The Turn of the Screw
England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two children. Desperate to protect them from what she believes to be malevolent spirits,...
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Review: LAST GOAL WINS, Broadway Theatre Catford
Three footballers compete for two slots on the Nigeria football squad, exploring complicated identities and tangled heritage along the way…
Review: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, London Children's Ballet
What did our critic think of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, LONDON CHILDREN'S BALLET at Peacock Theatre?…
Review: EUGENE ONEGIN, The Grange Festival
Love, jealousy, arrogance, death and rejection, Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin has all the trappings of a grand opera, but in essence is a simple story. Brimming with the composer's trademark emotion, Max Webster directs a captivating production at The Grange Festival, featuring an exceptional pe…
Review: LA BOHÈME, Royal Ballet And Opera
On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, England's captain, Harry Kane, leads his team to the last 16 after scoring two goals against the Democratic of Congo in the World Cup. Concurrently, another decisive victory is pulled off by an equ…
Review: I PURITANI, Royal Ballet And Opera
Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust for good reason. Bel canto — that Parisian tradition of vocal style over dramatic substance producing works that, to many, are all fur coat and no knickers — has never qui…
Review: WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN, Jermyn Street Theatre
The New York-based Mint Theater Company specialises in theatrical gems neglected by accidents of history. On this occasion, their charge is Teresa Deevy’s 1937 Wife to James Whelan, chiefly famous for its rejection from Dublin’s Abbey Theatre under newly conservative censorship rules, and not pe…
Review: ARCADIA, Duke Of York’s Theatre
Returning to the West End in a breath-taking production directed by Carrie Cracknell, this revival confirms that Tom Stoppard created one of the finest works in modern theatre.…
Review: -320°F, Sadler's Wells
Hideki Noda reintroduces his idiosyncratic blend of movement and drama in a production that’s grounded by a strong philosophical framework and soars with brilliantly theatrical imagination. This is experimental theatre that verges on the completely and poetically bonkers. The play might be structu…
Review: OUR PUBLIC HOUSE, Marylebone Theatre
Barney Norris's new play is raw slice of life based on extensive research in left behind towns…
Review: ANYTHING GOES, Kilworth House Theatre
There's a cruise ship in the grounds of Kilworth House this summer. The ship's grand upper deck, with its gently smoking cowl vents and sweeping staircases, sits nestled among the woods, and is the setting for Kilworth's annual musical production, which this year is Anything Goes.…
Past Shows
Quartet in Autumn
In 1970s London, four co-workers approach retirement, each quietly marking time. As the seasons turn, they go about their daily rituals and routines. Marcia hoards...
FLUSH
Bodies. Sex. Careers. Shame. Euphoria. Sisterhood.Set in the heart of an East London club, FLUSH unfolds entirely in the women’s bathroom – a space of...
Iphigenia
The winds have stopped. The Greek fleet is stranded. King Agamemnon is told by the gods that there is only one way for his army...
Ken Ludwig’s Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Two strangers meet by letter during World War II. Jack is a military doctor and US Army Captain stationed in Oregon, earnest and duty-bound. Louise...
Ukraine Unbroken
Ukraine Unbroken explores the resilience of a nation determined to remain free. Five short plays by acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, including David Greig, David...
Rodney Black: Who Cares? It’s Working
In the comedy world, where controversy is king, when does the joke stop being funny?A controversial comedian. A money hungry manager. A dirty, dangerous climb-to-the-top. But...
Cry-Baby, The Musical
It’s 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He’s a bad boy with a good...
As Long As We Are Breathing
“What colour eyes you have doesn’t matter to me. Does it have to matter to you? We all love to play don’t we?”The world premiere of a new...
The Double Act
In a crumbling coastal town, a fading comedian is forced to confront his estranged ex-partner – a deranged recluse fixated on their distant heyday—in a...
Tarantula
“Of course – as you’ve no doubt guessed – there’s a big ‘But Then’ moment heading this way…”It’s a sunny, spring day in East London....
Women Who Blow On Knots
Arcola Theatre presents Ece Temelkuran'sWomen Who Blow On KnotsAdapted by Leyla NazliDirected by Lerzan Pamir“What is a revolution if you can’t dance!”Arcola’s co-founder Leyla Nazli (Mare Rider) adapts Ece Temelkuran’s celebrated...
The Band Back Together
A new play about growing up, coming home and making noise.The Band Back Together arrives in London after a spring tour of England and Wales. Barney Norris (Visitors,...
Fabulous Creatures
Welcome to the Monstrous Cabaret Club, a place to drown more than your sorrows, where the acts are unreal and the voices to die for!...
The Book of Grace
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ visceral family portrait reveals a divided nation. “Sometimes the alien is right in your own home. Sometimes right in your own blood....
When You Pass Over My Tomb
Sergio Blanco and Daniel Goldman return to the Arcola Theatre, after the success of their critically acclaimed OFFIE award winning productions of Thebes Land and The Rage of Narcissus, to tell...
Sputnik Sweetheart
@arcolatheatre | www.arcolatheattre.comPartly a story of love and loneliness, partly a detective story, Murakami’s novel is brought to stage by Tony Award nominee Bryony Lavery...
The Mistake
After a completely sold-out run in January/February, this urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima returns to London’s Arcola Theatre, 18 – 22 April...
The Mistake
Written by Michael Mears and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, an urgent, award-winning play about the destruction of Hiroshima transfers from the Edinburgh Fringe to London’s...
Broken Lad
Above a pub in North London, Phil is fighting off panic about his comeback gig. Once a regular stand-up on Saturday night television, Phil’s back...
The Tango Collective: the piazzolla project
For one night at Grimeborn, The Wild Stage presents a night of music not to dance to, but to inspire, make us dream and take...
Songs of Resistance
Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a performance featuring songs from the Weimar Cabarets for Bono and Chris Martin, the cabaret...
The Game of Love and Chance
Arcolas first production in Arcola Outside is a raucous romantic comedy about sex, class and blessings in disguise.Lady Sylvia might be 58th in line to...
The Narcissist
Behold, the most terrifying, entertaining and unnerving, one man show of all time.5 lessons. Nothing but the truth.In under one hour, your brittle wall of...
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