The Seance
A Halloween night of whispers, secrets and mounting unease, where a search for answers becomes something far more dangerous.
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Review: JERKER, Waterloo East
An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine. It’s not the last masturbation scene in the play – which was once the subject of an obscenity-related censorship attempt on Californian radio – nor is it the…
Review: A SMALL AND QUIET LIGHT, Orange Tree Theatre
I suspect like most people, you have never come across the name of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan before. A mixed-heritage British Indian and Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Nazi-occupied Paris who was the first woman to be parachuted into France to provide radio communication vital to the R…
Review Roundup: Jesse Tyler Ferguson in TRU
Directed by the award-winning Rob Ashford, Tru is now open at the Menier Chocolate Factory, following the production’s New York run earlier this year. It's December 1975 and Truman Capote is alone in his New York apartment, reeling from a crisis that cost him friendship of the elite social circle …
Review: DIANA: THE UNTOLD AND UNTRUE STORY, Underbelly Boulevard Soho
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, performed and directed by Linus Karp and Joseph Martin, takes the familiar royal narrative and gleefully sets fire to the history books.…
Review: TRU, Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Menier Chocolate Factory
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”. Tru, Jay Presson Allen’s 1989 dramatisation of the incident, locks us in the New Journalism pioneer’s living room in th…
Review: RHYTHM RIOT, Sadler's Wells
There is surely no event more certain in the dance calendar than an English National Ballet mixed bill at Sadler’s Wells. What creative offerings do they have for us this time?…
Review: THE URMETAZOAN, Hampstead Theatre
In a rental in Florida, Abigail is helping Alice to pack: the Nobel Prize winner and decorated scientist is leaving Earth to further space research. The two sisters haven’t spoken in seven years. Alex Rugman delivers a tender representation of sisterhood. Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Meghan Treadway …
Review: TABLE 17, Starring Marisha Wallace, Kiln Theatre
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”. It’s a good thing they warned us, because Douglas Lyons’s play is trying so hard to be a participatory experience that its core emotional truths are being lost along the way.…
Review Roundup: Sting Stars In THE LAST SHIP
Rooted in his own childhood in the British shipbuilding town of Wallsend, The Last Ship tells the moving story of a community of shipbuilders in the North East of England, faced with the closure of their shipyard – the heart of their existence. Sting takes on the role of Jackie White, the shipyard…
Review: THE LAST SHIP, Starring Sting, Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Plenty of heart in this full-throated condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's industrial policies, but great songs and a great set do not a musical make…
Past Shows
145 total · showing 21–30
Cinderella : A Fairy Tale
Greenwich Theatre brings together a company of astonishing actor-musicians, and maybe a few ultra-talented birds, for this toe-tapping revival of one of the best loved fairytales. With her mother gone and brought up by her father, young Ella loves nothing more than adventuring...
Abigails's Party
ABIGAIL’S PARTY London Classic Theatre present ABIGAIL’S PARTY by Mike Leigh Directed by Michael Cabot It was 1977, the year of skin-tight polyester, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and Saturday Night Fever. The Sex Pistols were storming up the charts, skateboarding was the latest...
Grubby Little Mitts : Hello, Hi
GRUBBY LITTLE MITTS: HELLO, HI GRUBBY LITTLE MITTS ARE BACK! Grubby Little Mitts presents the sequel to their award winning debut with a brand new hour of biting sketch comedy at breakneck speed. Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear...
Vincent River
VINCENT RIVER BY PHILIP RIDLEY, PRODUCED BY GREENWICH THEATRE Anita flees her home, haunted by grief and shame. Davey has witnessed something he can never forget. Tonight their paths will collide and their lives will change forever. Thrilling, heart-breaking, and at times darkly...
The Red Road Response
THE RED ROAD RESPONSE Presented by Gutter Street A new multi-arts event where writers share their original work, inspired by short stories from the world of Gutter Street. We challenge four featured acts to create a performance in response to these stories; it could be a poem...
John Peel's Shed
In 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s Radio 1 show. His prize was a box of 150 records. This storytelling show is an ode to radio , those records and anyone who’s ever sought solace in wireless and features a selection of records previously owned by John Peel...
Where is Mrs Christie?
Did she suffer from amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or was there a darker secret involved? Agatha Christie was one of the greatest thriller writers of all time and certainly the most prolific. In 1926, she was at the centre of a mystery as perplexing as any of her fiction, a...
Christine Bovill: Piaf to Pop
PIAF TO POP Christine Bovill’s award-winning Paris established her reputation as one of Europe’s finest interpreters of French song. In her new show, she travels into the 60s and the Americanisation of French music : le yé-yé. A time of great cultural change in France, would the...
You Are The Sun
You are the Sun is a very first opera for babies and grownups that explores the magic of nature. Combining the joy of gentle classical singing and sensory play , it is an invitation to see beauty in the smallest things and to let plants be our guides. Celebrate the gift of...
Jane Austen's Emma
EMMA By Jane Austen Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company for a riotous Regency rom-com! Meet misguided matchmaker Emma as she tries to play Cupid in this hilarious yet faithful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s satirical story. This fast-paced, physical and...
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