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DRH Arts and Orsolya Nagy present CHARLIE and STRIPTEASE by Slawomir Mrozek. A double-bill of hilarious political theatre by the award-winning Polish playwright. These two...
by Gary Naylor - May 01, 2026
Emeka Agada's new play has much to say, but would benefit from an edit down to an hour...
by Clementine Scott - April 30, 2026
A few scenes into Emily Lim’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe stage undergoes a transformation. Austere statuary gets wheeled away, the columns are swathed in plastic flowers, and Michael Grady-Hall as Puck blows bubbles to make more flowers emerge from the floorboards. The effec...
by Sarah OHara - April 30, 2026
Written by Aron Julius and directed by Mark Womack, Conteh is a powerful and emotive drama about the life of one of Liverpool’s sporting icons. Julius stars as boxer John Conteh, who at 24 years old became the light heavyweight champion of the world. Julius’ script tells Conteh’s story, both i...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 01, 2026
Following a sell-out run at Theatre Royal Bath, David Hare's play, Grace Pervades, is a love letter to theatre, following the professional and personal partnership of legendary Victorian theatrical duo Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Together they performed over 27 years, changing the face and sta...
by Franco Milazzo - April 30, 2026
A band of bohemians pitching up in Kensington would normally have the locals reaching for a bottle of smelling salts. Happily, the only thing being upended here is expectation, as Lost Estate’s Chat Noir slips its latest slice of elegant decadence discreetly into this West London enclave....
by Cheryl Markosky - April 30, 2026
At the end of Mass, currently celebrating its world stage premiere at London's Donmar Warehouse, my visibly moved son says, 'That's the best play I'll see this year.' And he's absolutely right. Director Carrie Cracknell's incredible interpretation of American actor-turned-writer Fran Kranz's stage s...
by Cindy Marcolina - May 01, 2026
Ghosts, death, and the local fauna join the living in a house in the middle of the woods. When Luka takes his girlfriend to his childhood home to spend her birthday relaxing in solitude, she’s suddenly met with the weight of Luka’s family dynamics. Secluded in the damp darkness of the trees, Luk...
by Cheryl Markosky - April 29, 2026
Heartsink, a bittersweet medical comedy by Unequal Productions that's premiering at Riverside Studios, is a little gem. In only 85 minutes (no interval) writer Farine Clarke, a former GP, deftly deals with weighty issues such as an overstretched NHS, technology versus humanity, racism, assisted dyi...
by Clementine Scott - April 27, 2026
For a play ostensibly about wildlife photography, we don’t actually see too many photographs in Firewing. Instead, this is a story about truth: our relationship to it, how we represent it, and what it can cost us....
by Clementine Scott - April 27, 2026
Much like All My Sons, the virtuosic Arthur Miller tragedy revived in the West End earlier this year, Miller’s lesser-known 1967 play The Price holds a mirror up to the American Dream and finds people varying degrees of broken by their desire to succeed. “I want money,” declares a character e...
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