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Review: COMIC CON LIVERPOOL, Exhibition Centre Liverpool


by Sarah OHara - May 15, 2024

Since hosting their first event at Exhibition Centre Liverpool in 2018, Comic Con Liverpool have delighted fans with one of Europe’s largest pop culture conventions - and this year’s was one of their biggest, best and most brilliant yet....

Review: THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Theatre Royal Bath


by Cheryl Markosky - May 14, 2024

Tamsin Greig is a marvel as Hester Collyer in Lindsay Posner's new revival of Terence Rattigan's 1950s classic, The Deep Blue Sea, at Theatre Royal Bath's intimate, 126-seater Ustinov Studio....

Review: THE HOUSE PARTY, Chichester Festival Theatre


by Gary Naylor - May 12, 2024

Superb performances anchor a hurtling rollercoaster of a play that will live long in the memory of anyone who sees it....

Review: POP UP PUPPET CINEMA, Exhibition Centre Liverpool


by Sarah OHara - May 13, 2024

At the first Comic Con Liverpool event of 2024, Pop Up Puppet Cinema delighted audiences with performances of two iconic films - Back to the Future and Jaws....

Book Review: A SENSE OF THEATRE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S NATIONAL THEATRE, by Richard Pilbrow


by Cheryl Markosky - May 13, 2024

In the summer of 1962, Sir Laurence Olivier invited lighting designer Richard Pilbrow to 'sort out the bloody awful lighting' at Chichester Theatre two days before it opened. Pilbrow replied there was nothing he could do in so short a time. 'Well, you're no bloody use, are you?' Olivier quipped....

Review: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, Theatre Royal Windsor


by Gary Naylor - May 09, 2024

Landmark show creaks at the edges, but gets its share of laughs in this highly accomplished touring show...

Brighton Fringe Review: WHOA MAMA!, Spiegeltent, Bosco Theatre


by Caroline Cronin - May 09, 2024

The strapline for Stephanie Ware’s WHOA MAMA! had me intrigued – a one woman comedy about a 40-something woman and her choice to remain childfree. There’s certainly no shortage of rhetoric on this subject, particularly on social media where the childfree “movement” has a real chokehold. But the conc...

Review: VANITY FAIR, Open Bar Theatre


by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 09, 2024

Pub garden theatre specialist Open Bar Theatre has returned for a spring season with a deft and slightly chaotic version of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Dealing with the fortunes of two young women, the story explores early 19th-century English society, specifically how money and ambition can de...

Review: TIM RICE: MY LIFE IN MUSICALS, Liverpool Playhouse


by Sarah OHara - May 07, 2024

Currently on tour across the UK, Tim Rice: My Life In Musicals is two hours of musical theatre bliss that you will never forget....

Review: A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL, Salisbury Playhouse


by Cheryl Markosky - May 01, 2024

What can be more cheering on a dreary, wet evening than seeing a jolly Alan Ayckbourn comedy?...

Past Shows

Blood, Sweat and Vaginas (Rehearsed Reading)


Carolanns awakening is sudden and all consuming. Perpetuating the strong black woman myth is no longer an option. She stumbles out of her super woman ...

Blood, Sweat and Vaginas (Rehearsed Reading)


Carolanns awakening is sudden and all consuming. Perpetuating the strong black woman myth is no longer an option. She stumbles out of her super woman ...

Will Penswick/Mark and Haydn


See two excellent comedy shows for the price of one!In Will Penswick: Nrdic(k), full-time detective, part-time DJ and lifelong Scandinavian Ptur Ptursson goes toe-to-toe with ...

How The West Was Lost
How The West Was Lost
25/6 - 26/6/2019


The Bard of Windmill Hill serves up a treatise for our troubled times, encompassing tragedy, history and comedy, satire, philosophy and social comment, drama, theatricality ...

Bed 13
Bed 13
16/7 - 19/6/2019


The NHS has a funding crisis, A&E is full and ambulances are queueing up outside. This new play, brought to you by the Putney Theatre ...

Michele Osten and the NOT Just Jazz Band


Michele Osten and the NOT Just Jazz Band, along with special guest singer Anita Auch, cover a vast repertoire. Expect everything from jazz standards to ...

The Paper Moon


The Paper Moon is a gentle adventure into theatre for babies and young children. Welcome to the small town of Blank Page — come and ...

Final Cut
Final Cut
7/2 - 8/2/2019


Sir Trevor Brierly — writer, director, philanthropist, plasterer — was many things to many people. But to his colleagues Michaelmas Crouch and Patio Horse, he ...

Lord of The Flies
Lord of The Flies
30/1 - 2/2/2019


“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” When a plane goes down above an uninhabited island, a group of evacuees find themselves stranded. With ...

Wings
Wings
1/2 - 2/2/2019


When a young girl discovers what appears to be an old man collapsed at the back of her garden, she notices something strange: wings. Difficult ...

Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt
25/1 - 26/1/2019


An American mom, J.K. Rowling, and a Men’s Rights activist disguised as a female SNP politician, join togethers to stop Milosz — Eurovision winner, EU ...

Jazzy Lunch with Miss Rosie and the Moonshyne Runners


Conjuring the golden age of jazz, Miss Rosie and the Moonshyne Runners celebrate the Great American Songbook, immortalised by Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and Anita ...

Piaf Remembered


This intimate musical cabaret includes many of Piaf’s timeless classics, sung in French by the renowned jazz singer Oriana Curls. Meet a man who shares ...

Jazz Evening with Madeleine Witney


Drawing influence from legends of the 30s and 50s like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Madeleine’s adoration for jazz influences her style and persona, dressing ...

Videos


West End Magic in UK Regional West End Magic
Leicester Square Theatre (10/19 - 10/19)
Ellen Kent: Madama Butterfly in UK Regional Ellen Kent: Madama Butterfly
Richmond Theatre (5/18 - 5/18)
ROTTEN in UK Regional ROTTEN
Nottingham Playhouse (5/23 - 5/23)
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in UK Regional William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Brixham Theatre (6/7 - 6/8)
An Evening with Trevor and Gary in UK Regional An Evening with Trevor and Gary
The Gordon Craig Theatre (6/19 - 6/19)
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Birmingham in UK Regional William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - Birmingham
The Black Box Theatre (7/20 - 7/20)
Julius Caesar in UK Regional Julius Caesar
Southwark Playhouse Borough (9/6 - 10/5)
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