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Get ready for a wickedly funny night at the theatre as Joe Orton’s scandalous dark farce Loot bursts onto the stage.A bank robbery, a family...
A Play About Generations, Gender, and the Words UnspokenTwo generations divided by their ways of expressing love, pain, and hope. In Stitch in Time, tradition collides with...
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 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...
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by Alexander Cohen - March 04, 2026
Arthur Miller's later works are usually overshadowed by his earlier masterpieces. Is it time for reappraisal? With rising antisemitism across the world, what can Miller’s 1994 confrontation of anti-Jewish racism tell us in 2025?...
by Clementine Scott - March 03, 2026
Somewhere between 20,000 and 300,000 women, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, were trafficked into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during the Second World War: the so-called ‘comfort women’. Writer-performer Minjeong Kim’s one-woman show tells just one of their stories....
by Jo Caruana - March 03, 2026
The filter-like haze hits you first. Then the occasional lighting, the tiled ceiling, and the faint whiff of the 80s. But it's the arrival of two extraordinary performances – Madelyn Smedley's fizzing, fearless Rita and Julius D'Silva's weary, cynical Frank – that makes Reading Rep Theatre's Edu...
by Laura Jones - March 02, 2026
Staged at the cavernous Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Sea Witch arrived with the sort of fanfare usually reserved for tried-and-tested crowd-pleasers. Instead, this world premiere exposed the perils of unveiling an unpolished new musical on one of the West End’s most imposing stages....
by Matthew Paluch - March 02, 2026
Sci-fi, like most things, is an acquired taste, and not something you often find related to dance. Enter The Coronet Theatre for once again pushing the boundaries of avant-garde programming.
Last And First Men (2024) by Neon Dance is a multimedia work that definitely gets the brain working in pre-p...
by Franco Milazzo - February 27, 2026
It appears Tosca Rivola is back for a sequel of sorts. After last year’s debacle that was Diamonds and Dust - a production she co-created with Dita Von Teese that promised the moon, delivered a pebble, was 'paused' shortly after its press night and then, two months later, quietly cancelled - the A...
by Clementine Scott - February 26, 2026
“We’ve died, we’ve been reborn, but we still have our memories,” a character reflects at one point. He’s talking about the years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and this sense of war as existential is everywhere in Ukrainian playwright Polina Polozhentseva’s understated fable....
by Debbie Gilpin - February 26, 2026
The 2026 edition of the London Handel Festival, which kicked off last week, is running under the theme of From Heavenly Harmony. The five-week event aims to “enrich lives through Handel’s music”, with concerts and recitals taking place in a variety of venues across London - last night saw The ...
by Franco Milazzo - February 26, 2026
If you have ever suspected that opera might benefit from fewer Valkyries and more vaudeville, Opera Locos is here to confirm your prejudice and then sing it at you in Italian....
by Cindy Marcolina - February 26, 2026
The sudden passing of her father kick-starts a profound identity crisis in Lenore. Why didn’t her life dramatically change when he died? She remembers witnessing what the loss of a parent did to a schoolmate when she was younger, that instant transformation into a shell of who she was beforehand. ...
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