On Betty’s 86th birthday, one candle revives an old pact: when creativity fades, can love choose its own ending? On Betty’s 86th birthday, a single candle on a carrot cake just isn’t good enough. While John has been outside digging up the last of the carrots and making her cake...
“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schube…
New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence…
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light. What emerges from these foundations, however, is an unflinching love letter to London, and a candid illus…
A visually compelling Don Giovanni from Royal Ballet & Opera, with a superb set by Es Devlin and memorable star turn by Aigul Akhmetshina as Donna Elvira.…
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Adapting classical theatre for a new audience is an exciting task and Darren Raymond has relocated Molière’s farce to a Nigerian-Jamaican family living in England. We are all preparing for Adanna and Sinclair’s impending nuptials, with relatives from both sides gathering at her childhood home. …
Presented as part of a rep season, Flywheel's take on the Chekhov classic works well enough to honour its source…
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The climate crisis abuses us of the notion that we’re invincible, and ultimately forces us to reckon with exactly how much time we have left on Earth. On a much smaller scale, the same can be said of getting older.…
“I am the altar and the ashtray of these men’s desires.” Award-winning playwright Chris Thompson and RSC Associate Artist Owen Horsley unite for the UK premiere of Desire Under the L Train — 3 nights only at the Omnibus Theatre. Following a sold-out, extended Off-Broadway...
What does one generation owe the next? By Martha Loader (Winner, George Devine Award 2025) Award-winning Martha Loader is one of the finest young playwrights working in Britain today. Albatross takes us to the very boundaries of love in the age of climate catastrophe. Do our...
SMOKE Created and performed by Alexis Gregory Directed by Campbell X + You Are Loved panel. Alex wakes one morning to a new message on Insta from his boyfriend Ben. But Ben died two years ago. What appears to be an everyday hack soon turns into something else as Alex’s life...
Inspired by real events and brought to the stage by Slavic theatre company WITHINTHEATRE, Boogie on the Bones looks at love, music and the price of freedom in a post Stalinist Russia. In 1956 Moscow, a new underground movement - the Stilyagi - bursts into life made up of young...
It’s the 6th Century BCE: Sappho’s back and she’s single. “If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? If two lesbians f*ck and no one records it, did it happen? Sorry, let me rephrase that: if two women fall in love but none of the men write about it...
A show about outdoor swimming, community and holding each other. Liz grew up in the Lake District. She spent her childhood walking in the fells, playing in the lakes and in the river at the end of her garden. After time away living in the City, Liz returns to the hills and into...
Performed by a cast of actors who remain anonymous throughout to protect their identities Dreamers takes inspiration from To dream , a 2019 Hong Kong euphemism for attending a protest. In the days leading up to the performance, the show will start for audiences with messages...
Following the sold out runs of critical hits Undetectable and My Dads Gap Year, Tom Wright and Rikki Beadle-Blair bring you their most provocative show to date: The darkly comedic and wildly sexy Very Special Guest Star.In a desperate attempt to bring some spark back to their...
BOYS CRYWRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY CHRISTIAN GRAHAMA play exploring the boundaries and constraints of modern masculinity.When Mark is mugged on the way to college, his reality is shattered. This life-changing event forces him to confront some of his deepest issues.On his journey...
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