Patrick Hamilton’s bleak portrait of 1920s London arrives on stage in a new adaptation by Simon Reade, exploring the fragile connections between those searching for love, belonging and something more.…
Returning to Covent Garden for the first time since it waltzed off with an Olivier in 2022, Richard Jones’ Alcina is ravishing to look at, a joy to hear and its clever design motifs still stand out from the crowd.…
Thelma & Louise works as a musical and, more importantly, matters as a comment on why these two women made the choices they did. There's always something to catch the eye in this emotional show.…
There's an indecently good chance that you will walk out of Jill's Tupperware Party very different to how you came in. It may be because you now have a brand new attitude to those leftovers that have been mouldering away in the fridge for the past week. Or maybe its the shiny new hairnet over your h…
What did our critic think of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE at Salisbury Playhouse?…
Clifford Odets' 1937 indictment of consumer society gets a big revival, but proves a souless waste of acting talent…
Anne Frank. Jeff Mangum. And Salty Brine. Maybe especially Salty Brine. If the audience takes one thing away from this tremendous show, it is that one individual can illuminate an entire world.…
It’s the mid-80s and India is changing. A young girl is growing up surrounded by nature under a blue sky until the landscape starts to transform. A factory rises right on her doorstep, and its fumes cloud the heavens. One night, everything changes. The American pesticide plant leaks 32 tons of tox…
“It’s tradition, Oliver. Traditions are important”, so says Dawn in the Inside No. 9 episode “Last Night of the Proms”, explaining the actions of the Prommers during the Fantasia on British Sea-Songs section of the concert to her teenage nephew. Anyone at the Royal Albert Hall (or watching…
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 …
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Camden, 1985. Behind the door of a London terrace, a queer Irish household is cobbling together a life filled with humour, drag, and a freedom they could never have imagined back home. But their community is on the edge of their greatest challenge yet. Being Irish in the UK is...
Comedy producer Mike Reiss won four Emmys during his thirty-six years writing movie scripts, American TV shows and countless episodes of The Simpsons . ‘Entertainment Weekly’ called Season 4 of The Simpsons “the greatest season of the greatest show in history”. Mike Reiss...
The year is 2049: A lone pirate sails the Straits of Melaka under a red sky… until a storm throws seafarers from across time and space onto the same ship. The pirates struggle for power – and acceptance – make enemies – and friends. As the budding-bickering crew sail through...
Butterfly Eye Productions ’ new totally absurd and slightly horrific Extravaganza comes to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for its premiere run this July. An imaginative, physical and text-led exploration of how illness is not only biological, but emotional, social and generational...
Got the blues? Well, step right up, because The Jive Aces are bringing their "Feelin’ Happy" Tour to town, and it’s gonna flip your frown upside down! When these cats burst onto the stage in their signature yellow suits, you’ll be tapping your feet and grinning like a fool...
After sold-out performances at the 2025 Bath Jane Austen and Chawton Pride and Prejudice Festivals, the Cohen-Wingfield Duo — creators of the acclaimed Einstein's Violin — bring Pride and Prejudice in Words and Music to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for one night only. Gill Hornby's...
From the mind, and true lived experience, of Bonnie Oddie , That's Why Mums Go to Switzerland (Winner: Best Solo Show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival) is a blazing, darkly comic new play. This one-woman show steps into an exploration of assisted dying within modern family...
Highly-respected jazz musician Harry Sumner's world is turned upside down when Lorraine Tait, a complete stranger, arrives in his life. From the very moment she sits at his piano for her first lesson, Harry feels inspired, excited, and adored again. But Lorraine brings more than...
Folding together heartache and humour, Anna rediscovers the joys of living, learning, and - most importantly - eating, one recipe at a time. HOW TO MAKE A MESS is a delicious celebration of feeding yourself in every sense, through the exploration of recipes and the stories they...
Well-known local actor, Harry Meacher, entertains with tales from his life and long career - from being nearly thrown out of RADA, and then winning their top prize, through working with Laurence Olivier, to probably the most hilariously bad production of Hamlet ever! This show...
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