Upcoming Shows
An ambitious new show exploring multi-generational pregnancy stories and untold family histories.
A striking theatrical tribute to maternal legacy and erased histories.Since the beginning of their relationship, artists Pablo Lilienfeld and Federico Vladimir have been amazed by their mothers’ very similar...
Part ritual, part exorcism, Wormhole of our Formation charts a fragmented personal journey across the disorienting landscapes of austerity and ageing. From the monotony of bed and breakfasts,...
Queer punk duo, pink suits, invite you into an immersive performance of intimacy, pain, pleasure, and grief – set inside a wandering and personal art...
Louise Orwin has read the writing on the wall. Performance art is dead. (Maybe.) Using very real, very live TikTok experiences, join award-winning cult performance artist Louise Orwin in...
Join Ocean Stefan for an artist talk sharing their experience experimenting in performance, and exploring what happens to liveness when bodies are removed, deleted or obscured. Referencing their work The...
The show will run from Thurs - Sat at 7:30pm. The run time is 2h with no interval....
Part installation, part performance, Matter Era brings a post-human world to life through experimental puppetry and animated objects.
by Mica Blackwell - April 02, 2026
With countless depictions of Queen Victoria in the media, Daisy Goodwin has managed to create something original and thought-provoking. Forcing the audience to question both history and memory, it's the wonderful cast and stunning visuals that complement her script and make for an all-around excitin...
by Gary Naylor - April 01, 2026
Good songs and good performances but a curiously mixed message from Sara Bareilles's smash hit show...
by Caroline Cronin - April 01, 2026
Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile—here adapted by Ken Ludwig and directed by Lucy Bailey—arrives on stage with all the glamour and menace you’d hope for: a sun-soaked cruise, a clutch of suspiciously well-dressed passengers, and, inevitably, a murder that sends everything spiralling....
by Cindy Marcolina - March 29, 2026
Henry V of England is one of those big roles for an actor. Alfie Enoch follows in the footsteps of Laurence Olivier and Tom Hiddleston as the king who led a battalion of tired and outnumbered soldiers to victory. Excellent performances may save it, but co-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare C...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 11, 2026
Christy Lefteri’s 2019 bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo is both a powerful and poetic story about the refugee experience. Her story of Nuri and his wife Afra's escape from Syria to England was inspired by time Lefteri spent working in a refugee camp in Athens. Syria may currently be seen as le...
by Jo Caruana - March 03, 2026
The filter-like haze hits you first. Then the occasional lighting, the tiled ceiling, and the faint whiff of the 80s. But it's the arrival of two extraordinary performances – Madelyn Smedley's fizzing, fearless Rita and Julius D'Silva's weary, cynical Frank – that makes Reading Rep Theatre's Edu...
by Caroline Cronin - February 24, 2026
Adapted by Olivier Award-winner Laura Wade from Somerset Maugham’s original play, The Constant Wife, this new version is directed by Co-Artistic Director of the RSC Tamara Harvey and is now embarking on a UK Tour which, delightfully, opened in Brighton this week. It may not have played to a f...
by Cheryl Markosky - March 01, 2026
What did our critic think of LA BOHEME IN CINEMAS at Cinemas Across The UK?...
by Gary Naylor - February 19, 2026
Innovative take on familiar comedy proves hit and miss as lovers and fairies fight...
by Laura Lott - February 18, 2026
Before Taylor Swift versus Charli XCX - but after The Beatles versus The Rolling Stones - came Blur versus Oasis. David Niven's debut comedy at Birmingham Rep takes us back to the summer of 1995, when temperatures and egos both soared and the nation was gripped by the chart battle between Oasis’ �...
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