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Kevin Armento's Devil With the Blue Dress at the Bunker Theatre is a brutal look back at the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The Country Wife is a little long and felt arduous to watch at times but the conversation between the 1920s and modernity and the clever use of humour and staging make it a fun night out at …
Selena Fillinger's 2017 American play Faceless, inspired by a true court case about a 19-year-old Denver court case who tried to fly to Syria to join Isis in 2014, gets its European premiere…
First seen in Edinburgh and Chichester in 2014, David Haig's acclaimed Pressure finally arrives at London's Park Theatre where it runs for a month or so before heading into the West End for …
Teddy is a surprisingly gritty musical that knows how to pack a punch and is equally entertaining as it is engaging. It literally leaves you dancing from the theatre.
If you want thoroughly entertaining, which requires no thought, just the ability to laugh, then this is the show for you. Young Frankenstein is a monstrously fun night out.
Absolutely no disrespect to Terence Wilton and James Byng who currently tell this ghost story so well, it just feels like the time is now is now to expand The Woman in Black's horizon.
This is a stylish, yet thoroughly accessible, production that is full of energy and a joyous satirical thrust that never obscures the real human emotions at the story's core. Let's hope that…
It's frustrating when people don't subscribe to your point of view, but you've just got to deal with it. Love the things you love and support them to the hilt, just draw the line at attackin…
There's a lot to enjoy in this production of Crazy for You which brings a great deal of talent to the stage and shows it off well. It's just that it gets caught up in the fiddly bits of the …
Love Me Now nails the experiences of modern dating and casual sex from a female perspective, but in this case it makes a statement rather than initiates a dialogue. This certainly isn't a pr…
Siubhan Harrison stars as Alithea in the 1920s play The Country Wife which plays at the Southwark Playhouse, London until 21 April. Siubhan told me about her role in the show, the 1920s worl…
Ruthless! The Musical has been impressively cast, with a company whose voices and performances are well suited to the style.
The musical will be best savoured with a large gin alongside a g…
Brief Encounter is a love letter to both film and theatre in which Rice combines elements of David Lean's 1946 film with the 1936 Noël Coward play Still Life that it was based on, and the…
We want a fishing boat! We're dreaming of lazy sunny afternoons on the water after scrolling through the rehearsal room gallery for the upcoming European premiere of Audrey Cefaly's award-wi…
The magnificent The Inheritance is an impressive play from Matthew Lopez that examines the tangled lives of a close group of gay men living in contemporary New York, charting their ups and d…
Pressure has plenty of drama and intensity to make for a brilliant production " but could use some editing to sharpen the ending up more and to keep its focus. But it is undeniably a fascina…
Former artistic director of the Young Vic, director and playwright David Lan will be presented with the Special Award at the Olivier Awards 2018 ceremony on Sunday 8 April at London's Royal …
Both George Parker and Molly Chesworth give excellent performances in Tedd, at times it feels like they are acting as if their lives depend on it, such is the palpable intensity.
I have history with The Country Wife. As a drama student I learned the role of Harcourt in 24 hours when illness devastated the cast at the Nuffield Theatre Lancaster. The reviewer from the …
Verdi's Luisa Miller may be on lower rotation than many of his other works, but the casting of three operatic superstars presents the work in its very best light.
ComedienneTwayna Mayne spoke to Love London Love Culture about her forthcoming show Black Girl, playing at the Soho Theatre from 7 to 9 June 2018.
One of the things I love about the Glass Splinters evenings is the variety of hitherto 'unknown' stories that are unearthed. Far from being recent participants in world events, Glass Splinte…
What the discussion about Julius Caesar led me to conclude was that in fact, the best thing about this production was that it offered you a choice. A means to experience this semi-immersive …
Ahead of the UK premiere this month at the West End's Trafalgar Studios, Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon catches up with director Jonathan O'Boyle, whose other recent work includes…
