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The Folk Revival is back. Nettle Soup’s first double bill tells the stories of Devon old and new, and the things that never change.
When We Were Us is a story about friendship – the kind that shapes you, saves you, and sometimes quietly slips away.Four friends meet for a...
Written by & starring Owen O'NeillI Could Write A Book About It details the trials and tribulations of writing TOM JOAD AND ME a book inspired by...
‘I had one when I found out. Just as I saw my mum pick up the phone.’ When war breaks out in Ukraine, a young...
“What if he’s dead…And I’ve killed someone.”Doughnut Drive is a comedy-crime-thriller about Billericay-born best friends, Bex and Yaz.Last year, Bex’s dad died. And Bex aint coping...
Produced and presented by The Bridge Theatre Training Company, Romeo and Juliet is a high-energy take on Shakespeare's heartwrenching love story set in Verona. Directed...
In an exceptional exploration of one of Britain’s greatest actors, Zeb Soanes brings the life of Sir Alec Guinness to stage across the UK, marking...
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...
Nobody waits like Mulberry. Waiting is his hobby. He waits whenever and wherever he can. Whilst waiting for a big yellow door of opportunity to...
This multigenre collection of short plays explores what happens when new innovations outpace human empathy, intelligence and agency. Across absurd comedy, psychological horror, and intimate...
Love is not the problem – or is it? Produced and presented by Sceneopsis Productions, "You Can't Find Love in London" follows seven Londoners navigating...
Sara Wesker – trade unionist, political activist and radical – led the “singing strikers of 1928” to improve the working conditions of female garment workers...
“Alec, can I ask you a question? And please be honest about it. Have you ever felt the urge to lash out? Anger rising up,...
“Alec, can I ask you a question? And please be honest about it. Have you ever felt the urge to lash out? Anger rising up,...
Hot off the back of a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run, Mushroomification: Legs, Legs, Legs follows the unlikely and explosive collision between a man and a mushroom....
Storms, Maybe Snow is a bittersweet family drama by Miranda Lapworth that explores the enduring love between Lou and Jack. After decades of banter and...
Ukraine Unbroken explores the resilience of a nation determined to remain free. Five short plays by acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, including David Greig, David...
An outrageous, dark comedy about the shortfalls of our education system and finding love in dark times.
An acclaimed performance from America makes its international debut at the White Bear Theatre.“IN SOME DARK VALLEY: The Testimony of Reverend Brand,” has been called...
Showing at The Alban Arena… Famously dubbed the “maddest, baddest show”of the Edinburgh Fringe by the Daily Mail, Mythos: Ragnarökis a ground-breaking, world-touring sensation returning...
Visa, Drama & Other Disasters is a Brechtian choral satire where migration becomes a “showcase” you can never quite pass. A flock enters the Flyways,...
'Friends. Comrades. Enemies..? Set in Caillte Lighthouse off the coast of Angus in the North Sea just after WW1, the story follows two keepers and...
Horatio Nelson: Fever and Fire, is a brand new one-man show written and performed by Adam Preston in costume created by Primetime Emmy winner Dougie Hawkes....
The London hit of 2024 is remounted.After decades in jail, Mac is looking for the daughter he has never known. But she is on a...
By Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by David TushinghamFive cooks in the small kitchen of The Golden Dragon. They are immigrants. They are illegal. They have no papers. And while they struggle...
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by Katie Kirkpatrick - March 11, 2026
Known for her evocative, folk-infused sound, Manic Street Creature sees Memon take the reins as writer and composer as well as performer, bringing her distinctive voice to a personal story of second-hand trauma. First performed at the Fringe in 2022, it’s now back in a new production at the Kiln.�...
by Cindy Marcolina - March 11, 2026
The best of Irish playwriting lands at the Barbican in an exciting project. An audience of one steps into a booth blindly for a play they don’t get to choose. Six five-minute one-act shows penned by Enda Walsh, Marina Carr, Mark O’Rowe, Joy Nesbitt, Louise O’Neill and Katie Holly are offered o...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 11, 2026
Christy Lefteri’s 2019 bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo is both a powerful and poetic story about the refugee experience. Her story of Nuri and his wife Afra's escape from Syria to England was inspired by time Lefteri spent working in a refugee camp in Athens. Syria may currently be seen as le...
by Clementine Scott - March 10, 2026
Sarah McGuinness is best known for her work producing whimsical indie documentaries about the standup comedian Eddie Izzard; in her one-woman show, though, there are only passing references to this. To put a finger on what the show is about is no easy task, because it’s a confused jumble of autofi...
by Clementine Scott - March 10, 2026
Park Theatre’s latest double bill presents two recent works from an emerging writer, both centring average queer London lives, and the lengths we’ll go to to present the versions of ourselves we want the world to see. Both are somewhat overblown in their execution, but at their best they are ima...
by Franco Milazzo - March 09, 2026
At the Menier Chocolate Factory, the revival of Ryan Craig’s The Holy Rosenbergs arrives with the weight of history attached to it. When it first appeared at the National Theatre’s Cottesloe Theatre in 2011, it was a sharp entry into a conversation about Jewish identity, family loyalty and moder...
by Cindy Marcolina - March 10, 2026
In spite of being one of the most difficult genres to stage, horror theatre is having its moment. The Woman in Black might have closed at the Fortune three years ago (almost to the day!), but the success of Paranormal Activity at the Ambassadors is proof that audiences are hungry for some spooky dra...
by Clementine Scott - March 07, 2026
When it premiered at Soho Theatre in 2012, Blink was a whimsical oddity, an ode to two eccentric loners falling in love. In 2026, it takes on a darker tone, with the subtitle “a parasocial love story” foreshadowing things to come....
by Gary Naylor - March 08, 2026
Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today...
by Clementine Scott - March 06, 2026
Her name may not be widely known today, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s musical legacy is felt down the decades. George Brant’s play about her relationship with gospel singer Marie Knight is retelling not just a woman’s life, but the birth of an entire new genre....
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