It has a premise that borders on sci-fi, but at its heart Memoriam is a family drama. This Papatango-shortlisted play follows Jewish siblings Rachel and David, their grandmother – the last remaining Holocaust survivor – and the way generational trauma both divides them and brings them back toget…
Not all heroes wear capes. Garry Starr’s mission is to save literature (or at least the books printed in Penguin’s series of orange-and-black paperbacks) and he’s going to do it looking like a Tudor prince who has come straight from an nudist beach.…
How can you be true to yourself when feminism is a commodity, your brand is everything, and sex is only the means to an end? Regrettably, Reilly doesn’t add much to the conversation. She introduces a character, Danni, who’s given the opportunity to become the next big thing in the sex-positive p…
Halloween is the season when London’s theatres let the bats out of the belfry, and any venue with a draughty corridor suddenly has a ghost story to sell. Battersea Arts Centre has gone one better. It has cast itself as the haunted house, and in Immersive Octopus’s latest stab at a scare, the bui…
London City Ballet (LCB) is a company on the rise. Christopher Marney’s rebirth of the company was only three years ago. Now they are filling the house at Sadler’s Wells with the great and the good of the ballet world present for opening night.…
After being taken on a lengthy tour of the UK and Ireland, Only Human comes to the West End as Brown’s first appearance since 2022’s Showman, a post-pandemic show filled with highly personal insights. Its follow-up Unbelievable saw Brown remain backstage as co-creator, writer and co-director (al…
While both the film and the autobiography have entered our cultural heritage as testimonies of the Nazi era – the poverty it brought, its violence, its misery – this new rendition inhabits a different realm. Thom Southerland debuts Szpilman’s own compositions in an invariably morose piece of t…
It’s Les Mis if you squint. A musical based on turbulent French history, doomed love, and flags brandished like a crusaders’ Warhammers. Except this is not the longest running musical in West End history. This is its weird cousin Martin Guerre.…
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained. Bryan Louiselle takes over the musical aspect, adapting and producing the soundtrack as well as writing new songs. David Simpatico writes the book: his script can be a bit cheesy and strai…
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact. Danny Lee Wynter's new work, Ilford Boy is a witty, sensitive and beautifully performed piece of theatre that will warm your soul and break your heart…
Award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye ( The Price of Everything; Instructions for Border Crossing ) will returns with his first solo show in seven years, Imaginary Friends. The show tells the story of a struggling TV comedian who begins to listen to the wrong voices in his...
A Terrible Show for Terrible People is a raunchy, feminist physical theatre clown show with one performer and two spoken words. Described by Fest as “Benny Hill meets surprisingly friendly sex dungeon; delightful perverted nonsense,” A Terrible Show for Terrible People is a...
Disguised as a man, Anne Bonny stows away on Captain Calico Jack’s pirate ship and becomes his lover. When fellow gender-bending seafarer Mary Read crawls aboard, the ship’s course isn’t the only thing that’s no longer straight. Breaking hearts and gender boundaries, the...
'If you don’t want it, I mean, it’s a bit fucking weird… isn’t it? You’re just a guy in an alien costume.' Two couples each invite a stranger into their homes with hope of sparking new life. Instead, they find themselves threatened by invasion, alienation, and abduction… Direct...
Best friends Mohsen and Kash are gearing up for the biggest night of their lives Jess Denver's pool party. There's just one problem... they can't swim.Fuelled by halal Haribo and chicken wings, the pair throw themselves in at the deep end, tackling cramped cubicles and cold...
Will Jackson has accidentally stolen 300-second-class stamps from the post office.But he's making them count.Hes going to write letters. From reconnecting with old friends and ex-boyfriends to run-ins with the marketing department at John Lewis, stamp collecting has never looked...
Winner of the Netflix supported Stage to Screen New Voice Award 2020, Algorithms is a queer solo theatre show returning to London for one week only this December. Brooke thinks she has it all: the job, the flat, the girlfriend but what happens when things go tits up just before...
The inherently funny Zoe Lyons has announced a new UK tour for 2018 & 2019. The show, entitled ‘Entry Level Human’. The tour takes in 42 dates and starts on 14th September in Ivybridge culminating on 21st February in Bordon. This show is the follow up to 2016’s ‘Little Misfit’...
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