BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME

by Gary Naylor - April 24, 2026

The Beatles' first manager flies too close to John Lennon's sun and falls to earth...

by Clementine Scott - April 21, 2026

Virginia Woolf isn’t the easiest author to adapt for the stage, and her lesser-known 1931 experimental novel The Waves presents a particularly interesting dramaturgical challenge. Six friends meet at school, and undergo the typical trials of a bildungsroman, all within an ambitious stream of multi...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 21, 2026

First seen at last year's Edinburgh fringe, Jules Coyle's semi-verbatim play, Managed Approach, now comes to Riverside Studios for a short, but important run. Between 2014 and 2020, a local government initiative in Holbeck, Leeds allowed sex workers to operate under certain regulations and was know...

by Cindy Marcolina - April 21, 2026

“I’m just here to talk about my divorce,” says Yousef Sweid right after a preamble about the reception of political productions. He and Isabella Sedlak write a poignant reflection on how beliefs and birthplaces raise us and shackle us at once. Between The River and The Sea approaches the Pales...

by Matthew Paluch - April 20, 2026

Sir Wayne McGregor was appointed Resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet in 2006, the first from a contemporary dance background, and here we are 20 years later acknowledging that fact with a triple bill of his work for the company called Alchemies....

by Cheryl Markosky - April 18, 2026

If you like your theatre to be undeniably avant-garde, then trot along to Notting Hill's Coronet Theatre and see The Wooster Group's Nayatt School Redux. Baffling and bewildering – but never boring – this experimental, multi-media production from a New York company that's been going for over 50 ...

by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 17, 2026

On Avenue Q, puppets and people intermingle in this show about the trials and tribulations of life as a grown-up: love, sex, money, race, and how to tell your roommate he’s gay. After two decades, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q has returned to the West End in all its glory. ...

by Matthew Paluch - April 17, 2026

The Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet and Opera felt transformed last night for the opening of International Draft Works 2026 - but not always by the choreography....

by Aliya Al-Hassan - April 17, 2026

The puppet show pumped full of profanity is back. Jason Moore's outrageous Avenue Q premiered in the West End two decades ago, bringing issues such as racism, the housing crisis and youth identity crisis to the stage in a unique and incredibly clever format. Oh yes, and there is explicit puppet se...

by Gary Naylor - April 16, 2026

Superb ensemble cast and inspired staging puts us on the hook for an unspoken oppression...