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Recently nominated for an 'Off West End award for Best Male Performance' in the play Sid at the Arts theatre, Dario Coates is also recognised for Coronation Street, ITV's Endeavour and Anoth…
Walking into the tiny Finborough theatre for this revived Edwardian play is very much like stepping back in time. Music hall classics play as the audience assembles, and the pub's own orname…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Elsa, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 " 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer and actor Isobel Rogers.
San Francisco-based playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s hit Off-Broadway black comedy BOOM, the most produced play in the US in 2009 and 2010, receives its UK premiere at London’…
Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes are names pretty much guaranteed to make any theatregoing regular pay attention, both are synonymous with high quality productions (Butterworth's Jerusalem reg…
Love London Love Culture spoke to Cradeaux Alexander about the upcoming world premiere of his play Funeral Meats, playing at London's King's Head Theatre from 8 to 13 August 2017.
A middle-aged, gay Welshman contemplates the English class he teaches in Hong Kong. Amongst the students is Windy, the Chinese woman with whom he shares his bed.
In the same rehearsal venue as us are the kids of School Of Rock " a show that is high on my list to see. Every morning at 10 and every evening at 6 you see the real heroes, no not the kids …
Revival is a strange word. It suggests something rescued from its deathbed and shocked into fresh vigour by an infusion of talent, or money, or inspiration. In the case of I Loved Lucy, th…
While the production standards and much of the work by the cast will be sure to please crowds of theatregoers, there is a significant missed opportunity in the absence of an engaging and log…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Jane Doe, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 " 28 August 2017. I caught up with actor Karin McCracken.
A double bill of monologues from writers Dominic Grace and Lesley Ross, performed respectively by Luke Adamson and Gregory Ashton form the structure of Odd Man Out. Both plays are vastly dif…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Scribble, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 " 27 August 2017. I caught up with director Amy Gilmartin.
Two strangers have met for an internet-arranged one-night stand in Belfast. Janet is dressed as a mouse. Declan is married. In those awkward moments after the sex they talk and argue, exposi…
That was about the end of the world. This is about being watched, being revolutionary and being in the firing line. It's also about pushing that button, the big red one that destroys lives i…
Sadly, despite a few crisp one-liners and a catchy title I'm surprised was never used elsewhere, Twilight Song emerges as a frail Rattiganesque slice of sixties' repressed sexuality contrast…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Derailed, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 14 " 28 August 2017. I caught up with Little Soldier Productions.
Bechdel Theatre's recent initiative Bechdel Testing Life asks women to send in recorded conversations from their everyday lives that pass the test. These are then given to playwrights, who u…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 3 " 27 August 2017. I caught up with writers Jemima Foxtrot and Lucy Allan.
The adaption is set in a private school camping trip which I must admit, I did not realise until I read it in the programme. I feel the production was supposed to be contextualised within a …
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Cathy, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 2 " 26 August 2017. I caught up with actor Hayley Wareham.
Bechdel Theatre is looking at the Bechdel Test in life. The test is usually associated with the screen following Alison Bechdel's 1985 comic strip looking at the failure of women to find a t…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Mother's Ruin, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 2 " 27 August 2017. I caught up with actor Maeve Marsden.
It's a busy play, packed full of sorrow and soul, rueful realism and tentative hope, and is blessed by a crack cast filled with the likes of Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Ron Cook, Deb…
Next up in our Spotlight feature is Sugar Baby, which plays Edinburgh Festival from 4 " 27 August 2017. I caught up with writer Alan Harris.
