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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PlayGC Theatre Present... Can't Kill the Spirit By Robert Gordon Clark Directed by Lucy Aley-Parker A husband, children, a career — a whole life has passed since Chloe made a stand at Greenham Common. Forty years later, a climate protest leads to life-changing consequences, and...
Returns in March 2025 by popular demand after sell out runs in 2023 & 2024 Adam Roebuck presents F**king Men by Joe DiPietro The Fringe Classic, Raw and Updated...IS BACK AGAIN! After two complete SELL OUT seasons in 2023 and 2024 the hit play F**king Men by Tony-winning Joe...
This hilarious Off-Broadway hit, set in a run-down apartment on Staten Island, sees three roommates coming to a crisis during one frantic Christmas weekend. Terry, an out-of-work actor who can’t keep a job or get a date, spends his days swilling cheap vodka and playing referee...
Edinburgh 2024 Preview The Threepenny Collective presents ‘ Corpse Flower’, a darkly comedic stylised world, where young factory worker Millie confronts unsettling truths as her home town becomes overrun by scheming insect impostors. A visually innovative tale unfolds as she...
F**king Men by Joe DiPietro The Fringe Classic, Raw and Updated... The hit play F**king Men by Tony-winning Joe DiPietro returns to London in a new updated version for 2023 This dramatic comedy follows ten men through a series of erotic encounters that change their lives in...
Can't Wait To Leave by Stephen Leach Meet Ryan. 19 (but young for his age). School drop-out (but smart). Turkey sandwich enthusiast (365 days a year). Absolute stunner (no addendum). He's new in town, and all he wants to do is check out. The hard part is coming up with an exit...
Sam, the head of IT startup "SupportMe" (current valuation, £8.74, if we include the half used box of tea-bags) has just initiated a nuclear missile countdown with his bottom. This is scary, but also embarassing. Utilising his team's experience of prank calling corporate...
San Francisco. 1986.When Harry, an amiable but lonely retired kosher butcher fulfills a writing assignment to compose a letter to someone from his past who's dead, he writes not to his late wife Frannie but to Harvey Milk, the first openly gay political leader in California...
This award-winning play focuses on the lives of three generations of women:Dorothea; her daughter, Artie; and Artie's sixteen-year-old daughter, Echo. Through fragmented vignettes we see the lives of the three women as they struggle to define themselves both as individuals and...
Lyndon Samuel & AR Productions presentThe Juniper TreeA new musical based on the story by The Brothers GrimmMusic by Lyndon SamuelBook and Lyrics by Robert GouldThe Juniper Tree is one of the most gruesome of the Brothers Grimm tales.This musical presentation explores the themes...
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