One Who Wants To Cross. Finborough Theatre.
Marc-Emmanuel Soriano’s moving and deeply affecting story of migrants, One Who Wants To Cross, won multiple awards in the writer’s native [...]
Chekhov’s Dildo. The Hope Theatre
Russian playwright and author Anton Chekhov once said “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t [...]
Ballerina. The VAULT Festival.
Set in an unnamed country in Francophone Africa, Ballerina sees British diplomat Colin Clutterbuck (Dominique Izabella Little) arrested by the local [...]
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. Harold Pinter Theatre.
Sam Steiner’s debut two-hander Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered back in 2015 and since then has enjoyed several mostly well-received [...]
Jason. VAULT Festival.
One dark and cold evening in December 1966, film maker Shirley Clarke and her then partner, the actor Carl Lee, welcome [...]
All Falls Down. VAULT Festival.
All Falls Down, currently playing inside a dark and damp shipping container at the VAULT festival, sees creator and performer Joe [...]
Charlie and Stan. Wilton’s Music Hall.
Following a well-received run in 2020 and a regional revival in 2021, acclaimed theatre company Told by an Idiot’s gloriously inventive [...]
We Didn’t Come To Hell For The Croissants. Riverside Studios.
We Didn't Come To Hell For The Croissants sees South African performer Jemma Kahn act as a kind of modern day [...]
Mr Sister. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Over recent months comedy duo and sororal soulmates Brooke Jones and Holly Kellingray have garnered some 40,000 followers and 1.3 million [...]
Irrelevant. Seven Dials Playhouse.
Debbie Chazen is utterly scintillating as a bitter pill-popping alcoholic casting agent in Keith Merrill’s tribute to Hollywood and Hedda Gabler. [...]
Ingrown. Barons Court Theatre.
"There's a battle inside me between mind, body, and soul" says the unnamed protagonist of Ingrown, young writer and performer Emre [...]
Hakawatis: Women of the Arabian Nights. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Four women are locked in a palace dungeon. The stone floor is strewn with pots and pans and there are only [...]
The Grotto. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Toby Hampton’s deliciously dark comedy The Grotto is a perfect antidote to the saccharin sweet Christmas tales that occupy many a [...]
Mr Charles Dickens Presents. Greenwich Theatre.
There is some debate as to how many adaptations of A Christmas Carol adorn the London stage this festive season. The [...]
Nice Jewish Boy. Hope Theatre.
The challenges faced by young LGBT people brought up in traditionally conservative cultural or faith communities is a rich seam for [...]
Thatcher-Rite. Camden People’s Theatre.
Jack Boal’s one-person show Thatcher-Rite is a very strange creature. Part political performance art, part slapstick drag show (Boal lip syncs [...]
Bugsy Malone. Alexandra Palace Theatre.
Theatre Royal Bath and Birmingham Rep’s much admired touring revival of 2015 Lyric Hammersmith hit Bugsy Malone finally arrives in London, [...]
Jack. Chickenshed Theatre.
The Chickenshed Theatre must be admired for sheer scale of ambition with Jack! its heart-warming festive take on panto favourite Jack [...]
Top Hat. Mill At Sonning.
In the end it is the songs that matter in the Mill at Sonning’s terrific revival of Top Hat. The performances, [...]
Wasted. Jack Studio Theatre.
Brockley-raised writer, poet, and performer Kae Tempest has certainly had an extraordinary decade since their debut play, Wasted, was first performed [...]
A Sherlock Carol. Marylebone Theatre.
Christmas Eve, 1894. “Moriarty is dead, to begin with,” Sherlock Holmes (Ben Caplan) tells us at the outset of Mark Shanahan’s [...]
The Grammar of Witchcraft. Etcetera Theatre.
The Grammar Of Witchcraft, penned by pastor, poet, and Christian anarchist David Parry and currently running the Etcetera Theatre, is a [...]
Surviving Strangers. The Space.
Inyoung Lee’s two-hander Surviving Strangers has an admirably simple set-up. Data analyst Adam (Fred Arnot) bumps into newly arrived Korean visitor [...]
From Here To Eternity. Charing Cross Theatre.
After a couple of duds in Zorro and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, the Charing Cross Theatre finally has [...]