Review: CRIMINALLY UNTRUE: AN IMPROVISED TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARY, VAULT Festival
by Kat Mokrynski - March 20, 2023
Criminally Untrue: An Improvised True Crime Documentary is a hilarious show that will leave you wanting more from PillowTalk Theatre. Oldfield and Treen have directed a fantastic cast of improvisers that will bring a little bit of “organised chaos” into your life, creating the crime story of the decade.
by Kat Mokrynski - March 20, 2023
Criminally Untrue: An Improvised True Crime Documentary is a hilarious show that will leave you wanting more from PillowTalk Theatre. Oldfield and Treen have directed a fantastic cast of improvisers that will bring a little bit of “organised chaos” into your life, creating the crime story of the decade.
Review: WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM, VAULT Festival
by Paige Cochrane - March 20, 2023
Wham Bam Thank You Mam is a collaboration straight from the minds of Frances Keyton, Su Mi and Marty Gleeson. Exploring heartache, cultural identity, and ways to stick a middle finger up at social expectation, this trio have combined an hour of captivating storytelling with some truly brilliant comedic skill. This show gives a taste of the very best that each has to offer.
by Paige Cochrane - March 20, 2023
Wham Bam Thank You Mam is a collaboration straight from the minds of Frances Keyton, Su Mi and Marty Gleeson. Exploring heartache, cultural identity, and ways to stick a middle finger up at social expectation, this trio have combined an hour of captivating storytelling with some truly brilliant comedic skill. This show gives a taste of the very best that each has to offer.
Review: AKHNATEN, London Coliseum
by Franco Milazzo - March 19, 2023
Who’s up for a three-hour long opera about the relatively unknown pharaoh Akhnaten? With the singing in Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian? With no surtitles? Based on the music of minimalist composer Phillip Glass? And with an entire troupe of jugglers? Us, that's who.
by Franco Milazzo - March 19, 2023
Who’s up for a three-hour long opera about the relatively unknown pharaoh Akhnaten? With the singing in Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian? With no surtitles? Based on the music of minimalist composer Phillip Glass? And with an entire troupe of jugglers? Us, that's who.
Review: CONTEMPT, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
While the writing is gripping and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain’s performance is excellent, there’s something missing. Catherine’s colleagues are ancient ghosts through the hallowed corridors as she puts on a sleazy, raspy voice to portray them against her well-spoken main character.
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
While the writing is gripping and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain’s performance is excellent, there’s something missing. Catherine’s colleagues are ancient ghosts through the hallowed corridors as she puts on a sleazy, raspy voice to portray them against her well-spoken main character.
Photos: Go Inside THE OLIVIER AWARDS 2023 WITH MASTERCARD NOMINEES' CELEBRATION
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2023
On Friday 17 March, the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard hosted their Nominees’ Celebration, in partnership with Cunard at The Londoner hotel, the world's first super boutique hotel in the heart of London's theatre district. Notable nominees such as Rose Ayling-Ellis, Beverley Knight, Rob Madge, Rafe Spall and Giles Terera were in attendance, among many of the other nominated theatre makers. Check out the photos here!
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2023
On Friday 17 March, the Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard hosted their Nominees’ Celebration, in partnership with Cunard at The Londoner hotel, the world's first super boutique hotel in the heart of London's theatre district. Notable nominees such as Rose Ayling-Ellis, Beverley Knight, Rob Madge, Rafe Spall and Giles Terera were in attendance, among many of the other nominated theatre makers. Check out the photos here!
GRIMM to Play Grimsby's Docks Beer and The Barge
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2023
Grimsby native, Evangeline Henderson, and Sugar Punch bring the world of immersive theatre to Grimsby with a story about its forgotten heritage, the families of fishermen and trawlers that made it.
by BWW News Desk - March 19, 2023
Grimsby native, Evangeline Henderson, and Sugar Punch bring the world of immersive theatre to Grimsby with a story about its forgotten heritage, the families of fishermen and trawlers that made it.
Review: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
You are going to die. It’s a certainty, but it’s also the title of the latest play by This is Not Culturally Significant writer Adam Scott-Rowley. Performed entirely naked, You Are Going To Die is a show about everything and nothing. You can read as much or as little as you wish in it. What does it deal with? We’d love to know - we came out of it with more questions than answers. It feels like a social experiment or an impenetrable piece of performance art. It might just be simply throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks.
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
You are going to die. It’s a certainty, but it’s also the title of the latest play by This is Not Culturally Significant writer Adam Scott-Rowley. Performed entirely naked, You Are Going To Die is a show about everything and nothing. You can read as much or as little as you wish in it. What does it deal with? We’d love to know - we came out of it with more questions than answers. It feels like a social experiment or an impenetrable piece of performance art. It might just be simply throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks.
Review: FREAK OUT!, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
Coin Toss Collective are an exceptionally creative young company. Freak Out! highlights a problem that wouldn’t cross the mind of the average British person who lives in the inland. They deliver an amusing, chaotic farewell to East Anglia. Who would’ve thought that a show about coastal erosion would be so cool!
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
Coin Toss Collective are an exceptionally creative young company. Freak Out! highlights a problem that wouldn’t cross the mind of the average British person who lives in the inland. They deliver an amusing, chaotic farewell to East Anglia. Who would’ve thought that a show about coastal erosion would be so cool!
Review: VANILLA, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
Laura Mead writes with prudish humour while Keith Swainston directs her, Ned Wakeley (Dan), and Scott Henderson in a production that’s almost as uninteresting as Katie and Dan’s sex life. Mead’s script is as traditional as the missionary position, but wishes to be as funny as an inappropriate joke at a funeral. She gives her character a silver tongue and wit for days, and she’s great at delivering too, but the plot is awkwardly stale in its predictability.
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
Laura Mead writes with prudish humour while Keith Swainston directs her, Ned Wakeley (Dan), and Scott Henderson in a production that’s almost as uninteresting as Katie and Dan’s sex life. Mead’s script is as traditional as the missionary position, but wishes to be as funny as an inappropriate joke at a funeral. She gives her character a silver tongue and wit for days, and she’s great at delivering too, but the plot is awkwardly stale in its predictability.
Review: BURNOUT, VAULT Festival
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
This approach has the story losing focus and looks like a plain attempt at quirkiness. Ultimately, while they mention how difficult it is to have only one hour, the piece comes off as struggling to fill those 60 minutes. All in all, the spirit of Burnout is strong and the creatives behind it have all the right ideas. Perhaps a stronger grasp on a more developed plot might help this naive call to arms.
by Cindy Marcolina - March 19, 2023
This approach has the story losing focus and looks like a plain attempt at quirkiness. Ultimately, while they mention how difficult it is to have only one hour, the piece comes off as struggling to fill those 60 minutes. All in all, the spirit of Burnout is strong and the creatives behind it have all the right ideas. Perhaps a stronger grasp on a more developed plot might help this naive call to arms.
Broadway's D. Sabella To Bring THE RAZZLE DAZZLE OF CHICAGO To The Pheasantry
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2023
Broadway's David Sabella will bring his solo show The Razzle Dazzle of Chicago to The Pheasantry April 21-22, 2023 7PM.
by BWW News Desk - March 18, 2023
Broadway's David Sabella will bring his solo show The Razzle Dazzle of Chicago to The Pheasantry April 21-22, 2023 7PM.
Review: THE WAY OLD FRIENDS DO, Park Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - March 18, 2023
A heartfelt love letter to ABBA that'll want to make you say thank you for the music.
by Alexander Cohen - March 18, 2023
A heartfelt love letter to ABBA that'll want to make you say thank you for the music.
Review: BEOWULF, Barbican Hall
by Debbie Gilpin - March 18, 2023
“I shall gain me glory, or grim-death shall take me”, says the titular hero in the thousand-year-old epic poem. Last night, however, it was the turn of composer Iain Bell to seek a different kind of glory as his new adaptation of Beowulf (commissioned by the BBC) made its world première at Barbican Hall. Conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus was Martyn Brabbins, and they were joined by actor Ruth Wilson as narrator, and tenor Charles Styles (standing in for Stuart Skelton at short notice).
by Debbie Gilpin - March 18, 2023
“I shall gain me glory, or grim-death shall take me”, says the titular hero in the thousand-year-old epic poem. Last night, however, it was the turn of composer Iain Bell to seek a different kind of glory as his new adaptation of Beowulf (commissioned by the BBC) made its world première at Barbican Hall. Conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus was Martyn Brabbins, and they were joined by actor Ruth Wilson as narrator, and tenor Charles Styles (standing in for Stuart Skelton at short notice).
Review: ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST, Lyric Hammersmith
by Franco Milazzo - March 18, 2023
With references ripped from the headlines, this rocket-paced update of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist is at once both deeply political and utterly hilarious.
by Franco Milazzo - March 18, 2023
With references ripped from the headlines, this rocket-paced update of Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist is at once both deeply political and utterly hilarious.
Photos: First Look At Extraordinary Bodies' WALDO'S CIRCUS OF MAGIC and Terror At Bristol Old Vic
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
With less than a week to go before the official opening night of Extraordinary Bodies' Waldo's Circus of Magic and Terror at Bristol Old Vic, the first photos of the production have been released. Get a first look at photos from the production.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
With less than a week to go before the official opening night of Extraordinary Bodies' Waldo's Circus of Magic and Terror at Bristol Old Vic, the first photos of the production have been released. Get a first look at photos from the production.
BROWN GIRLS TO IT TOO Returns To Soho Theatre This Spring
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
BBC Sounds' Brown Girls Do It Too the award-winning podcast from Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani explores the messy realities, fantasies and sexpectations of British Asian women, navigating life and relationships along the way.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
BBC Sounds' Brown Girls Do It Too the award-winning podcast from Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani explores the messy realities, fantasies and sexpectations of British Asian women, navigating life and relationships along the way.
Lobster Frock Theatre Collaborates With The Local Community On BLUEPRINTS MUSEUM Project
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Tackling the themes of ageing, isolation and loneliness, Lobster Frock theatre company, in collaboration with The Albany and Age UK, presents Blueprints Museum at MOCA London in Peckham from Wednesday 15 until Saturday 18 March 2023.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Tackling the themes of ageing, isolation and loneliness, Lobster Frock theatre company, in collaboration with The Albany and Age UK, presents Blueprints Museum at MOCA London in Peckham from Wednesday 15 until Saturday 18 March 2023.
Photos: First Look at Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES at the Donmar Warehouse
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
All new production photos have been released from the upcoming revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives directed by Michael Longhurst, that runs at the Donmar Warehouse from 7 April until 27 May.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
All new production photos have been released from the upcoming revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives directed by Michael Longhurst, that runs at the Donmar Warehouse from 7 April until 27 May.
"It Felt Like I Was Coming Home": A First Timer's Account of the Importance and Impact of VAULT Festival
by Kat Mokrynski - March 17, 2023
Entering the VAULT Festival is like stepping into a small pocket universe. Once you are inside The Vaults, you are in a place of arts and acceptance, where people in drag mingle with businessmen after a busy day of working and performing, with shows where women attach steaks to their labia and cabaret performers dance all in the same night.
by Kat Mokrynski - March 17, 2023
Entering the VAULT Festival is like stepping into a small pocket universe. Once you are inside The Vaults, you are in a place of arts and acceptance, where people in drag mingle with businessmen after a busy day of working and performing, with shows where women attach steaks to their labia and cabaret performers dance all in the same night.
New Production of THE FULL MONTY To Tour The UK
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham & Buxton Opera House in association with Mark Goucher and David Pugh have announced a major UK tour of Simon Beaufoy's award-winning smash hit play THE FULL MONTY opening at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham on 14 September 2023.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film, the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham & Buxton Opera House in association with Mark Goucher and David Pugh have announced a major UK tour of Simon Beaufoy's award-winning smash hit play THE FULL MONTY opening at the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham on 14 September 2023.
Ardent Theatre Announce The Full Cast Announced For STRIKE at Southwark Playhouse
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Kirsty Patrick Ward directs Tracy Ryan's extraordinary account of the Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike which took place in Dublin from 1984 to 1987. This action would play a pivotal role in world history with Ireland becoming the first Western European state to ban South African imports and ultimately leading to the fall of the apartheid regime.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Kirsty Patrick Ward directs Tracy Ryan's extraordinary account of the Dunnes Stores Anti-Apartheid Strike which took place in Dublin from 1984 to 1987. This action would play a pivotal role in world history with Ireland becoming the first Western European state to ban South African imports and ultimately leading to the fall of the apartheid regime.
GRINDR: THE OPERA Returns in a New Production at the Union Theatre
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
'Grindr: The Opera' (Winner! Best New Musical, Off West End Awards 2019) puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
'Grindr: The Opera' (Winner! Best New Musical, Off West End Awards 2019) puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera.
Now Onsale: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at the Phoenix Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 17, 2023
Grab your tickets for the West End transfer of Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 17, 2023
Grab your tickets for the West End transfer of Rebecca Frecknall’s A Streetcar Named Desire
Closure of BBC Singers Sends 'Bleak Message' say Freelance Choral Representatives
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 17, 2023
Representatives of the UK’s freelance professional choral ensembles have said the decision to close the BBC Singers is “a huge false economy”.
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 17, 2023
Representatives of the UK’s freelance professional choral ensembles have said the decision to close the BBC Singers is “a huge false economy”.
Easter Activities and Spring Season Announced At Little Angel Theatre
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Little Angel's spring season is packed with vibrant productions, family puppet-making workshops, holiday clubs, storytelling sessions and craft activities running through easter and beyond.
by BWW News Desk - March 17, 2023
Little Angel's spring season is packed with vibrant productions, family puppet-making workshops, holiday clubs, storytelling sessions and craft activities running through easter and beyond.
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