From the opening moments, Skin Tight bursts with passion and energy. The physicality of the opening sequence seduces and intrigues, creating a disarming sense of disorientation when the acto…
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the premiere of Get Up, Stand Up!, the new musical based on the life and music of reggae legend Bob Marley. It's running at…
National Theatre Live will return with a new programme of four productions to be broadcast to audiences worldwide in cinemas, in January.
After becoming a fan of their online comedies during lockdown, I chat with Northern Comedy Theatre artistic director Shaun Chambers and writer David Spicer as they transfer their Zoom hit Do…
Isley Lynn's complex and clever play, albatross, is revived by the represent theatre company as the first of two productions in their inaugural season. The stage at the Playground The…
Supernatural thriller 2:22 - A Ghost Story returns for a new West End season at the Gielgud Theatre. After breaking box office records for a new play at the Noel Coward Theatre, the show wil…
Tiny Room's LOOP continues its debut tour this weekend, with original cast member David Richardson returning to the play about "burnt bridges and breakdowns" set during a pub lock-in. We tal…
The musical makeover of Indecent Proposal officially premiered last night at London's Southwark Playhouse. Travel back to Atlantic City in the 1980s with our first-look gallery of production…
On LoveLondonLoveCulture, Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the West End transfer of new comedy The Shark Is Broken, now booking at the Ambassadors Theatre until 15 January 2022.
After its Covid cancellations for the past two years, the annual VAULT Festival has announced it will return to its Waterloo home in the new year. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the 2022 …
Following on from the brilliant Emilia, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play Mum is a powerfully bracing experience at the Soho Theatre "Motherhood's not for everyone" Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's Mu…
The Jamie Lloyd Company has announced its next West End residency, this time at the Harold Pinter Theatre, where James McAvoy will reprise his Cyrano de Bergerac and, at last, Emilia Clarke …
Philip Ridley himself recommended that Lidless Theatre mount the tenth-anniversary revival of his instant classic Tender Napalm. The result, according to the critics, is "first-rate" and "an…
This new coproduction between Graeae and Tamasha is not perfect, but it offers a moving insight into ritual and belief.
At more than three hours, The Tragedy of Macbeth stretches the patience at the Almeida Theatre, despite strong work from Saoirse Ronan and James McArdle.
I'm always amazed at the level of creativity that goes into putting on a show in a small and intimate space " particularly when it is quite physical. This is certainly one of the incredible …
Heathers the Musical returns to its original London home at The Other Palace, opening on 25 November 2021, for a limited season until 20 February 2022.
So many questions to keep you engaged in this new iteration of an ancient legend. Although the actors apply their craft with commitment and skill, you are left sometimes confused and not cle…
Halloween season is once more upon us and the London Horror Festival has plenty of macabre productions to satisfy the most dedicated aficionado. One show that stands out from the rest online…
In a previous blog, I talked of the excitement at waking up in our industry. But any time we bounce forward, we have to accept that we live on a rollercoaster. And the rushes to the bottom a…
Jack Butterworth as Jerry Travers and co-star Billie-Kay as Dale Tremont dance their way through the confusion of mistaken identity as to whether they will or won't get together.
This is a labour of love. Hilary Mantel has adapted The Mirror and the Light, the third novel of her Tudor trilogy, in collaboration with actor Ben Miles.
It's fascinating to see a play that, 35 years after its UK premiere, has the courage of its convictions, a drama that stays true to its characters with no soapy or simplistic conclusion that…
Stephen Smith of Threedumb Theatre is something of a Gothic horror aficionado, especially when it comes to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Although David Storey is a somewhat forgotten writer, wildly successful from the late 1960s to the late '70s as both a playwright and novelist, but then just as suddenly out of fashion, Home…