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Photos: Michael Sheen and More in Rehearsal For OUR TOWN
by Stephi Wild - Dec 19, 2025

All new rehearsal photos have been released for Our Town, starring Michael Sheen as the Stage Manager and directed by Francesca Goodridge. Check out the photos here!

Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Barbican Theatre
by Debbie Gilpin - Dec 17, 2025

“And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” Following rave reviews, the RSC’s most recent production of Twelfth Night finally makes its way to London as part of the Barbican’s winter season. Directed by Prasanna Puwanarajah, it sees Samuel West, Freema Agyeman, Michael Grady-Hall and others reprise their roles for this limited run - but does this “midsummer madness” feel at home in the festive season?

Photos: First Look at the Cast of TWELFTH NIGHT at the Royal Shakespeare Company
by Stephi Wild - Dec 8, 2025

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released new photos of the Twelfth Night cast ahead of the show's first performance at the Barbican. Check out the photos here!

Photos: A CHRISTMAS CAROL At Quarry Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 28, 2025

Leeds Playhouse has released captivating new photos from its festive staging of A Christmas Carol brimming with warmth, wonder and seasonal spirit. Directed by award-winning Amy Leach and adapted by Deborah McAndrew, this enchanting reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale runs in the Quarry Theatre until 17 January 2026.

Photos: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Shakespeare’s Globe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2025

Headlong has released production images of their new production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which is now playing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

Review: PORN PLAY, Royal Court
by Franco Milazzo - Nov 14, 2025

Ani has a problem. Well, two problems, but they are on very friendly terms: she’s addicted to hardcore porn and her boyfriend Liam has had enough of seeing it when they're in bed. She doesn’t care so she cums, he goes, and - even before the door slams - she’s back on her phone scrolling through an endless feed of videos.

Photos: EBONY SCROOGE in Rehearsal at Sadler’s Wells East
by Stephi Wild - Nov 3, 2025

All new rehearsal photos have been released for Ebony Scrooge, the brand-new take on A Christmas Carol, the hip hop theatre show by ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.

Review: HEDDA, Orange Tree Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 28, 2025

There can be a tendancy to eye-roll at the prospect of a new interpretation of a classic play. However, Tanika Gupta's new take on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Orange Tree is a genuinely innovative and fascinating take on the tale of the destructive nature of manipulation and the complexities of marriage.

Photos: Tanika Gupta's HEDDA at Orange Tree Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 27, 2025

Orange Tree Theatre has released production photos for HEDDA, a new play by Tanika Gupta, inspired by Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, directed by Hettie Macdonald.

Review Roundup: MACBETH, starring Sam Heughan and Lia Williams
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 27, 2025

Directed by Daniel Raggett, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s brings a new version of Macbeth to the small studio space in Stratford-upon-Avon. Starring Sam Heughan, best known for his role in the series Outlander, and Lia Williams as Lady Macbeth. This staging imagines the play in a gangland pub in 20th-century Glasgow, with its characters as violent criminals.

Review: MACBETH, starring Sam Heughan and Lia Williams
by Cindy Marcolina - Oct 26, 2025

Something wicked this way comes: it’s another exciting high-concept Shakespeare. Director Daniel Raggett moves the action of the Scottish Play to a safe-house pub in the midst of a racketeering war. Succession meets Sons of Anarchy with a hint of The Sopranos in this daring, new production. With a hypnotic tempo that’s almost cinematic in nature, Raggett leaves you on the edge of your seat, gasping for air, mouth gaping and eyes wide. It’s Macbeth like you’ve never seen it before. Is it an extravagant idea on paper? It sure is. Does it work? Flawlessly and explosively so.

Review: HOT MESS, Southwark Playhouse Elephant
by Mica Blackwell - Oct 23, 2025

Godfrey and Coote's sophomore offering far from lives up to its name. With a music and book of charm and wit carried by two West End heavyweights, Hot Mess proves you can portray serious issues with a touch of fun. Earth and Humanity's relationship may be messy and complicated, but I see this musical's future as clear and bright.

Photos: Royal Shakespeare Company Releases First Look At Sam Heughan And Lia Williams In MACBETH
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 16, 2025

The Royal Shakespeare Company has released first-look photos of Daniel Raggett’s gripping new production of Macbeth, running at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, from Thursday, October 9 through Saturday, December 6, 2025.

Photos: Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jennifer Westfeldt in Rehearsals for ASSEMBLED PARTIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 9, 2025

Hampstead Theatre has shared a glimpse into the rehearsal room for the UK premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Assembled Parties directed by Blanche McIntyre and starring Tracy-Ann Oberman and Jennifer Westfeldt.

Review: 2:22 A GHOST STORY, Theatre Royal Brighton
by Caroline Cronin - Oct 7, 2025

Four years on from its premiere at the Noel Coward Theatre, 2:22 A Ghost Story continues to unsettle audiences across the UK and internationally. The celebrity casting in this iteration of the UK tour adds a new dynamic in the form of real-life couple Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton.

Review: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Shakespeare's Globe
by Debbie Gilpin - Oct 4, 2025

One of the least performed plays in Shakespeare’s canon, and also one of the most aptly labelled as a ‘problem play’; Troilus and Cressida is ostensibly about the romance between these two Trojans, but in reality much of the play focuses on the backdrop to their love - the ongoing siege of Troy by the Greeks. This production in the open-air Globe Theatre is the final new show of the summer season.

Review: INTERVIEW, Starring Robert Sean Leonard, Riverside Studios
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Aug 29, 2025

Originally a 2003 film by Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, Interview was remade into an English-speaking version starring Sienna Miller and Steve Buscemi in 2007 after Van Gogh's death. Now directed and adapted for the stage by Teunkie Van Der Sluijs, Paten Hughes and Robert Sean Leonard star in this tense two-hander which never quite reaches its potential.

Review: 2:22 A GHOST STORY, King's Theatre
by Natalie O'Donoghue - Aug 26, 2025

Following seven West End seasons, a record-breaking UK and Ireland tour and thirty productions across the globe, the stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story now comes to Glasgow.

Review: TWELFTH NIGHT, Shakespeare's Globe
by Clementine Scott - Aug 20, 2025

‘This is Illyria,’ bellows the sea captain conveying the shipwrecked Viola to shore, in what is surely one of Shakespeare’s most straightforward opening lines. In Robin Belfield’s new production, that triumphant declaration serves as an introduction not just to Twelfth Night’s fictional Balkan setting, but also to the rich visual universe Belfield has conjured up onstage.

Photos: First Look at 2:22 - A GHOST STORY New UK Tour Cast
by Stephi Wild - Aug 13, 2025

Ahead of opening night at Manchester Opera House, all new production images have been released of the 2025 cast for the UK tour of 2:22 - A Ghost Story.