BLOOMSBURY FESTIVAL

by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 03, 2026

Nearly twenty years since its original run at the National Theatre and after worldwide success, Joey has come home. Back on the Olivier stage, the emotional and technical jugganaut that is War Horse has lost none of its impact or thrill....

by Christiana Rose - June 01, 2026

Tom Fletcher’s much loved Who’s in Your Book? series makes a joyful leap from page to stage in There’s a Monster in Your Show, a lively and engaging family musical which celebrates imagination, friendship and the importance of working together....

by Franco Milazzo - June 01, 2026

There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this. A female director, returning to this opera for a second season (and for its third outing in Holland Park's semi-open staging), has chosen to stay largely faithful to a work whose central idea is that women are inherently unfaithful....

by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 02, 2026

What a joy it is to see Olivier Award-winning The P Word returning to the Bush Theatre, along with original cast members Esh Alladi and Waleed Akhtar. A deeply moving, heartfelt and important play for our times....

by Donald Hutera - June 01, 2026

Multi-tasking seems to come easy to the American dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and artistic director Maria Caruso. Based in Pittsburgh, where she founded the company Bodiography Contemporary Ballet a quarter-century ago, Caruso also creates and teaches dance around the world. (Next stop: Brazil.)...

by Franco Milazzo - June 01, 2026

There is a moment, somewhere between the knife-thrower's insane grin and Brian the Goose making his entrance with the unruffled authority of a minor aristocrat, when you simply have to give in to the magic. Giffords Circus has this effect on people. It has had this effect on people for twenty-six ye...

by Cindy Marcolina - May 31, 2026

Kenneth Branagh has returned to Stratford-upon-Avon to tread the boards of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where we last saw him 33 years ago as the Prince of Denmark directed by Adrian Noble. This time around, Branagh takes on Shakespeare’s swan song under Richard Eyre. He gets to tick Prospero of...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 29, 2026

For musical fans, it's been a long time coming, but the wait is finally over. Beetlejuice: The Musical has crossed the pond and landed in London. It's loud, brash, and certainly won't please Tim Burton purists. ...

by Clementine Scott - May 28, 2026

In early 1753, two men – a footman named William Critchard and a sailor named Richard Arnold – were arrested and executed for ‘buggery’ in the Bristol suburb of Redcliffe. The story, recently uncovered through court documents in local archives, is an unusually detailed account of the prosecu...

by Franco Milazzo - May 28, 2026

There is exactly one joke in Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce: when the lights come on, the characters are in the dark. Everything else — the borrowed furniture, the hapless sculptor, the stern colonel, the ex-girlfriend arriving at the worst possible moment — is just escalation....