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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
by Clementine Scott - March 03, 2026
Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ‘comfort women’. Writer-performer Minjeong Kim’s one-woman show tells just one of their stories....
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 Laura Jones - March 02, 2026
Staged at the cavernous Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Sea Witch arrived with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for tried-and-tested crowd-pleasers. Instead, this world premiere exposed the perils of unveiling an unpolished new musical on one of the West End’s most imposing stages....
by Matthew Paluch - March 02, 2026
Sci-fi, like most things, is an acquired taste, and not something you often find related to dance. Enter The Coronet Theatre for once again pushing the boundaries of avant-garde programming.
Last And First Men (2024) by Neon Dance is a multimedia work that definitely gets the brain working in pre-p...
by Franco Milazzo - February 27, 2026
It appears Tosca Rivola is back for a sequel of sorts. After last year’s debacle that was Diamonds and Dust - a production she co-created with Dita Von Teese that promised the moon, delivered a pebble, was 'paused' shortly after its press night and then, two months later, quietly cancelled - the A...
by Clementine Scott - February 26, 2026
“We’ve died, we’ve been reborn, but we still have our memories,” a character reflects at one point. He’s talking about the years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and this sense of war as existential is everywhere in Ukrainian playwright Polina Polozhentseva’s understated fable....
by Debbie Gilpin - February 26, 2026
The 2026 edition of the London Handel Festival, which kicked off last week, is running under the theme of From Heavenly Harmony. The five-week event aims to “enrich lives through Handel’s music”, with concerts and recitals taking place in a variety of venues across London - last night saw The ...
by Franco Milazzo - February 26, 2026
If you have ever suspected that opera might benefit from fewer Valkyries and more vaudeville, Opera Locos is here to confirm your prejudice and then sing it at you in Italian....
by Cindy Marcolina - February 26, 2026
The sudden passing of her father kick-starts a profound identity crisis in Lenore. Why didn’t her life dramatically change when he died? She remembers witnessing what the loss of a parent did to a schoolmate when she was younger, that instant transformation into a shell of who she was beforehand. ...
by Cindy Marcolina - February 25, 2026
“What a thing to have a mother!” That’s how Anna Ziegler’s new play ends. Studies show that it takes two to five years for a blended family to become a cohesive unit, and when Jennifer marries John, his daughter Delilah refuses to cooperate. Jennifer badly wants to be in Delilah’s life. In...
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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...
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...
“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...
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...
“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....
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...
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,...
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!...
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....
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...
Haruki Murakami’s much loved 1999 novel Sputnik Sweetheart has been adapted for the stage for the first time in history, by none other than Bryony...
@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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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