The P Word. Bush Theatre.
The Bush Theatre has had a terrific year so far with new plays that explore the experiences and expectations of Black [...]
The Real. The Cockpit Theatre.
Linnea Langfjord Kristensen’s The Real, currently playing at the Cockpit Theatre, offer a dystopian vision of a world bent on ensuring [...]
John Gabriel Borkman. Bridge Theatre.
Mid-way through John Gabriel Borkman, Ibsen’s infrequently performed penultimate play, the eponymous protagonist comments (at least in Adapter Lucinda Coxon’s solid [...]
Dido’s Bar. Royal Docks.
Writer Hattie Naylor and director Josephine Burton’s new immersive theatre and music production, Dido’s Bar, has promising components. These include the [...]
Naughty. Hens & Chickens Theatre.
Andrew Houghton’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age monologue Naughty had a successful run at the 2021 Camden Fringe. This year’s outing at the Hens [...]
The Pill. Bread & Roses Theatre.
The birth control pill has been around for decades. It has given a hundreds of millions of women a remarkable level [...]
The Gretchen Question. The Shipwright Theatre.
Melly Still and Max Barton’s The Gretchen Question, currently running at the stunningly situated outdoor Shipwright Theatre, starts well. It is [...]
A Night At The Kabuki. Sadler’s Wells.
What if Romeo and Juliet survived? It is a question not unknown to dramatists, the current West End production of & [...]
Sherlock Holmes: Valley of Fear. Greenwich Theatre.
Bracknell based touring company Blackeyed Theatre has had something of a success in recent years with well-produced, reassuring, and true-to-the-book adaptations [...]
Arthur’s Seat. Lion & Unicorn Theatre.
Arthur’s Seat, currently playing at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, is about five pre-university teenage friends on an exhausting hangover hike [...]
The Benefits of Disabled Sex. King’s Head Theatre.
The title of Sonny Howes’ touching and very funny mashup of monologue, verse, and a song, The Benefits of Disabled Sex, [...]
The Clinic. Almeida Theatre.
The Clinic, Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s much anticipated new dark comedy drama at the Almeida Theatre, has a favourable enough central conceit. Place [...]
And. The Place.
Charlotte Mclean’s one-woman show And draws together music, dance, poetry, and prose into an intimate, powerful, and deeply affecting 45 minutes [...]
Peaceophobia, Here East
Peaceophobia, currently running at Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Car Park as part of The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, is an [...]
Rehab The Musical. Playground Theatre.
It is difficult to know what to expect from a show with a title like Rehab The Musical. Perhaps a satirical [...]
Help! We Are Still Alive. Seven Dials Playhouse.
Imogen Palmer and Tim Gilvin’s kind-hearted musical two-hander Help! We Are Still Alive gives us a modest and familiar scenario and [...]
Brawn. Kings Head Theatre.
Christopher Wollaton’s Brawn has something to say about the psychology of male body dysmorphia, but as a story it lacks substance. [...]
Horizons : A 21st Century Space Odyssey. The O2.
31 August 2022 Early on in Professor Brian Cox’s Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey, co-host Robin Ince poses one of [...]
Bad Jews. Arts Theatre.
Joshua Harmon's 2012 comedy Bad Jews gets a decent revival at The Arts aided by a cracking performance from Rosie Yadid. [...]
Frydays. Camden People’s Theatre.
25 August 2022 On paper, an absurdist allegorical urban fairy tale, set to music and based partly in a fish and [...]
Defective Inspector. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
24 August 2022 Harrison Cole’s uninspiring spoof detective comedy, Defective Inspector had an outing at the Brighton Fringe in spring 2019 [...]
Delusions and Grandeur. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
21 August 2022 How many opportunities are there in life to see a one-woman clown cello show? Not numerous perhaps, but [...]
Unstitching. Etcetera Theatre.
23 August 2022 Consider for a moment the components from which Ruby Shrimpton has engineered her touching, warm, and funny one-woman [...]
Some Boy You Are. The Cockpit Theatre.
19 August 2022 It is the long, hot summer of 2017. Hopes are high. England’s new football manager is settling in. [...]