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Imagine a domestic black comedy written by Martin McDonagh. It's a bit of an over-simplification, but that's kind of the flavour of Erica Murray's debut play The Cat's Mother at The Vaults.
Stephanie Jacob's new play Again at the Trafalgar Studios could be a traditional comedy-drama about the trials and tribulations of a family, but the writer employs a clever dramaturgical dev…
Ian Bonar's consummate skill as a performer in Be Prepared at The Vaults means you're deeply touched but the overall impact proves a little relentless, even if this is the intention.
If you've seen Mamma Mia! before, go again If you've never seen it… GO! It's the ultimate feel-good musical and you won't be disappointed.
Think of England at The Vaults is an unforgettable experience that transports you back to war-torn London with ease, crafted and performed to perfection " the show of the festival so far.
Barrie Kosky directs this new production of Bizet's opera with Anna Goryachova and Gaëlle Arquez in the title role. Carmen continues at the Royal Opera House until 16 March. Love London L…
Have you booked yet for the UK premiere of Rothschild & Sons? This reimagining of The Rothschilds, the last musical co-written by Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway legends Jerry Bock and S…
Mad as Hell's greatest insight and piece of biographical excavation is that Peter Finch needed to feel his wife Eletha Barrett's absence to hit the mark of the tortured mad preacher of Paddy…
Got your tickets yet for the London premiere of Alex Packer's BALLISTIC? This Edinburgh Fringe hit, inspired by real-life atrocities including "toxic male" Elliot Rodger's killing spree in 2…
With more clear-sighted and affecting work like this, Katie Arnstein's Bicycles & Fish could well be a voice to add to the list of Oprah Winfrey and Jo Brand. Definitely recommended.
All Good Artists Are Dead returns with its second show as a collective: Joy is a wide-ranging and stretchy exploration of diaspora and sex. Dina Gordon performs as Joy, a woman who contains …
With scientists speculating that advances in computing will lead to artificial intelligence, it's not so hard to believe that in the near future, there will be an attempt to create 'articial…
Long Day's Journey Into Night is a titanic piece of writing (and a production that is now even longer than it was in Bristol) but when it is of this quality, it really doesn't matter.
Hampstead Theatre has announced the full company for Tony Kushner's and Jeanine Tesori's musical Caroline, or Change, following its critically acclaimed run at Chichester Festival Theatre la…
It's hard to know how to reframe the complexities of envy and irrational hate in youthful terms for Othello at the Union Theatre, but though Cornelissen doesn't always quite manage it, the r…
Most families have a story or three, the kind of tales that go down in folklore, destined to be repeated at family events no matter embarrassing for the parent/sibling/etc involved.
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Sunday 11 March 2018, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock will talk to the writer, director and cast of world premiere play After the Ball. Go…
Catherine Lucie's gripping psychological thriller The Moor at the Old Red Lion Theatre leaves the audience on the edge of its seat from beginning to end.
It's conspicuously worthy to try to combine elements of poverty, migration, feminism, dysfunction and dementia but neither Simon Longman's tedious time-skipping script nor Vicky Featherstone…
Writer/performer Ian Bonar enters with a portable keyboard/organ. This immediately makes me think of James Rowland's 100 Different Words For Love, which was performed at The Vaults last year…
Be Prepared at the VAULT Festival is a truly compelling one-man play, showing the individual nature of grief " a very clever production.
For a variety of all too female reasons, I wasn't much looking forward to going out to the theatre to see Bicycles & Fish at The Vaults. But I did. And I laughed, I cried, and at the en…
Less than a week left to see the world premiere of The Ungrateful Biped, which marks actor Rupert Graves' directorial debut. Have you booked yet? This modern take on Dostoyevsky's Notes from…
Boys at The Vaults is exploration of manhood, of masculinity, of what it means to be a man of colour in the UK today.
