Review: STOREHOUSE, London
by Franco Milazzo - Jun 16, 2025
Somewhere in a massive warehouse in Deptford, a collection is being made of every digital artifact since the birth of the internet in 1983. Every blog, every tweet, every DM. This archive called Storehouse is, unsurprisingly, reaching bursting point. A proposed solution called The Great Aggregregation has instead turned into “an epic fail”. We, the audience, are being asked to help resolve this critical situation.
Review: PHANTOM PEAK: JONACON, Canada Water
by Franco Milazzo - Feb 25, 2025
In something of a quiet revolution, Phantom Peak has clambered its way to join the best atop the immersive theatre pile - an impression that its latest season fails to dismiss.
Offies Finalists Revealed as Awards Mark 15 Years
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2025
The finalists for the OffWestEnd Awards (Offies) have been announced, as the UK’s foremost awards for independent theatre mark their 15th anniversary. Learn more here!
Review: THE KEY OF DREAMS, Treowen
by Franco Milazzo - Oct 20, 2024
With tickets costing £400 each and a storyline stretching over 24 hours, is Lemon Difficult’s The Key Of Dreams the ultimate in immersive theatre?
Review: RHYTHM & RUSE, The Vaults
by Franco Milazzo - Sep 13, 2024
With a Jazz Age theme and plenty of cabaret, cocktails and close-up magic, London’s latest slab of immersive fun Rhythm & Ruse opens at The Vaults.
Punchdrunk's VIOLA'S ROOM Extends Run
by Stephi Wild - Aug 1, 2024
Punchdrunk, the internationally-acclaimed company that pioneered the breakthrough of immersive theatre in the UK, has announced an extension of Viola’s Room, which is now booking until 3 November.
Review: MANIKINS: A WORK IN PROGRESS, CRYPT
by Franco Milazzo - Jul 2, 2024
Deadweight Theatre’s The Manikins: A Work In Progress is many things. It is interactive. It is intimate. It is thought-provoking. And, despite the misleading title, it has a polished concept that leaves its audience pondering long after the show ends.
Punchdrunk Brings VIOLA'S ROOM to Woolwich in May
by Stephi Wild - Mar 18, 2024
Punchdrunk, the internationally-acclaimed company that pioneered the breakthrough of immersive theatre in the UK, has announced the world premiere of new show Viola's Room, at the company's home in Woolwich this May for a limited run.
2022 Year in Review: Franco Milazzo's Best of 2022
by Franco Milazzo - Dec 28, 2022
If 2020 was the year theatre ground to a halt and 2021 was when it nervously found its legs again (only to fall over occasionally), then 2022 was when it blasted back to some kind of normal with many pandemic-delayed shows finally seeing the inside of a venue.
Review: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED, London
by Franco Milazzo - Dec 5, 2022
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.” Attributed to Nobel Prize-winning economist and Ali G interviewee JK Galbraith, this is the phrase that rolls around my head as I venture into the Crystal Maze-like Monopoly Lifesized, a highly entertaining take on arguably art’s single greatest monument to the pursuit of personal wealth.
Review: PHANTOM PEAK, London
by Franco Milazzo - Aug 4, 2022
Phantom Peak, a Wild West-themed town with robots and no shortage of mysteries, may sound a tad like Westworld – but that’s where the comparison ends.
BWW Review: AGE OF RAGE, Barbican Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - May 6, 2022
Revenge is a dish best served old seems to be the message in Age Of Rage, the latest of Ivo van Hove’s latest extreme theatre productions as he serves up seven Greek stories, all in gloriously guttural Dutch. Read our critic's review.