Music: Alla Sirenko Libretto & Words: Olha Shvets A Ukrainian composer responding to the powerful and urgent story of Azovstal. A presentation of the new opera Azovstal with some music highlights in a concert form, followed by a talk with the composer and librettist and a Q&A...
Broken Ivy Music: Florence Lloyd Libretto: Vivian Bayliss Fence Off Music: Ruben Doda Libretto: Rebekah King Broken Ivy & Fence Off are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging composers from the Royal Academy of Music. The evening brings two worlds onto one stage: a vivid...
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...
Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things Music: Ng Kwun Ho / Jerry Fryderyk Libretto: Courtney Cousins Meet The Philips Music: Alessandro Mackinnon-Botti Libretto: Wilkie Robson Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things and Meet The Philips are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging...
Notated music and performance: CN Lester Electronic music and soundscapes: IL Libretto, direction, spoken word performance: Jamie Hale This 60 minute hybrid work strips Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to its core question: is it right to create new life in a fractured and suffering...
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Please be aware that this month, Re-enchant will be up in Studio 1. This is accessible via a spiral staircase only. There are also less seats, so make sure you grab a ticket. Martina Evans will be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax. There are likely very few famous actors (never mind Oscar winners) queuing …
“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.…
What did our critic think of MERE MORTALS at Sadler's Wells?…
What did our critic think of INTERVIEW: 'IT MAKES ME FEEL LUCKY TO JUST BE HERE,' THE WEST END CAST OF INTO THE WOODS at Noël Coward Theatre?…
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…
What did our critic think of PREVIEW: INTO THE WOODS, LAUNCH EVENT at Noël Coward Theatre?…
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Welcome to The Clowns (Work in Progress) A heartfelt musical comedy in the round about a circus family falling apart — and finding their way back through love, laughter, and a whole lot of mess. Set within Cirque du Vitae, where ambition, illusion, and imperfection collide in...
Long Pause Productions presents Houses Apart, a comedy that explores the more complicated aspects of what it means to be a family. Set in the Essex countryside, the sudden death of Andrew Bennett brings together his five estranged children for the very first time. Now adults...
Frances is a neuroscientist on the brink of a breakthrough. When an old friend asks for help she is faced with a terrible choice: let him suffer alone or risk it all for his salvation.
SOLO is an intimate exploration of how trauma, mental health, and obsession—combined with isolation and a culture increasingly focused on material success and popularity—can fragment and erode a person's identity, slowly pulling them into an unstoppable downward spiral.
Brief Play About Rage is a chilly comedy-drama about a couple who host the worst guest imaginable. When Nell, an old friend of Val’s, comes to visit, she brings bizarre confrontations, backhanded compliments, and tales of absurd violence, all of which begin to unravel Val and...
Bond is dead. Craig's out. Enter Sandin...Carlos Sandin – the new undercover hero we never knew we needed. To revive the world's most famous spy we return to the very beginning. A clown's absurd adventure in espionage, expect action, live-music and multi-roling like you've never...
Try to think about the worst thing you’ve ever done. Rate it on a scale of 1-10. Now think about your intention behind it, the actions from others and yourself that led you there. Rate it again. Has it changed? Improved or worsened? How easy was that task for you? Would it be...
Have you ever dreamed of being magical? Have you waited for the owl that carries the magical letter to knock on your window? When Miracle, a non-magical girl yearning for a place in the world of magic, is unexpectedly accepted into an elite academy, she defies her mother to...
Following the success of the show at the beginning of 2025, Larius Productions are delighted to be bringing Exit Who back to the Cockpit. Mystery writer Crane and her secretary Kate become entangled in a new mystery while renting a country holiday home. It is revealed that the...
Journey through one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies as mistaken identity, song, drunken behaviour, unrequited love and a pair of yellow stockings transport you to a world of wonder. Split by a shipwreck, twins Viola and Sebastian unravel a prank-filled plot like no other...
