The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...
It's Shakespeare. In space. With Norse hammers. And Muppet-like aliens running amok. Hamlet + Star Wars + The Muppets
An evening of handpicked excerpts from shows taking part in this year’s festival. Each one is followed by a short Q&A with the artist. Come for a taste of innovative pan-lingual theatre, stay for a drink in the bar afterwards to officially open Voila! Theatre Festival 2026. From...
When classical music meets hip-hop. Rostro x Eminem is a solo performance piece — part concert, part play — that navigates the collision between two worlds: the universe of classical music and the raw, rebellious energy of hip-hop. At its centre is Olivier, a young man raised...
A train never arrives. Time slips out of sync. As the world rushes elsewhere, two strangers, trapped on the same station bench, invent increasingly absurd ways to fill the empty hours. Blending visually poetic performance and physical theatre, this wordless duet transforms a...
NAKED is a love story. A man and woman are getting married. Maybe they shouldn't be. They're trying everything: self-help books and kinky sex; couples counselling and sharing stories from their childhood. But nothing stops the arguments.Their differences go deeper than just...
Inspired by the legend of forty maidens who chose death over slavery, Legend of Kaliakra explores the hidden emotional lives of the women behind one of Bulgaria's most enduring stories. Blending poetic text and music, the production explores what remains unseen in history: the...
Five people decide to get married. To each other. Sort of. But how do you build a wedding when the rules don’t quite fit? The Radical Wedding Engine is a playful experiment in marriage, chosen family and artistic partnership. Five East Asian migrant artists who have worked...
Join the team behind the independent investigative news outlet Byline Times for an entertaining evening of challenging discussion to help us understand the unprecedented times we are living in — and why they are happening — with those with an inside track.
Every day, thousands of migrant construction workers raise homes, offices, theatres and hospitals — spaces where other lives unfold — while often living in temporary rooms, on unstable contracts, with families far away and futures on hold. Three Little Pigs is a new theatre...
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World. Live literature every third Sunday. 15 November 2026. Gale Burns, an award-winner at international poetry festivals, will read from his new book, As It Must. Luigi Coppola and Nadia Larina will also perform. Join us for a night...
Join professional theatre-makers, dramaturgs, translators, publishers and researchers for a panel talk examining the interrelation between (un)translatability, (un)stageability and (un)performability. In the context of Voila! Theatre Festival, the discussion considers...
EFG London Jazz Festival special. Jazz in the Round presents Makam Salam featuring Mira Awad and the Jerusalem Youth Chorus Alumni Collective. Makam Salam is a London-based collective of Pan-Middle-Eastern diaspora musicians, bringing together Palestinian, Israeli, Iranian...
Join the multi award-winning UK jazz ensemble Empirical for a performance of their eighth album, Like Lambs: To The Slaughter, released on Whirlwind Recordings. Empirical — Nathaniel Facey (alto sax), Tom Farmer (double bass) and Shaney Forbes (drums) — are joined by Ivo Neame...
Elliot Pritchard stars as The Woman in the immortal classic of love lost over the telephone. The telephone rings. During the call The Woman gradually loses her battle to retain her lover. In a new physical theatre adaptation, The Human Voice leads us down the steep descent into...
Ankora is a London based, eight-piece ensemble of ambitious young musicians previously selected to perform as Tomorrow’s Warriors Frontline. The ensemble’s repertoire includes original work and powerful jazz covers, reflecting groundedness, hope and connection to roots. Monday...
A bare stage. A single performer. And Victorian London flickers into life. This Christmas, Vintage Verse is delighted to present A Christmas Carol in its purest and most powerful form, performed as Charles Dickens originally intended. Drawn directly from Dickens’ own reading...
Actors from the London Stage return with Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. After Don Pedro’s victory, Claudio falls in love with Hero while Beatrice and Benedick trade barbs. As intrigue and deception threaten Hero’s wedding, the pair are drawn toward an unexpected romance...
Following a successful and critically acclaimed debut, You Can’t Find Love in London returns for a limited second run this December. Blending spoken word, rap, live music and powerful storytelling, the production takes audiences on a funny, fierce and emotionally charged journey...
In imperious Ab Fab Eddie mode, Jennifer Saunders spiritedly dives into Edward Bond's entertaining but somewhat baffling comedy The Sea at Theatre Royal Bath.…
Writer/actor/dancer Mohit Mathur talks to BroadwayWorld about his upcoming dance drama about love and clashing cultures.…
Going to Camden to get high was a teenage rite of passage a generation ago. Now, thanks to Eclipso’s latest VR expedition, kids can chase a rather different kind of high, with or without their parents in tow. …
Eucharist will have you begging for a multiple season TV show development that you can rewatch until your eyes run dry. You won’t know who to root for, let alone what to think. This show is truly worthy of a longer, more developed, run.…
It has a premise that borders on sci-fi, but at its heart Memoriam is a family drama. This Papatango-shortlisted play follows Jewish siblings Rachel and David, their grandmother – the last remaining Holocaust survivor – and the way generational trauma both divides them and brings them back toget…
Not all heroes wear capes. Garry Starr’s mission is to save literature (or at least the books printed in Penguin’s series of orange-and-black paperbacks) and he’s going to do it looking like a Tudor prince who has come straight from an nudist beach.…
How can you be true to yourself when feminism is a commodity, your brand is everything, and sex is only the means to an end? Regrettably, Reilly doesn’t add much to the conversation. She introduces a character, Danni, who’s given the opportunity to become the next big thing in the sex-positive p…
Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…
London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…
After being taken on a lengthy tour of the UK and Ireland, Only Human comes to the West End as Brown’s first appearance since 2022’s Showman, a post-pandemic show filled with highly personal insights. Its follow-up Unbelievable saw Brown remain backstage as co-creator, writer and co-director (al…
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Step into the dark woods this October for a deliciously chilling 60-minute production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic opera, Hansel and Gretel, sung in English. Lost in a mysterious forest, two brave siblings must outsmart a sinister Witch to find their way home. Packed with...
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Performers details to be announced. To apply for the open mic slot click here . Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit The world changes: we make new poetry to...
The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...
Ben Çoktan Gidersiniz Sanmtm - korku üzerine bir oyun. Aç trnak, “Korku: 1. Yüzün münferit ksmlar, mesela gözler ya da az, ya da gözler. 2. Lower Meersham’n kuzey iç kesimlerinin güneydousunda bulunan bakenti. Nüfus: 8,000,001, yaklak olarak. 3. Korku, 4. Üçüncü maddeye bakn. 5...
This October, Geoids Musical Theatre presents its latest musical comedy, The Addams Family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. She confides in her father and begs him not...
The second in a series of talks bringing together professionals from the arts, science, religion and philosophy, to ask: how can we help each other navigate and connect as fully as possible with the defining experiences of being human? Speakers: (tbc). Curated by Natasha Wood...
One student has disappeared. Nobody knows why. Everyone has an opinion. When a classmate is removed from school under suspicion of radicalisation, a group of teenagers are left alone to make sense of what has happened. As rumours spread and tensions rise, friendships are tested...
MIRRORS BY Ada Tsesmeli Edwards Twice awarded by the Cultural Centre of Northern Greece for Playwright & Direction About the performance There comes a moment in life when each of us must look into the mirror and face our own reflection. But how ready are we to truly confront...
Peter & the Wolf is a magical new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s much-loved musical masterpiece, featuring live music and dance. Created especially for 2-5 year olds and their grown-ups, this enchanting show introduces little ones to orchestral instruments, where each sound...
Professor Nathan Zangari is fading away. Once voted the sexiest professor on BBC2’s Open University, his highly celebrated archeo-linguistics paper on “Graffiti, Women and the Walls of Pompeii” is now but a distant memory. Now, he can’t sleep, he can’t get published, and… he...
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