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Raizada's dialogue is unflinching in the way she captures speech that symbiotically interweaves between everyday conversations and those portrayed on TV as if both were entwined and feeding …
Steven Berkoff's masterpiece EAST will open the new year at London's King's Head Theatre, where it made its London debut in 1975. The new production, directed by Life According to Saki's Jes…
Rory Kinnear takes the title role in Young Marx, Nicholas Hytner's inaugural production at London's new large-scale venue, the Bridge Theatre, where it runs until 31 December 2017. Here Love…
Mexican company Los Colochos Teatro not only knows how to utilize Shakespeare's Scottish Play in order to tell a story of the here and now, but also uses human imagination in a simple, yet c…
Harry Blumenau's production at the Union manages to shed the show's previous blunders, succeeding in telling a harrowing and touching story with tenderness and care in a production that is f…
It's all elegantly if slightly laboriously done in studied anachronistic style, delivered facing out to the audience as if emphasising precisely its decorative home.
The Lyric Hammersmith has announced their 2018 season comprising a new adaptation, an innovative Shakespeare staging, a major festival production, a stunning revival, an award-winning contem…
Brand-new London theatre from the two Nicks is wonderful, but its first show is disappointing.
IIn light of recent reports of abuse, it has become apparent that many of us have failed to engage with the dark truths that hide beneath the surface of of the theatre industry. Action needs…
Broadway stars Robert Cuccioli and Glory Crampton will reprise their New York roles in the UK premiere of Rothschild & Sons, which runs at London's Park Theatre from 24 January to 17 Fe…
Organised by Stumble Dance Circus director, Mish Weaver, the Serious Circus symposium is the first iteration of an ongoing project to create a network of support and practitioners who are us…
As we enter the Arcola main stage, we are presented with a hotel room in midtown Manhattan circa 1954. Albert Einstein sits on the bed going over some notes on his legal pad.
Avoiding the stereotypes of circus nostalgia, the show nonetheless manages to use the tropes of classical circus in a way that feels fresh and resonant to contemporary youngsters.
Tea Break Theatre's play begins with a 'National Trust tour guide' announcing we will be given a tour of the property prior to the play. It soon became apparent the 'tour guide' was not all …
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller's great tragedy of loyalty and miss-placed love in the tenements of the waterfront slums of 1950s New York is given a solid production from the EUTC at …
The programme bears an image of a shirtless Fox with a sexy woman draped across him. He's looking past her, the physical definition of agonised. This picture promises passion, Greek drama pe…
Our Fathers, at the Traverse to Saturday and then on tour, has a great deal of talent behind it. The end result is amusing and entertaining but ultimately somewhat too frothy.
The present meets the past in Son of a Preacher Man, where 3 lonely hearts go in search of an old record store in Soho, which, during the 1960's, the legendary Preacher Man was famed for giv…
Ali is a respected wife and counsellor. But her harmonious life is torn apart when a young male ex-client make allegations of sexual misconduct against her. These allegations go to an Ethica…
It might be too early for pantomime, but it's never too soon to see Mel Brooks' ingenious updating of Young Frankenstein delivered as a spoof both of the horror movie genre and of the theatr…
However, there is a bit more depth to this musical than just the songs, as King's story is that of a young and ambitious teenage girl, who never set out to be a singer and who was as surpris…
His new play, produced by Eastlake Productions, written entirely in verse is a candid one-man show switches seamlessly between the innocence of childhood and the very real struggle of being…
Memorialising the famous jam session of 1956, where fate brought together legends Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis, Million Dollar Quartet is an energeti…
What a scrummy treat this new musical is! With songs that are like a box of chocolate themselves: full of treats and unexpected surprises and a genuinely heartfelt story that celebrates huma…
MKEC Productions have been carving out a niche for themselves in conjuring fringe productions of lesser-known musicals and in Charles Miller and Kevin Hammonds' When Midnight Strikes, direct…
