Alice Flynn is not happy about the flippant use of the term 'female-led' for shows that really, just aren't. Does she think a show directed by a man can ever be feminst? Let's find out. In t…
Review: People Show 137: God Knows How Many, Southwark Playhouse4.0starsA café stands stage left with a puppet sitting on one of its bar stools. The café is rustic and full of copper colou…
Review: Sticky Door, VAULT Festival 5.0stars Katie Arnstein's heartbreakingly funny show about "sex, stigma and cystitis" is a triumphantly true retelling of her experiences with men and her…
Review: Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands, VAULT Festival3.0starsA lot of us have problems, and the majority of us are hesitant in speaking about them. These problems manifest themselve…
Review: The Lesson, Old Red Lion 2.0Stars Reader Rating 0 Votes Gracia Rios Calderon's one-woman clown show, The Lesson, is not saying anything new, but why should it when the current state …
Review: In My Lungs the Ocean Swells, VAULT Festival3.0starsReader Rating 0 VotesThe Vaults Festival has opened its doors to 'No More Superheroes' newest production, In My Lungs the Ocean Sw…
Review: Cowpuncher My Ass, The Southbank Centre4.0starsHair, fabric and bass aplenty, choreographer Holly Blakey returns to the Southbank Centre for a refreshed commissioned version of 2018'…
Review: MAÌM, Sadler's Wells5.0stars'MÃM' is a primal scream that oscillates from sensitivity to invasiveness. Creator Michael Keegan-Dolan leaves us with impressions, rather than narr…
Review: Death of England, The National Theatre5.0starsEngland is a fucked-up world of its own, a catalyst for change that has a stubborn insistence on perpetually staying the same. We grasp …
Review: Mother Must Die?!, Old Red Lion Theatre 1.0stars Coming in at less than an hour, there is really not very much to say about Mother Must Die. With such a short run time, performers an…
Review: Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit her), VAULT Festival5.0starsMartha Watson Allpress' show, Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with the man that used to hit …
Already experienced in writing for the screen, Rosie Day is about to make her stage writing debut at the Old Red Lion. She talks to Joseph Shaw about the elements that went into the piece an…
Review: The Invitation, Town Hall Hotel2.0starsImmersive theatre is one of the most lucrative sectors of the current theatrical landscape. Promising an intimate and tactile experience, many …
Review: On McQuillan's Hill, Finborough Theatre4.0starsJoseph Crilly's On McQuillan's Hill was first performed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast in February 2000, opening to rave reviews. Meanwh…
Review: I Think We Are Alone, Theatre Royal Plymouth 4.0stars I Think We Are Alone slowly weaves together the lives of six individuals and their own personal heartaches and suffering. It ser…
Review: Leopardess, VAULT Festival 3.0stars We are gathered here to mourn Sarah M Anson after her "untimely demise" surrounded by her nearest and dearest. This untimely demise of Sarah M Ans…
Review: What the Dolls Saw, VAULT Festival 3.0stars At home in the dank dungeon of the VAULT Festival, What the Dolls Saw promises the proverbial moon: a true-crime style conundrum "that unr…
Review: Albion, Almedia Theatre0.0starsYou'd imagine that taking a group of people out of London and putting them in the countryside would help to alleviate any tension that might be present…
Review: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, HOME Manchester 3.0stars There are few more iconic or quintessential show business stars than Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. Th…
Review: On Arriving, VAULT Festival 5.0stars A stage may seem a very lonely space for a single actor to fill, but in On Arriving by Ivan Faute, it's the characters we don't see that flesh ou…
Review: Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Royal Opera House 4.0stars As the next stage in their commitment to programming theatre for family audiences, the Royal Opera House presents Gerald B…
Review: Lost Laowais, VAULT Festival 3.0stars Spinning together the lives of four expats living in Beijing, Lost Laowais explores some of the intricacies of what it means to try to make some…
Review: Be Longing, VAULT Festival4.0Overall ScoreIf you could design your own baby what would it look like? Eye colour? Number of toes? Pigmentation? Shouldn't queer womxn have the right to…
Lindsey Huebner talks to Playwright, Stef Smith as she gears up to bring her adaptation of A Doll's House to the Young Vic stage. They discuss the power that can still be felt from Ibsen's g…
Review: Pepper and Honey, York Theatre Royal3.0starsPepper and Honey is a touching piece that explores the challenging themes of immigration and acceptance in post Brexit-Britain, through th…