What Fresh Hell Is It? – The Libra Theatre Cafe
In Glenn T. Griffin’s engaging and insightful one-woman bioplay What Fresh Hell Is It?, the poet, short story writer, critic, and [...]
Playfight. Soho Theatre.
Writer Julia Grogan’s breathtakingly assured debut play arrives at Soho Theatre following stellar reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and a detour [...]
All The Happy Things. Soho Theatre.
Naomi Denny’s three-hander comedy-drama All The Happy Things covers familiar themes within a recognisable premise. A grieving protagonist comes to terms [...]
Telly. Bread and Roses Theatre.
The challenge with absurdist comedy is that many people do not find it funny. Laughing at the sheer weirdness of a [...]
The Women of Llarumney. Stratford East.
Playwright and screenwriter Azuka Oforka’s notable debut play, The Women of Llarumney, transfers to Theatre Royal Stratford East following a sold-out [...]
Kitty Dollparts. Camden People’s Theatre.
Rhiannon Lucy Bird's short one-woman performance piece, Kitty Dollparts & Other Performing Objects, mashes up verse, monologue, original song, and extensive [...]
Sisyphean Quick Fix. Riverside Studios.
Sisyphean Quick Fix, performer Bettina Paris’ debut work as a writer, premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe to a solid response. [...]
Tell Me You’ll Think About It. Hen & Chickens Theatre.
Mid-twenties theatre reviewer Phoebe is not impressed. The radical reworking of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata that she is asked to review proves to [...]
Weather Girl. Soho Theatre.
Brian Watkins’s adeptly crafted, California-set tragicomedy Weather Girl enjoyed a sold-out run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, garnering a clutch of [...]
Dear Martin. Arcola Theatre.
Martin is a murderous psychopath locked away in a high-security hospital that, he says, “is like the school in Harry Potter [...]
The Seagull. Barbican Theatre.
Even good productions of The Seagull—and, yes, Thomas Ostermeier’s bold, much anticipated, modern-day take is immensely entertaining—can struggle with the tonal [...]
Too Many Books. Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Renowned writer-director Mike Leigh, whose works are often rooted in the intricacies of social rank and identity, once proposed that British [...]
Remember Me. Ye Old Rose and Crown Theatre.
Most days, 14-year-old Stephy goes from school to visit her much-loved “Nana Penny” at the Sunnyside retirement home. The facility smells [...]
TRASH! Peacock Theatre.
Can it really be three decades since global mega hit Stomp, then in a production at Sadler’s Wells, garnered two Olivier nominations? [...]
East Is South. Hampstead Theatre.
East is South. Except, of course, the cardinal points of a compass tell us the statement is a logical paradox. East [...]
Stalled. King’s Head Theatre.
Best known for fringe, comedy, and LGBTQ+-themed writing, Islington’s King’s Head Theatre is leaning heavily into original musicals this year. Conceivably, [...]
Body Or Soul. Omnibus Theatre.
Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre’s residency of diverse productions and co-productions from the Chronic Insanity Theatre team moves towards its close with an [...]
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 [...]