After Invisible Me this month, playwright Bren Gosling returns to New Wimbledon Studio next month with his powerful new drama Proud, which was longlisted for the prestigious Papatango Prize …
Two actors on stage describe their characters as if the direction in the playtext is part of the script. It is the first of many quirks in Aleshea Harris' dark revenge comedy Is God Is.
We round up the reviews for the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre co-production of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
First presented at the Royal Court in 1976 and last seen in London in a starry 2008 revival directed by the author, Peter Gill's knotty, elegiac text is a dense, tense jumble of memory play,…
This past weekend saw the return of the much-loved West End Live in Trafalgar Square. A free festival for theatre lovers, the event has increased in popularity each year (I still remember th…
You know how it is, when a ticket to Hamilton falls into your lap, you can't really say no to this… So a return to the Victoria Palace Theatre, my first since this behemoth of a show actua…
Rich Watkin's one-man Disney musical parody Happily Ever Poofter is an 'exquisite and energetic masterpiece', and its three year international 'tour de force' comes to an end this Friday 24 …
During the 20th century, absurdism and surrealism surfaced in literature to make pertinent points about human nature and 'the real world'. Prime examples include Franz Kafka's The Metamorpho…
Alex Lodge has joined the cast of Steven Dexter's hit immersive production of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin. We caught up with Lodge to find out what the show means to him and how excited he is …
After two critically acclaimed Off-West End seasons, Just Some Theatre return to London with a brand-new show, hilariously dark interactive murder mystery show The Killer Question. Which act…
Twenty-five years after its first performance at the Rep, Ayub Khan Din's comedy about a British-Pakistani family in 1970s Salford returns home to Birmingham. In Iqbal Khan's production for …
It's nearly time for the world premiere of Penetration by Carolyn Lloyd-Davies which runs at The Cockpit Theatre from 22 September to 9th October 2021. My Theatre Mates was invited behind th…
Highly recommended, but I wouldn't bank on getting a good nights sleep afterwards. Evil in plain sight is a real chiller, and that's exactly what Wohl is serving up here. Disconcerting, esse…
This ingenious adaptation is a fabulous, exhilarating slapstick romp combining theatrical invention and wonderfully comic performances.
American playwright Aleshea Harris' dazzlingly satirical 2018 extravaganza is about two women seeking justice and getting even, and it comes to the Royal Court from New York, trailing shouts…
The twin themes of social justice and climate activism are explored in this piece from Fehinti Balogun/Complicité.
Salisbury Playhouse reopens its doors with September in the Rain by John Godber. Liz (Nicola Sloane) and Jack Munroe (Ian Kelsey) fondly reflect on holiday memoirs from their thirty years of…
Educational and richly entertaining, NW Trilogy emerges, in Taio Lawson and Susie McKenna's vibrant production as a sparky, moving valentine to what is traditionally one of the capital's mos…
This cinematic adaptation of Everybody's Talking About Jamie is fabulously enjoyable, led by a fine performance by Max Harwood.
When Grease hit our cinemas back in 1978 I was a wide-eyed 13 year old enthralled by the story, the music and the Grease feeling. So much so as I went to see the film six times. This was a t…
I remember seeing Shelagh Stephenson's contemporary classic at the Hampstead, when this venue was still an ageing prefab, and enjoying Terry Johnson's racy staging,
Brought to life by two theatre actors on their way to a big career and finally united at the Old Vic, Ferran and Thallon are great now and are only going to get better " make sure you're the…
Rosemary Ashe is 'the songstress with the mostest', and her performance 'rules over all she surveys' in Upstairs at the Gatehouse's revival of Irving Berlin's classic Broadway musical Call M…
Wildly funny new musical The Pleasure Garden takes a peek through the bushes to discover the bawdy history of Vauxhall's history as a hedonistic playground. It premieres at Vauxhall's own Ab…
Hitting the highway until late 2022, after several staggering runs in Toronto, New York and London, Bat Out Of Hell returned to its proverbial Manchester home this weekend.