If the Last Night is about waving Union Jacks until arms ache, the First Night had some of that feeling too — albeit a different flag. The Proms this time around will commemorate the 250th anniversary of United States declaring bye-bye to Blighty and plotting its own course into history. Before th…
After their appearance at the London Coliseum in 2024, the State Ballet of Georgia return to the capital with a brand new version of Swan Lake. The Tbilisi-based company’s draw is its artistic director, the venerated ballerina Nina Ananiashvili, who performed in the Bolshoi and American Ballet C…
During his near-half century leading the FBI, J Edgar Hoover used illegal surveillance techniques on thousands of Americans allegedly connected with communism, curbed the influence of civil rights leaders, and caused damage to the US labour movement from which it has never recovered. A high-camp com…
What does home mean to you? Is it the place, the people, the bricks and mortar? Liz Richardson's autobiographical one-woman show is a gentle look at what home means to your identity and how the environment of your childhood can influence your later life.…
The culture wars surrounding grooming gangs have never felt more poisonous. With the right-wing press champing at the bit to use organised child abuse as fodder for anti-immigrant narratives, and the details of how such abuse actually occurs hidden in the weeds of abandoned inquiries, there is somet…
A contemporary family wakes up in a Greek myth and can’t seem to find a way out of their hellish destiny. Writer and director Simon Stone is joined by the same creative team that brought the “fantastically original, gripping and magnificent” (The Guardian) The Lady from the Sea to life; set de…
There is a dig at Simon Stone in the National Theatre's new Misanthrope, a jab at ultra-contemporary classical reboots staged in rotating glass boxes, the Australian auteur's calling card. His adaptions of Phaedra and Yerma turn his actors into caged zoo animals prowling around their confines wait…
With Rent set to return to the West End in September, now feels like the right time for The Jonathan Larson Project, a retrospective of what the composer Jonathan Larson did before he wrote the classic East Village-set tale of life and love amid the AIDs crisis.…
A queer romance-thriller mash-up sounds an ambitious undertaking, so one must applaud writer Eleanor Tindall and director Emily Aboud for giving it a go. However, this revival at the Bush Theatre in west London doesn't quite come together, despite laudable performances from a young, animated cast.…
Tom Wentworth and Stephanie Kempson’s new reimagining of the beloved novel The Secret Garden has inclusivity and accessibility fused into its core from the ground up, and the result is an adaptation that boasts charm by the bucketload.…
Monarchs Anonymous is a riotous historical comedy from Welsh production company Ceridwen Theatre Company, throwing history's most notorious monarchs, including Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette, and...
THE SAGA OF W.D. JONESA QUEER RETELLING OF THE STORY OF BONNIE AND CLYDEIt could’ve been Buddy and Clyde – not Bonnie and Clyde.W.D. Jones was recruited...
‘JILTED’Musical Bites Concert: The Other Palace: Nov 8th 1.30pmA New Original Musical You’ll Want To Run Away With ‘Lauryn Gaffney is one of the best...
Using the language of Shakespeare, audience suggestions, and the actors’ imaginations, ShakeItUp perform a completely new and made-up Shakespeare style play live on stage each night, complete...
“The Strange Affair of Herschel Grynszpan” is a radical new musical workshop, based on the true story of a teenage assassin.It is 1938. A young...
A powerful new play about womanhood, blackness and healing by award-winner writer and performer Julene Robinson (The Witcher, Netflix; Get up, Stand Up!, London West...
DORIAN A Rock MusicalInspired by Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian GrayWho am I, really?What is love?Dorian Gray, the secret child of love and death...
"Im six years old, about to watch Hello Dolly starring Barbra Streisand for the first time, and Im terrified." After a sold-out debut at The...
Gary Bland returns to The Other Palace with a celebration of one of the UKs most successful singers Matt Monro. With a voice described by...
This is the premiere of a new American musical. It’s laugh out loud funny and will convert even non-musical theatre fans. Like an awesome buddy...
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