Milked. White Bear Theatre.
Written in 2013 and first seen a decade ago in a production at the Soho Theatre, Simon Longman’s slice of countryside-set [...]
Fresh Mountain Air. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Lana Del Rey’s ode to female unity and resilience, God Bless America And All the Beautiful Women In It, forms the [...]
Rodney Black: Who Cares? It’s Working. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Rodney Black is a tacky small-time comedian with a venal manager and a taste for nasty misogynism. “I’m a huge supporter [...]
The Woods. Courtyard Theatre.
First produced in 1977, David Mamet’s narrative-starved folk-horror fairy tale about relationships, power struggles, and existential musings, The Woods, gets a [...]
The Invention of Love. Hampstead Theatre.
Close to thirty years after its National Theatre debut, Tom Stoppard’s dense play about poet and classical scholar A.E. Housman, The [...]
Arsenal and No Trace. Collective Theatre.
Collective Theatre N7 producers Luna Laurenti, Al Hawkins, and Alessa Lewis draw on Joseph Kesselring’s 1940s Broadway megahit Arsenic And Old [...]
The Legends of Them. Royal Court Theatre.
Close to a decade in the making, Sutara Gayle’s autobiographical The Legends of Them, co-created by director Jo McInnes and dramaturg [...]
Hansel and Gretel. Shakespeare’s Globe.
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s wintry, polemical take on The Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel had a brief, troubled run at the [...]
The Snow Queen. Theatre At The Tabard.
Theatre At The Tabard’s approach to Christmas productions—traditional, even conservative child-friendly fare that eschews panto—has served the venue well in recent [...]
Twelfth Night. National Youth Theatre.
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's tale of love, mistaken identity, ambition, and revelry, gets a decidedly Christmassy take in the National Youth Theatre’s [...]
Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper. Charing Cross Theatre.
Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper’s annual adult celebration of all things crude, spectacularly rude, and cosily camp returns in top-notch form [...]
Expendable. Royal Court Theatre.
Between the 1990s and 2010s, cases of organised child sexual exploitation came to light in several northern towns. Long overdue investigations [...]
Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime. Jermyn Street Theatre.
The highly regarded chamber opera company Charles Court Opera's 17th annual production of what it describes as ‘boutique pantomime’ lands this [...]
Chop-chop. Barons Court Theatre.
Born and bred in Asturias to a Spanish mother and English father, bi-lingual performer and writer Andrea Holland devises and delivers [...]
Spent. Barons Court Theatre.
Nikoletta Soumelidis’ two-hander Spent runs the same story of a failing relationship over two evenings but alternates the gender of the [...]
Going For Gold. Park Theatre.
Lisa Lintott’s debut bioplay Going For Gold won three Black British Theatre Awards last year following a short run at the [...]
Phone. Courtyard Theatre.
Sam Taylor’s delightful ensemble comedy-drama Phone takes an extended excursion into Gen Z preoccupations and explores how smartphones can interfere with [...]
Sweetmeat. Old Red Lion Theatre.
Ivo de Jager’s gruesome and explicit two-hander Sweetmeat is one of those shows where you probably better pay attention to the [...]
For Three Refrigerators and One Washing Machine. Greenwood Theatre.
Based on real-life events, Kyriaki Mitsou's shocking slice of verbatim theatre For Three Refrigerators and One Washing Machine explores events that [...]
The Ungodly. Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Though set fifty years apart, it is hard to escape the shadow of Arthur Miller’s masterwork The Crucible when watching Joanna [...]
The Chemistry Test. Stage Door Theatre.
Jack Cray and Hannah Adams’ Sci-Fi comedy The Chemistry Test sees Artificial Intelligence androids Steve and Evie tasked with falling in [...]
Autumn. Park Theatre.
“The world exists, stories get made up,” says Elisabeth Demand, the protagonist of Ali Smith’s Booker-prize shortlisted novel Autumn, adapted for [...]
¡Viva!. Peacock Theatre.
Manuel Liñán is a celebrated figure in Spain for reasons beyond his astonishing technical mastery of dance and choreography. His popularity [...]
Statues. Bush Theatre.
The Bush Theatre has a rich history of programming new works by British Black and Asian writers, including a recent hit [...]