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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Panto-dame musical Oh Yes I Am! comes to the King's Head Theatre. Hector Hanley wanted to be a celebrated great actor. He didnt want to be a panto dame. He didnt want to fall in love with his irritatingly successful rival, Dicky. And he didn't want to finish up in an actors'...
Aileen Gonsalves directs the world premiere of magnificent new talent Charles Entsies debut play - winner of the Adrian Pagan Award for New Writing 2019.This electrifying two-hander will be staged in The Ignition Room, a site-specific location just minutes from the Kings Head...
Two young good looking guys offered they can earn decent money from tickling. Really? Amazingly based on a true story, TICKLE takes us into the strange, hilarious, twisted, and undeniably sexy world of competitive endurance tickling, where its all about laughing and lasting...
PANAMA 1956. Embroiled in a failed coup to oust the President of Panama, Margot Fonteyns husband, Roberto Tito Arias escapes Panama and returns to Peru. Margot, however, was arrested and detained for 24 hours in a Panamanian jail. Her protg, Alexandro, liaises with the British...
Enny: Three women walked hand in hand.Celia: I see now how young we were, only just out of girlhood but a head full of dreams.Enny: They werent dreams, it was revolution. Dreams are nave by nature.Celia: We dreamt of revolution then?Enny: No, we fought for changeAmahle: We three...
LAMBCO Productions are once again taking the late night slot at the King’s Head Theatre with this delightfully funny Christmas Comedy. Taking place in a Staten Island apartment over the Christmas holiday season, this hilarious comedy gives a fly-on-the-wall perspective when four...
LAMBCO Productions proudly present a late night pre-Christmas offering: “BOYS IN THE BUFF”. A musical revue about body image, diets, the gym, selfies, Botox, nip ‘n’ tucks, photo-shopping and what we endure trying to look good. It’s a show about everybody for everybody! “This...
