Review: TITUS ANDRONICUS, Hampstead Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - Sep 23, 2025
Hampstead Theatre has seen its fair share of gore. Even so, Max Webster’s Titus Andronicus leaves the boards drenched in something more caustic than fake blood: the acid tang of a civilisation eating itself. Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy is a grotesque feast, and here it’s served up with relish.
Video: C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART Series Trailer
by Josh Sharpe - Jan 16, 2025
The four-episode HBO Original limited series C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART debuts THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. Watch the trailer now!
Orange Tree Theatre Reveals Further Information For 2024 Programming
by Stephi Wild - Apr 23, 2024
Orange Tree Theatre has announced further information for its 2024 Autumn season. The season features world premières of David Edgar's Here in America and Hannah Khalil's adaptation of Treasure Island alongside a revival of Rajiv Joseph's Guards at the Taj and Jane Asher joining Oliver Ford Davies to star in Twelfth Night.
Ian Charleson Awards 2023 Nominations Announced
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Apr 24, 2023
Nominees have been revealed for this year’s Ian Charleson Awards.
The annual awards celebrate actors under 30 who have performed in a classical role, which is defined as a play written before 1918.
Photos: World Stage Premiere Of HAMNET Opens In The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 14, 2023
Last night (Wednesday 12 April), the Royal Shakespeare Company and Neal Street Productions, in association with Hera Pictures, welcomed special guests to the world stage premiere of Hamnet, which opened its sold-out run in the newly restored Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. See photos from inside opening night!
Cast Announced For SALT-WATER MOON at Finborough Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Nov 28, 2022
In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, the UK premiere of David French's classic Salt-Water Moon opens at the Finborough Theatre for a four week limited season on Tuesday, 3 January 2023 (Press Nights: Thursday, 5 January 2023 and Friday, 6 January 2023 at 7.30pm). It's a splendid moon-filled night in Coley's Point in 1926.
These are `Happy Days' Indeed for Trevor Nunn
by Matt Wolf - Jun 21, 2021
The 60th anniversary production of Beckett's masterwork Happy Days, newly opened at west London's Riverside Studios, is indistinguishable from the keen eye of its director, Trevor Nunn, who across more than six decades has contributed many of the most significant (not to mention quite a few of the best) productions in my experience. We look back at a seismic career and select five productions for the ages.
VIDEO: Royal Shakespeare Company Releases SONNETS IN SOLITUDE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 19, 2020
The Royal Shakespeare Company today released Sonnets in Solitude, a selection of Shakespeare's sonnets self-recorded by RSC actors while in lockdown. Many of the actors were working with the RSC at the time of the theatre's temporary closure on 17 March and have been unable to perform or rehearse since.
Full Cast Announced For A MUSEUM IN BAGHDAD At The Kiln Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Feb 3, 2020
Following the world premiere at Stratford a?"upon-Avon, Kiln Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company today announce the full cast for the London run of A Museum in Baghdad. Director Erica Whyman reunites David Birrell (Professor Leonard Woolley), Houda Echouafni (Layla Hassan), Emma Fielding (Gertrude Bell), Ali Gadema (Kidnapper, Prime Minister), Rendah Heywood (Ghalia Hussein), Zed Josef (Salim), Nadi Kemp-Sayfi (Nasiya), Debbie Korley (Sam York), Riad Richie (Mohammed Abdullah), and Rasoul Saghir (Abu Zaman). The production opens at Kiln Theatre on 28 April, with previews from 22 April, and runs until 23 May.
BWW Review: MARY'S BABIES, Jermyn Street Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Mar 23, 2019
Mary Barton founded one of the first fertility clinics. She pioneered artificial insemination and worked within the confined of tabooed subjects, coming in aid of those married couples who were unable to conceive a child and going as far as destroying medical records in order to help them. Her husband, Dr Bertold Wiesner, was probably the main sperm donor and he's thought to have fathered many of the 1,500 children born thanks to Barton.