
The Seance
A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.

Greenwich Theatre Studio, Crooms Hill, London, SE10 8ES
London
Greenwich Theatre is a theatre in UK / West End.

A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.

It has a premise that borders on sci-fi, but at its heart Memoriam is a family drama. This Papatango-shortlisted play follows Jewish siblings Rachel and David, their grandmother – the last remaining Holocaust survivor – and the way generational trauma both divides them and brings them back toget…
Not all heroes wear capes. Garry Starr’s mission is to save literature (or at least the books printed in Penguin’s series of orange-and-black paperbacks) and he’s going to do it looking like a Tudor prince who has come straight from an nudist beach.…
How can you be true to yourself when feminism is a commodity, your brand is everything, and sex is only the means to an end? Regrettably, Reilly doesn’t add much to the conversation. She introduces a character, Danni, who’s given the opportunity to become the next big thing in the sex-positive p…
Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…
London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…
After being taken on a lengthy tour of the UK and Ireland, Only Human comes to the West End as Brown’s first appearance since 2022’s Showman, a post-pandemic show filled with highly personal insights. Its follow-up Unbelievable saw Brown remain backstage as co-creator, writer and co-director (al…
While both the film and the autobiography have entered our cultural heritage as testimonies of the Nazi era – the poverty it brought, its violence, its misery – this new rendition inhabits a different realm. Thom Southerland debuts Szpilman’s own compositions in an invariably morose piece of t…
It’s Les Mis if you squint. A musical based on turbulent French history, doomed love, and flags brandished like a crusaders’ Warhammers. Except this is not the longest running musical in West End history. This is its weird cousin Martin Guerre.…
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained. Bryan Louiselle takes over the musical aspect, adapting and producing the soundtrack as well as writing new songs. David Simpatico writes the book: his script can be a bit cheesy and strai…
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact. Danny Lee Wynter's new work, Ilford Boy is a witty, sensitive and beautifully performed piece of theatre that will warm your soul and break your heart…
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A Play About Homelessness by Dougie Blaxland Intimate, extremely moving and wonderful performances.Listed as a readers favourite theatre of 2020 byThe GuardianHarrowing stories eloquently told all the more shocking because we know them to be true.Filmmaker Ken LoachIn just two...

We are delighted to welcome the return of Steve Richards to Greenwich Theatre with his Rock N Roll Politics Show.Could there be a better time to delve into the dramatic machinations of Westminster? A sell out-show in London and at the Edinburgh Festival, the award winning...

Adapted by Anthony Clark from the novel by Carlo CollodiDirected by James HaddrellWhen a childrens game of hide-and-seek leads to the discovery of a talking log in the forest, Mr Cherry is quick to see the potential in the strange situation. However, when he delivers the log to...

A thrilling adventure set in an alternative history of England, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase tells the story of two brave and determined girls as they fight against ferocious wolves and battle their way through wastelands to defeat their very evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp.This...

Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep,And cant fall asleep without them!Watch the adventures of Bo Peep unravel as she tries to rescue her woolly friends! Counting her sheep always sends Bo Peep off to sleep by bedtime, but with no sign of them yet shell be up all night searching...

We are delighted to welcome the return of Steve Richards to Greenwich Theatre with his Rock N Roll Politics Show.Could there be a better time to delve into the dramatic machinations of Westminster? A sell out-show in London and at the Edinburgh Festival, the award winning...

Join an adventurous young girl and her seafaring father as they reimagine the story of a tiny snails incredible trip around the world, inspired by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schefflers much-loved picture book.Longing to see the world, a tiny sea snail hitches a lift on the tail of...

From a conventional upbringing to global notoriety via The Naked Civil Servant, Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century. Openly gay as early as the 1930s, Quentin spent decades being beaten up on Londons streets for his refusal to be anything...

THREE SHORT PLAYS BYCARYL CHURCHILLABORTIVE, SEAGULLS, THREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTSDirected by James HaddrellFeaturing Paul McGannCelebrating 50 years since Caryl Churchills short play Abortive was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, we are delighted to transfer the play to the stage...

Once again, the best comedians from the UK and international circuit head to the Greenwich Theatre stage to do what they do best but without the rude bits! Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires or Highlanders)A highlight for...
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