Rules Schmules. Etcetera Theatre.
Suzie Depreli’s cabaret monologue Rules Schmules: How to be Jew-ISH offers up an engaging mashup of original songs, personal anecdotes, and [...]
Our Brothers in Cloth. Cockpit Theatre.
Set in rural Ireland in 1995, Ronan Colfer’s Our Brothers in Cloth is a reminder how much that nation has opened [...]
A Chorus Line. Sadler’s Wells.
Close to 50 years on from the show’s original trail-blazing Broadway outing much of A Chorus Line’s famed gritty verbatim realism [...]
Goodbye Mr Coffee. Courtyard Theatre.
After a long career in children’s publishing, writer and performer Brian Voakes approaches retirement with a determination to find something else [...]
One And The Other. Etcetera Theatre.
Hats off to Fadi Malo and Aidan Cottreau for overcoming that Fringe rite of passage: performing to an audience of one [...]
Just Like Hollywood. Etcetera Theatre.
Melanie Stewart and John Clancy’s 55-minute slice of disjointed absurdism Just Like Hollywood was apparently conceived as a response to the [...]
The Future Looks Bright. Etcetera Theatre.
The Future Looks Bright proclaims the title of Büke Erkoç’s and Ersin Yaşar’s single-hander adaptation of a short story by fellow [...]
Fluff. Theatre503.
Tayla Kenyon and James Piercy’s cleverly structured and well performed single-hander Fluff covers familiar territory: the crushing burden of dementia. Their [...]
The Defamation. Riverside Studios.
Jen Tucker’s underworked The Defamation sees dying women despatched to a female-only afterlife, there to face trial by a jury of [...]
Skeleton Crew. Donmar Warehouse.
Premiered off-Broadway in 2016 and nominated for Best New Play Tony award in 2022, Skeleton Crew is part of LA-based writer [...]
The Voice of the Turtle. Jermyn Street Theatre.
In the three decades between 1925 and 1955 Welsh-born writer John Van Druten enjoyed significant if fleeting success as a purveyor [...]
Chilli Con Carne. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
“I’m excited to see you but I’m effing furious too” says grieving 28 year-old schoolteacher and short-story writer Ash. Well, what [...]
George. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicked off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Secret Garden. Regent’s Park Outdoor Theatre.
The trigger warnings for Holly Robinson and Anna Himali Howard’s version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s much loved children’s novel The Secret [...]
The Dao Unrepresentative. Soho Theatre.
The show blurb for Daniel York Loh’s semi-autobiographical The Dao Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience describes the work as a “psychedelic gig-theatrical [...]
Wet Feet. Union Theatre.
“You’re a new gay aren’t you” self-confident, twenty-something Nathan tells his uninvited guest Franko. The latter has gate-crashed Nathan’s private room [...]
Any Day Now. Etcetera Theatre.
Evie, the protagonist of Martia Dimmer’s debut one-woman show Any Day Now, ruminates about death, hers and other people’s, at least [...]
Hole. Old Red Lion Theatre.
“It’s a story about hunger” the eponymous Hole, who has been diagnosed with an eating disorder, tells us at the outset [...]
The Rest Of Our Lives. Battersea Arts Centre.
The entranceway trigger warning for The Rest Of Our Lives, George Orange and Jo Fong’s mash-up of dance, physical theatre, stand-up, [...]
Being Mr Wickham. Jermyn Street Theatre.
Adrian Lukis’ one-man show Being Mr Wickham has, like Jane Austen’s titular character from Pride and Prejudice, been on a peripatetic [...]
The Hunger Artist. Etcetera Theatre.
Franz Kafka’s trademark absurdity, sense of alienation from society, and all-pervading tone of anxiety are omnipresent in his final published short [...]
Joe Carstairs. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicks off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Work We Do. White Bear Theatre.
Cerys Jones agreeable comedy drama The Work We Do sees an odd-couple of voice actors meet for the first time at [...]
Houdini’s Greatest Escape. King’s Head Theatre.
Feargus Woods Dunlop’s spoof detective comedy Houdini’s Great Escape sees the famous escapologist and wife Bess on a pre-first world war [...]