Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes tale, in a wildly enjoyable, fun-filled comedy mystery. WhenSir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the grounds of BaskervilleHall, his family estate on Dartmoor, with a look of terror carved on hisface and the paw prints of a...
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 …
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.…
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…
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?…
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 …
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.…
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…
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…
Disturbing and distressing, but a production for our times…
Directed by Jonathan O'Boyle, this production comes from Barn Theatre Cirencester where it was first staged in 2022, revived for a summer run and now transfers with its full Barn company before heading off on a national tour. It arrives as a hastily arranged replacement for the troubled Burlesque th…
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The Sequel is a dark, funny and unsettling new comedy-drama with a live musical score, exploring what happens when a work of art refuses to stay in the past... When celebrated author Grace Thoth returns to the café that inspired her breakout novel, she finds it frozen in time...
“[Lambslaughter] captures the strange intensity of teenage consciousness with an honesty that feels almost documentary. It does not sentimentalise girlhood. It remembers it.” A Young(ish) Perspective Following a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Playhouse East, the...
Metal Rabbit Productions presents: BLINK King’s Head Theatre Announces the First Major Revival of Blink Starring Abigail Thorn and Directed by Simon Paris FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Imagery by Katie Kirkpatrick BLINK Written by Phil Porter Directed by Simon Paris Starring Abigail...
"You know why the ghost train is so popular? Because there are no ghosts. Once you’ve learnt that you can make a fortune." Ten years ago something terrible happened to Presley and Haley. Since then they've lived alone in their dead parents’ house, doors bolted against the...
Step into the Mooncoin, a grubby Irish pub in an even grottier part of London, and meet our Séan. With the help of our pub band, he’ll tell you all about how he met Stan, a hopelessly lost twenty-something from Poland, and how the two lads fell in love. Follow them through a...
A new queer comedy starring Neil Ashton (It’s A Sin), Sarah Moyle (Doctors) and a stage debut from Heartstoppers' Cormac Hyde-Corrin. They say all roads lead to Rome, but the M64 leads to a ransacked family home and a mouse drowned in bisto. When 40 year old Ken picks up a...
Some of the best comedy-improvisers in the UK, the Yes Queens will star at London’s oldest pub theatre on the last Saturday of every month, for what promise to be stellar nights of raucous fun and ingenious invention. Featuring top UK impro talent from Olivier Award-winning...
‘CAT’ is a one-woman twisted comedy by Connie Harris. Cat is stuck. Stuck in a little village. Stuck with her broken Granddad in his broken house. Stuck with an old secret. And she wants out. Experience a razor-sharp, subversive exploration of life at its darkest, ranging from...
A proper London, proper uplifting & proper queer play about a fascinating crossdresser from the 1700s. In 2023, Krissy buys the memoirs of Mary Lacy, a real-life 18th-century shipwright, who lived her life as a man. Mary defied gender norms, bossed it in a binary world, and even...
You meet on a night out. You kiss under the lights. You go back to his. He makes you breakfast the next morning. You kiss him goodbye. He’s blocked you on Grindr. Fresh off the Edinburgh Fringe, this play written and performed by Conor Ó'Cuinn is ‘ a powerful critique of hook-up...
