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Emanate production are bringing The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays, three plays by writers Amy Rosenthal, Alexis Zegerman, and Ryan Craig, to Soho Theatre. Following its inaugural production at the Kiln Theatre last year, Emanate have forged a space for Jewish voices to shine a spotlight on and celebrate modern Jewish stories in theatre.

Blood is thicker than water and love is stronger than hate. There is a deep sentimental heart beating at the core of Michael Wynne’s new play that asks us what it means to connect as a family in our increasingly absurd lives. 

A sombre warning against dogmatism adherence has resonances today. It's just curiously unclear what they are.

George Michael: Singer, songwriter, LGBTQ icon, and tragic hero? Kissing a Fool, an interdisciplinary Queer Cabaret show about the Wham! frontman might just have you revaluating everything you thought you knew about your mum’s favourite teenage heartthrob.  

The world premiere of Isley Lynn’s The Swell is a head scratching affair. It’s a short sharp 90 minutes, but there’s a lot to get your head around. Buckle up.

The tables are turned on two twentieth century playwrights who find themselves trapped in a hybrid of their own plays.

An atmospheric story of a group of trapped explorers at the mercy of mother nature, the UK premiere of Joby Talbot’s Everest has a chillingly eerie resonance.

If there were an award for most unpredictably bonkers play of the year this would be the top contender. But there is method in the madness. Roll with it. You will be rewarded. Dance with its bombastic weirdness but fasten your seatbelt first.

A lacklustre central performance shifts the focus towards Charlotte's tragedy instead of Werther's.

The personal and the political become one in this sweater vested whirlwind of a play

BroadwayWorld caught up Beverley Klein and Teddy Kempner, two of the newest cast members, as they take over as Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider.

A steroided neo-liberal dystopia is the backdrop for this literal and a metaphorical journey of self-discovery.

An existential triptych of monologues slaps the audience in the face and expects them to apologise

Adele Thomas' new production is a rollicking clash of carnivalesque weirdness and heartfelt desire.

Maureen Lipman's one woman show traces a Holocaust survivor's journey to find home

Well intentioned but generic study of grief

Admirable inquiry into the morality of mob short changed by its own self-indulgence

Deborah Warner's new production dives head first into the Lars Von Trier pool of paranoia

With the swashbuckling zeal of a rowdy tavern brawl and all the brash bravado you can shake a bulging cod piece at, the Sean Holmes helmed The Comedy of Errors crashes onto the Globe stage to start the summer season with a bang.

BroadwayWorld caught up with Emily Fairn, the breakout star of BBC's The Responder as she makes her theatrical debut, along with Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges. We spoke about getting a leg-up in the industry, perfecting a Wyoming accent and returning to the stage after her television work.