Upcoming Shows
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.
by Clementine Scott - March 07, 2026
When it premiered at Soho Theatre in 2012, Blink was a whimsical oddity, an ode to two eccentric loners falling in love. In 2026, it takes on a darker tone, with the subtitle “a parasocial love story” foreshadowing things to come....
by Gary Naylor - March 08, 2026
Musical set in the late 1950s with a strong message for today...
by Clementine Scott - March 06, 2026
Her name may not be widely known today, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s musical legacy is felt down the decades. George Brant’s play about her relationship with gospel singer Marie Knight is retelling not just a woman’s life, but the birth of an entire new genre....
by Christiana Rose - March 07, 2026
A revival marking twenty years of a remarkable education initiative, Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank: Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe demonstrates accessible theatre at its very best. Directed by Lucy Cuthbertson, this fast paced ninety minute production captures the essence of Shak...
by Louise Penn - March 06, 2026
Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr. With striking visuals and compositions, it is an original and modern take on a familiar part of history....
by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 05, 2026
Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, marks the first production for Michael Sheen’s Welsh National Theatre. After selling out across Welsh venues, this understated gem of a play moves west to give audiences of the Rose Theatre a chance to see what this exciting new company can do....
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....
Past Shows
Set in post-riot Teesside, "Tenner Bag" is a raw and gripping drama about family, survival, and the dark underbelly of a town on the brink....
26-year-old spoken-word artist, Rene, is navigating the aftermath of her first queer relationship, which ended when her ex, who was grappling with her own closeted...
Fruitcake is a confident, funny, sexually liberated person who has never needed anyone else. So why is she so drawn to the strange girl in...
After a tragic accident, introverted scientist David finds himself incapable of moving on from the past until his newest invention succeeds and his recently deceased...
Following a blisteringly successful run as part of Camden Fringe, the comedy caper returns to the Hope for just two more performances!Ready Steady Crooks! is a...
A new tragic comedy by Jack Stacey (The Play That Goes Wrong, West End), directed by Zachary Hart (Julius Caesar, The Bridge). Set in a...
“He looked the same as anyone else. Any of the other ones who come in. White boys. So I didn’t clock anything different, cos there...
"Marriage is a slippery thing…". Vanbrugh’s 1697 comedy is relocated to a modern music festival where revellers drink, dance and get up to mischief. The Provoked...
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