in principle that they should be given every opportunity to live life to the fullest. But given this assumption, why is it…
As part of her resumed post-show talk series, Mates founder Terri Paddock will chair a discussion at Wildcard Theatre's radical reimagining of Shakespeare classic The Tempest at the Pleasanc…
There's way too much going on in this production of Henry V at the Donmar Warehouse, despite Kit Harington's return to the stage.
In the second of our two-part interview, Italian cabaret artist Anita Luna, who brings her award-winning one-woman show THE DIVA to London's Drayton Arms Theatre this week, answers questions…
It has been over 50 years since the wholesome, handsome brothers from Utah, The Osmonds, began their career.
The NHS estimates that postpartum psychosis affects around 1 in 500 mothers shortly after giving birth. Zena Forster's explosive new dark comedy looks at this, whilst being a real crowd-plea…
There are very few companies who do what Lost Dog does so well " seamlessly combining theatre and contemporary dance, as though this was an obvious way to tell a story.
This thrilling Donmar revival comes at a particularly interesting time in global history, where an unchecked leader invading a neighbouring country on which he has no authentic claim is like…
With all its effortful but pointless violence, Dennis Kelly's After the End leaves me cold at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Ibsen's play is infused with poetry and poetic technique. It is a sort of dirge to lives lived as waking death, while still retaining some hope of their resurrection.
The Woods feels decidedly old-fashioned in style and structure, using its characters as ciphers for David Mamet's abstract conclusions about relationships between men and women.
Dirty Hearts, written by Theatre503 award-winning Valhalla's Paul Murphy and billed as "an existential comedy for the age of anxiety", gets its world premiere next month at London's Old Red …
Florian Zeller's puzzles of the mind (The Father, The Mother, The Son, The Height of the Storm) continue to baffle audiences in his new play, The Forest, now in residence at Hampstead's main…
Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the world premiere of Anthony McCarten's The Collaboration, now running at London's Young Vic Theatre until 2 April 2022.
We Perform It is pleased to announce that the 2022 We Perform It Online Acting Competition is now open. Entry to the competition is free and with a prize of £1,000.
Effortlessly and energetically entertaining: Tyrell Williams' debut play about football and gentrification is pitch-perfect.
Not since the original 1990 production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing at the Bush (which featured a pre-stardom Jonny Lee Miller) have I seen a new play and young actors that come off …
First reviews are in for Michael Southan's "comical, heart-warming and enlightening" debut play Kerbs. The new comedy about dating whilst disabled, co-produced by Graeae and Belgrade Theatre…
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Bill Augustin and Andrew Abrams' new musical But I'm a Cheerleader, running at London's Turbine Theatre until 16 April 2022.