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TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK) Extends West End Run


by Stephi Wild - April 26, 2024

New British musical Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) will extend by a further seven weeks at the Criterion Theatre. Learn more about the musical here!...

Review: YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, Southwark Playhouse


by Franco Milazzo - April 23, 2024

A show dripping in pretension performed by a naked man? An impenetrable work obsessed with having a sex toy deep inside one’s backside? A meditation on “existential anxiety” that does little of note with an hour of precious life? There’s enough irony in You Are Going To Die to power an Alanis Moriss...

Photos: First Look at the West End Transfer of TWO STRANGERS (CARRY A CAKE ACROSS NEW YORK)


by Stephi Wild - April 22, 2024

All new photos have been released from Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion Theatre. Check out the photos here!...

Video: Watch a Trailer for CAPTAIN AMAZING at Southwark Playhouse


by Blair Ingenthron - April 21, 2024

The 10-year anniversary production of Alistair McDowall’s critically acclaimed Captain Amazing will open at Southwark Playhouse Borough this May. Get a sneak peek at the production in the video here!...

Presale Tickets Available For THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON at the Ambassadors Theatre


by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Presale is now underway for tickets to The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button at the Ambassadors Theatre!...

Cast Set For A CHILD OF SCIENCE at Bristol Old Vic, Starring Tom Felton


by Stephi Wild - April 18, 2024

Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for their world premiere production of Gareth Farr’s new play A Child of Science, telling the pioneering story of Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy’s creation of IVF, and the army of women whose bravery helped them achieve the impossible....

Full Cast Set For the Royal Shakespeare Company's THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL


by Stephi Wild - April 17, 2024

Full casting has been announced for the RSC's forthcoming production of The School for Scandal.  Directed by Tinuke Craig, the show runs in repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon between Saturday 2 July – Friday 6 September. ...

Video: Behind the Scenes of CAPTAIN AMAZING at Southwark Playhouse Borough


by Stephi Wild - April 16, 2024

Ahead of the revival of Captain Amazing opening in just two weeks, an all new video is giving a behind the scenes look of the show, featuring interviews with the show's creative team. Check out the video here!...

Feature: A Day at The National Youth Music Theatre


by Gary Naylor - April 15, 2024

Practice-based learning lives on as the stars of the future are created...

Review: MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Wilton's Music Hall


by Franco Milazzo - April 11, 2024

​​​​​​​Serving as a kind of Barber of Seville of theatre, Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of the most accessible of Shakespeare’s plays. Its blend of mystic romance, daffy dramatists and fairy-powered shenanigans is not short on rambunctious comedy turns but, in the hands of Flabbergast Theatre, that...

Past Shows

Garry Starr Performs Everything
Garry Starr Performs Everything
11/29 - 12/23/2023


Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction. Starr tears through genres ...

Sugar Coat
Sugar Coat
3/29 - 4/22/2023


After an acclaimed run at VAULT Festival in 2020, the queer, feminist pop-punk hit Sugar Coat returns to Southwark Playhouse as a timely rallying cry ...

WINDFALL
WINDFALL
2/9 - 3/11/2023


Pushed to the edge by their maniacal boss, five downtrodden office workers decide to risk it all on a $500million lottery ticket in the hope ...

The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost
10/11 - 11/5/2022


Step right up to Oscar Wilde's uproarious vaudeville spectacular The Canterville Ghost which is coming to haunt and delight audiences at the Southwark Playhouse this ...

Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus
9/1 - 10/1/2022


Bringing the supernatural to Southwark this autumn, Lazarus Theatre Company are transforming Christopher Marlowes Elizabethan tragedy into a multi-sensory theatrical experience. Exploring the modern tragedies ...

Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life)


The European premiere of a bio-historical musical comedy from the Tony-award winning writers of Urinetown opens at the Southwark Playhouse this summer. Yeast Nation (The ...

Mohand & Peter
Mohand & Peter
3/9 - 4/2/2022


Mohand & Peter from PSYCHEdelight, one of the worlds leading creators of theatre made by refugees. The show is inspired by Mohands own life as ...

Gatsby
Gatsby
12/8 - 1/8/2022


Gatsby: The Musical- A staged musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'...

Gatsby: The Musical


This original retelling of Fitzgeralds classic novel pivots the focus to Daisy, with references to the real woman that inspired her character; his wife, Zelda ...

Exile
Exile
11/7


Its 2016. Donnas life is thrown into disarray when she discovers shes pregnant, forcing her to make a secret journey from her home in Ireland ...

Yellowfin
Yellowfin
10/13 - 11/6/2021


A fiercely original new play fusing politically charged drama with biting comedy, Yellowfin delves into the backroom dealings of a future in which all of ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

Staircase
Staircase
6/23 - 7/17/2021


Not seen in London for more than half a century, Staircase by Charles Dyer (1928 2021) was a West End and Broadway hit at its ...

You Are Here
You Are Here
5/17 - 6/12/2021


You Are Here is the UK premiere of an intimate, hilarious and heart-breaking tour-de-force musical that will leave you cheering for the resilience of the ...

The Poltergeist
11/20 - 11/21/2020


Philip Ridley's new play The Poltergeist will no longer be performed in front of a live audience at Southwark Playhouse due to England entering a ...

Lipstick
3/4


Lane Stanley; dir: Andy Rogow. World Premiere...


The Last Five Years, a poignant and unconventional musical by Jason Robert Brown, explores the complexities of love and relationships through a fragmented timeline. Unlike ...


Seven classic pantomimes for the price of one! The great British festive tradition returns to the West End, in a whistle-stop tour for all the ...

Superstar
11/26

Islander: A New Musical
Islander: A New Musical
10/2 - 10/26/2019


Eilidh stares out to sea and dreams of a new life beyond her lonely island. Myth and reality collide when the tide washes a mysterious ...

Frankenstein
10/25


In its premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse, the audiences and critics cheered this new adaptation of one of the greatest novels in the English ...

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