Review: THE BANALITY OF EVIL: HANNAH ARENDT, FRANCE, 1940, Arcola Theatre
Doktor Arendt's ideas have never been more needed here than they are right now…
Doktor Arendt's ideas have never been more needed here than they are right now…
Extraordinary spectacle delivers in Murakami adaptation that doesn't quite land…
The Royal Ballet season opens on the main stage with a special programme: A Centenary Celebration. 100 years ago Ninette de Valois founded The Academy of Choreographic Art, and the rest is history. What followed was The Royal Ballet School and two companies. So sitting in the Royal Ballet and Opera …
Set in New York's East Village, Rent follows a group of young artists, musicians and friends, navigating love, ambition and creativity while trying to build lives on their own terms. Inspired by Puccini's La Bohème, this iconic musical captures the joy, uncertainty and resilience of a generation …
Intimate venue gets high production values to deliver a marvellous show…
Awe-inspiring revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods running until 9 January, 2027.…
Shirley Jackson’s 1959 gothic novel skyrocketed back to recognition in 2018 when it inspired Mike Flanagan’s Netflix sensation of the same name. It’s time for theatre to get its share now, with Stef Smith (of Nora: A Doll’s House fame) adapting Jackson’s original material into a ghostly ex…
It's been a long wait since London last saw Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical rock masterpiece that won four Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer. It's unlikely that any of the cast of the 30th anniversary revival of RENT was out of nappies when the show debuted off-Broadway, but the themes…
Jenny Seagrove reprises her role as a woman claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, in a touring production.…
There’s a constant thread of wanting running through the centre of Mei Leng Yew’s debut play. Telling a story of queerness, ancestry, and immigrant families, it’s a compelling narrative that feels both broad and specific, brought to life with bold movement and direction.…
13 total · showing 1–10

Man-meat meets mental health in this dark comedy. In a dark corner of the internet, two men find each other. They meet in a coffee shop, chat, make plans... Think you know where this story is going? Think again. Two men meet in a coffee shop, having previously only spoken...

Winner of the 2026 VCA Playwriting Award “I’m not going to die happy, I’m going to die really fucking angry and I want people on Radio 4 to hear all about it.” Zara is dying. But she’s not about to go out without making some noise. At seventeen, with a terminal diagnosis and a...

"It's always been the end." The sky's on fire and everything's falling apart. Out of options, inseparable trio Ash, Oliver, and Kieron have retreated to their old childhood hangout to figure out what the plan is – or whether there's even one at all. That’s until Phoebe turns up...

Dive into an energetic and fresh telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream, presented by an all-female and non-binary company. Step into a world where young lovers flee the corporate city for the freedom of the forest - a place where everyone can express themselves freely… until a...

A Terminator built with Windows 95 must time travel back to Dudley to save the world and find out the truth about her life.


“ There are stories in everything. If only you know where to look.” It’s Christmas Eve and Isla is lost. Wandering through the vaults and tunnels of Waterloo, she is searching for something – a gift for her mother, after a tumultuous year past. But nothing’s quite right. Until...

It’s been five years since LADYLIKES took the world (okay, pockets of Brighton, London and Edinburgh) by storm with their debut Top Secret House Party! Now, after a pandemic, political chaos, and turning thirty, these two lost millennials are back with their new work-in-progress...

T(EA) - BOY is a genre and gender bending poetic mashup of physical theatre, clowning and cabaret. Using distortion through movement, lip sync, projection and audience participation. You are the tea bag in my cup, let me bathe you in queer and trans voices. There is room for joy...

Inspired in part by the real-life friendship between the playwright’s mother of two and renowned mountaineer Alison Hargreaves - who lost her life on K2

Fusing tender romantic comedy with dreamlike storytelling, Isabella Waldron’s The Watch is a contemporary love story exploring the delicate dance between time, intimacy, and identity.