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London's Theatre Lab Company has triumphed with Lisa Evans' dark and atmospheric adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, Jamaica Inn. It's a thrilling production with, at its heart, a l…
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Angela Betzien's psychological thriller is chillingly brought to life in Audrey Sheffield's haunting production.
We are promised a "choreography with words", dozens of mini-scenes showing different experiences in making that one step, across a border, taken from myriad film and TV, familiar and unknown.
Funny how some plays can disappear completely and take a while to be found. When Fin Kennedy won the John Whiting award for this work, not one theatre had responded to its open submission.
The evening's star performance comes from Haydn Gwynne who brings a strength and elegance to Volumnia. Playing the ever loving yet overbearing mother of Coriolanus, she dreams of success and…
Whoever decided to revive Chayefsky's film via a stage production made an astute choice. Network could hardly be more topical or timely in an era that has become infamous for false truths, '…
Rachel Tucker is a masterful performer, both in terms of her faultless vocals and her ability to embody and live every song she sings.
The Wales Millennium Centre has come of age with its first major foray into story-telling on a truly epic scale. Tiger Bay The Musical is the most significant, largest and innovative product…
The team at Oldham Coliseum always deliver a Christmas cracker with their traditional, raucous and cheeky pantomime fun and this year is no exception. The talented team of familiar faces are…
Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, the production keeps the spirit of the film alive by retaining its sense of fun and heart thanks to its explosion of energy and the strength of …
I seem to have had a couple of weeks of creating and being in spaces where extraordinary and unexpected things can happen.
Acclaimed young playwright Carguil Lloyd George Webley brings his new play SHADOWS, exploring the lives of black inmates who have been placed in the same cell in a Birmingham prison, to Lond…
Marking their third anniversary, the Bread & Roses Theatre in Clapham is currently running a poignant play that takes a familiar issue and turns it on its head. Written by Phil Charles …
Continental drama, in this era of Brexit negotiations, seems to be rarer and rarer on British stages. But, luckily, there are some venues which buck this parochial trend.
It remains my favourite of Shakespeare's plays (Much Ado leading as my favourite of his comedies) and I have avidly collected productions the way others might collect stamps.
Fiona Skinner played a blinder as Emma, the uncomfortably pregnant, disillusioned mum-to-be, challenging the usual stereotypes of what pregnancy is meant to feel like. She'd have been welcom…
When I mentioned to friends the concept behind tonight's production " thirty plays are performed within the space of an hour, with the audience deciding which order they're acted in " they w…
2017 marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexual 'behaviour' between consenting adults in the UK, and sixty years since the Wolfenden Report recommended this as the b…
With the two headliners of this show " Will Young and Louise Redknapp - being bona-fide British primetime celebrities and regular tabloid fodder, its no wonder that Edinburgh turned out in f…
Our protagonist is Liam, a 15-year-old from South Shields who has moved to Hull cos his mum is seeing a guy named Barry who lives there. Making fast friends with Caz, the 'other queer studen…
Matthew Campling, a former counsellor, has crafted a psychologically dense and often intense dialogue between broken people; pain catalysed by an allegation of sexual assault.
Got your tickets yet for Troupe Theatre's revival of JM Barrie's rarely seen 1917 play Dear Brutus yet? Watch this spellbinding video, including interviews with director Jonathan O'Boyle and…
Given a non-custodial sentence, 17-year-old Becca (Holly Donovan) has to spend to her community service cleaning in a hospice. Initially getting off on the wrong foot, Becca ends up striking…
Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, James Graham's Ink and the National's revival of Sondheim's Follies dominate the shortlists for the 2017 Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
