Review: NOUGHTS & CROSSES, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - Jul 9, 2025
Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses has long been something of a YA classic. Rather than dreaming up a sci-fi future, however, this story presents instead an uncanny alternate present – one where discrimination and racial violence are worse than ever, but it's Black people who are the privileged ones.
Review: THE HOUSE PARTY, Rose Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Mar 8, 2025
Sex, power, gender and class: August Strindberg's Miss Julie may have first been performed in 1889, but its themes live on. In Laura Lomas's vivid reimagining of the play, The House Party, a seemingly happy event becomes the chaotic centre for a night where misogyny and the insidious creep of social media has a devastating impact upon the lives of the teenagers involved.
Video: Highlights From THE NUTCRACKER at Polka Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 29, 2024
See video highlights from The Nutcracker, a co-production between Polka Theatre and Olivier award-winners Little Bulb (Wolf Witch Giant Fairy), in Polka's Main Theatre running through 26 January 2025. Tickets are on sale now.
Review Roundup: KENREX at Sheffield Theatres
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 7, 2024
Sheffield Theatres is presenting KENREX- part True Crime, part Western, with a foot stomping live Americana soundtrack, KENREX is devised by Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian. See what the critics are saying...
Cast Set For THE NUTCRACKER at Polka Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 26, 2024
Polka Theatre announced the cast for their upcoming production of THE NUTCRACKER, featuring a mix of seasoned performers and fresh talent. The show will run from November 15 to December 30, 2024.
Creative Team Set for KENREX at Sheffield Theatres
by Stephi Wild - Sep 20, 2024
Sheffield Theatres has announced the full creative team behind the gripping, one-man thrill ride KENREX. Part True Crime, part Western, with a foot stomping live Americana soundtrack, KENREX is devised by Jack Holden and Ed Stambollouian; the creators of the Olivier-nominated Cruise.
Photos: THE HOT WING KING at the National Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jul 18, 2024
The National Theatre has released first look production photos for the UK premiere of Katori Hall’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hot Wing King. Check out the photos here!
Photos: In Rehearsal for THE HOUSE PARTY At Chichester's Minerva Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 18, 2024
Laura Lomas’s The House Party spins Strindberg’s Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today’s generation. Directed by Holly Race Roughan, in a co-production with Headlong in association with Frantic Assembly, it runs at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre from 3 May – 1 June, with a press night on Friday 10 May. See photos from inside the rehearsal room below!
Review Roundup: Did Keeley Hawes Impress the Critics in THE HUMAN BODY?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Feb 28, 2024
Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport, make their long-awaited returns to the London stage in The Human Body; a story of political and private passions from writer Lucy Kirkwood. In his final production as Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Michael Longhurst directs together with Ann Yee, with whom he previously collaborated on Next to Normal and Caroline, or Change.
Review: THE HUMAN BODY, Donmar Warehouse
by Cindy Marcolina - Feb 28, 2024
The departing artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse is going out in a blaze of glory. A starry cast leads Lucy Kirkwood’s latest play, a period piece that, curiously, ties in perfectly with Rufus Norris’ current venture south of the river, Nye. The further end of the 40s has Shropshire shackled by austerity. An engaged member of the Labour party, socialist GP Iris is lobbying in support of Nye Bevan’s radical fight to deliver free healthcare to Britain. Married to an ex-Navy medic turned full-time GP and mother to a young daughter who couldn’t be more different from her, she muddles her family life with her political activity. Everything changes when she meets Hollywood hotshot George Blythe.