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I only booked for Dessert at the Southwark Playhouse because of the extraordinary Alexandra Gilbreath, one of our finest - and somewhat unheralded - actors.
Tom Hartwell's new play FLOOD premieres this summer at London's Tristan Bates Theatre. The premiere production, directed by Georgie Staight for Paper Creatures Theatre during Camden Fringe, …
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The concentric hooped wooden arches framing the proscenium should give you a clue: made from the barrels scraped during the production process
It certainly packs a punch, and this is not solely due to the finesse displayed in the writing. Like an ultrasound revealing Bodies' truly threatening potential, director Jude Christian head…
Expecting a kooky, off the wall play with a burger puppet, turned out to be a much more literal depiction of a 'Mumburger'.
The keeper of the gates decides who is ready for the adventure, who isn't, who deserves to proceed, who is sent home. Once inside the jungle, animal instincts take over.
If you've ever wanted singing tips from a West End star, then this series of posts is the one for you! This post is courtesy of the wonderful Kerry Ellis who will soon be starring as Eve in …
It feels important to recognise what the NT (and the Old Vic) were trying to achieve, though. Queer Theatre looked "at how theatre has charted the LGBT+ experience through a series of rehear…
Sasha Regan's high-spirited, fun-loving production has a wonderfully playful energy about it, and the cast are clearly having a whale of a time, but it isn't too hard to see why the show has…
Following the premiere of his own play Dessert, which premieres this month at London's Southwark Playhouse directed by Trevor Nunn, Oliver Cotton returns to tread the boards himself, starrin…
What I expected to be an impenetrable piece for anyone who does not have children, or has ever desired to become parent, turned out to be 90 minutes of intense and highly relatable theatre-m…
Lisa Spirling will make her directing debut as artistic director of Theatre503 with In Event of Moone Disaster, winner of the theatre's International Playwriting Award 2016.
Clever creative artistry and bountiful talent make for a compelling production of The Coronation of Poppea in this mighty achievement from Lyric Opera of Melbourne.
The bed is the first thing we see. The mess is the second. By the end of the evening, we see just how messy one bed can get.
Guardian critic Michael Billington recently brought back his bizarre alter-ego, a young woman named Helena, for his review of Fatherland at the Manchester International Festival.
In 2011 Beyoncé Knowles proclaimed in a mightily catchy hook that girls run the world, a far cry of course from James Brown's 1966 declaration that "This is a man's world".
It's a very strange feeling when you come across two new plays with almost identical themes " a zeitgeist moment where an idea floating in the ether gets picked up by two playwrights in clos…
Mae West wrote The Drag in 1927 where its frankness about gay lives (and once again, drag ball culture!) scandalised its out-of-town Connecticut and New Jersey audiences so that it never mad…
Harrowing is barely the word to describe this dramatisation of the way in which the Nazis persecuted gay men in Germany before and during World War II.
Following the lives of four gay couples and told predominantly in duologues, it had the slight sense of yet another version of La Ronde as established pairings disintegrate and new ones refo…
McCraney is now an Oscar-winning writer after the phenomenal success of Moonlight (based on one of his unproduced plays) and RuPaul has dragged drag into the mainstream
There was a special currency for Sarah Daniels' Neaptide being the opening play in the #ntQueer season as this 1986 drama was actually the first by a living female playwright at the National…
Have you booked your tickets yet for Anna Simpson's new production of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's The Wasp? Check out these rehearsal room pics and video interviews with director and cast, then g…
Vivienne Franzmann's new play exploring the human cost of surrogacy is directed by Jude Christian. Here is what critics have been saying about it.
