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Mythos: Ragnarök
Mythos: Ragnarök
Apr 7

Famously dubbed as the “maddest, baddest show” of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by the Daily Mail, this groundbreaking and cult-classic adaptation of ancient Norse mythology...



Review: BLINK, King’s Head Theatre


by Clementine Scott - March 07, 2026

When it premiered at Soho Theatre in 2012, Blink was a whimsical oddity, an ode to two eccentric loners falling in love. In 2026, it takes on a darker tone, with the subtitle “a parasocial love story” foreshadowing things to come....

Review: THE WRONG THEY KNEW, Chickenshed Theatre


by Gary Naylor - March 08, 2026

Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today...

Review: MARIE & ROSETTA, @sohoplace


by Clementine Scott - March 06, 2026

Her name may not be widely known today, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s musical legacy is felt down the decades. George Brant’s play about her relationship with gospel singer Marie Knight is retelling not just a woman’s life, but the birth of an entire new genre....

Review: PLAYING SHAKESPEARE WITH DEUTSCHE BANK: ROMEO AND JULIET, Shakespeare's Globe


by Christiana Rose - March 07, 2026

A revival marking twenty years of a remarkable education initiative, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe demonstrates accessible theatre at its very best. Directed by Lucy Cuthbertson, this fast paced ninety minute production captures the essence of Shak...

Review: SCOTTISH BALLET - MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, Sadler's Wells


by Louise Penn - March 06, 2026

Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr. With striking visuals and compositions, it is an original and modern take on a familiar part of history....

Review: OUR TOWN, Starring Michael Sheen, Rose Theatre


by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 05, 2026

Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, marks the first production for Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre. After selling out across Welsh venues, this understated gem of a play moves west to give audiences of the Rose Theatre a chance to see what this exciting new company can do....

Review: BROKEN GLASS, Young Vic


by Alexander Cohen - March 04, 2026

Arthur Miller's later works are usually overshadowed by his earlier masterpieces. Is it time for reappraisal? With rising antisemitism across the world, what can Miller’s 1994 confrontation of anti-Jewish racism tell us in 2025?...

Review: THE COMFORT WOMAN, Omnibus Theatre


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....

Review: EDUCATING RITA, Reading Rep Theatre


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...

Review: SEA WITCH, Theatre Royal Drury Lane


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....

Past Shows

Aladdin
Aladdin
Dec 8 – Jan 6, 2019

The magic of pantomime returns to Darlington Hippodrome with a spectacular and thrilling production of Aladdin. Starring Louie Spence, Zoe Birkett, Robin Askwith, Eric Potts...

Cilla The Musical
Cilla The Musical
Nov 20 – Nov 24, 2018

A spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically acclaimed ITV mini-series....

The Full Monty
The Full Monty
Nov 12 – Nov 17, 2018

Based on his smash-hit film and adapted for the stage by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy, this hilarious and heartfelt production receives standing ovations every night....

Dracula
Dracula
Nov 6 – Nov 10, 2018

Completely re-imagined by an exciting creative team, discover Dracula, the iconic vampire thriller, in this branbd new multi-sensory stage adaptation....

Rock of Ages
Rock of Ages
Oct 8 – Oct 13, 2018

In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA's most famous rock club, they fell in...

Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday
Sep 25 – Sep 29, 2018

Starring Ray Quinn, Summer Holiday is a brand new stage musical based on the iconic 1960s film starring Cliff Richard....

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