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Images have been released of Measure for Measure currently showing in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe until the 15 January.

Get a first look at the world premiere of SAMSKARA at The Yard Theatre.

Rehearsal imagery for Trouble In Mind by Alice Childress is released today. Opening in the Dorfman on December 2 and running until the 19 January, the production is directed by Nancy Medina with Tanya Moodie performing the role of Wiletta.  

Love and Other Acts of Violence is a pretty dark and uneasy evening. It's effectively staged and the performances draw you in with their intensity, but as a whole it doesn't quite click into place.

Donmar Warehouse presents the world première of Love And Other Acts Of Violence by Cordelia Lynn. 

My observations at the time of writing and developing Rice was that stories about Asian and South Asian people, whether told through stage, screen or books, tended to focus on family narratives and also stories about the particular ethnic community the characters are from. This meant that if there were Chinese protagonists, then most of the other characters were probably Chinese, they were probably relatives.

As part of their new Recovery Season, the Orange Tree Theatre, in a co-production with Actors Touring Company now brings us Rice, a powerful, thought-provoking and funny play about cultural identity, class, race and power told through two very different women, who form an unlikely friendship. Set in Australia, Nisha is a young Indian-Australian and an ambitious executive on the cusp of securing a life-changing deal to sell rice to India. Yvette is an older Chinese-Australian who cleans Nisha’s office while she juggles with trying to revive a failing business and a daughter in trouble for environmental activism.

Ambitious and never less than interesting, the 90 minutes all-through running time turns already gruesome material into a tougher watch that it need be.

At long last, the Young Vic has unveiled Cush Jumbo and Greg Hersov's hugely anticipated and much delayed collaboration on Hamlet. Jumbo, familiar to many from the US series The Good Fight, joins the ranks of female actors who have tackled the gargantuan role of the Danish Prince in Shakespeare's great tragedy. In Hersov's abstracted - and often unwieldy - Elsinore, she portrays with charming confidence an increasingly charismatic Hamlet whose masculine pronouns are retained, but whose gender identity is left richly ambiguous.

The Donmar Warehouse is presenting Cordelia Lynn’s Love and Other Acts of Violence¸ which marks the venue’s reopening following its completion of essential building works. Elayce Ismail directs Tom Mothersdale (Him/Man), Richard Katz (Tatte) and Abigail Weinstock (Her/Baba).

On Shaftesbury Avenue, right opposite The Palace Theatre with its Cursed Child, a venue which holds a mesmerising surprise lies between a Wing Stop and an educational centre. Stone Nest - an old Welsh Presbyterian church - is now home to an Anglo-Russian multimedia production with looks as luscious as its core subject is plain.

Last Sunday National Youth Theatre of Great Britain collaborated with talented young fashion designer and recent NYT alumnus Steven Stokey-Daley on his S.S. Daley's London Fashion Week debut, as part of the British Fashion Council’s NewGen showcase, in partnership with TikTok at the Old Selfridges Hotel.

Memories are fickle things. We rehearse them, we shape them, and we eventually forget the original events and end up making new ones, filling the gaps with our experience of them rather than the actual occurrences. It’s the core concept of Shelagh Stephenson’s multi-awarded play, The Memory of Water. Premiered in 1996 on the Hampstead Theatre stage, it went on to win an Olivier in 2000, debut in the States, tour internationally, and even landed on the big screen in 2002 titled Before You Go directed by Lewis Gilbert.

The 2019 Edinburgh Fringe hit comes to London with high-quality production values intact. Originally co-produced by HighTide, this run is in association with Queer House. Pink Lemonade is an autobiographical one-person show by Nottingham actor, writer, and performance artist Mika Onyx Johnson.

The Young Vic today releases rehearsal images for their much anticipated production of Hamlet, with Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, The Good Fight) making her YV debut as a new kind of Hamlet. She reunites with her long-time collaborator Greg Hersov, to bring us this tale of power, politics and desire.  

Lucy Black, Kulvinder Ghir, Adam James, Lizzy McInnerny, Carolina Main and Laura Rogers will perform in this poignant and painfully funny comedy about conflicting memories, life and loss, which received its world premiere at the theatre in 1996.  

State of the nation stuff at the National Theatre.

The World Premiere of Danny Robins’ new play 2:22 - A Ghost Story will take place at the Noël Coward Theatre on 3 August. Learn more about check out the rehearsal photos here!

Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo is sensational in Benedict Lombe’s full-length debut currently running at The Bush Theatre. Directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike, the piece is an explosive and complex exploration of identity, belonging and self-love. Moving through tumultuous Congo, post-Apartheid South Africa, and hostile Ireland and England, we watch a woman find herself, through exploring her and the world’s history.

What sells better than sex? In Anna X, the answer is clear: exclusivity. Inspired by the true story of the socialite scammer Anna Sorokin, Joseph Charlton’s play marks the conclusion of Sonia Friedman’s Re:Emerge season at the Harold Pinter Theatre with a boy-meets-girl tale on steroids. In Daniel Raggett’s hip, snappy staging, Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan — breakout stars of the TV hits The Crown and Industry, respectively — weave a contemporary romance of false façades and murky motives.