Macbeth (An Undoing). Rose Theatre Kingston.
Writer and director Zinnie Harris has, she tells us in the show blurb for Macbeth (An Undoing), “a lifelong curiosity about [...]
No More Mr Nice Guy. Catford Broadway Theatre.
At 24 Keloughn gave up his dreams of being a big star to become a music teacher. “Music was my woman” [...]
Romeo and Juliet. The Globe Theatre.
Playing Shakespeare is Shakespeare’s Globe’s flagship partnership for secondary schools, offering up an action-packed, paired down 90-minute version of a key [...]
The Lonely Londoners. Jermyn Street Theatre.
Leading dramatist Roy Williams has a consistent fascination with Black British identity, most recently explored in the National Theatre’s inspiring Death [...]
Scarlet Sunday. Omnibus Theatre.
“Art is what you can get away with,” intones a cynical Andy Warhol. But what can an artist get away with [...]
A Song For Ella Grey. Theatre Peckham.
There are tangibles and intangibles in Zoe Cooper’s enjoyable adaptation of prominent young adult writer David Almond’s mystical and dreamlike coming [...]
Blonde Poison. Playground Theatre.
Playground Theatre’s five-week season celebrating the work of much admired and prestigiously productive writer Gail Louw, kicks off with a production [...]
Double Feature. Hampstead Theatre.
After nearly four decades in show business, Tony Award-winning playwright and Oscar nominee screenwriter John Logan probably knows as much as [...]
The Trial of Jemmy Button. The Calder Bookshop & Theatre.
In May 1830 Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, takes on board a 14-year old boy called Orundellico from a nomadic [...]
Lear’s Shadow. Jack Studio Theatre.
At the centre of Shakespeare’s King Lear sit the issues of identity and self-knowledge. Can you remain a monarch if you [...]
The Frogs. Kiln Theatre.
“What a queer bird the frog is” performers Toby Park and Aitor Basauri chant at the outset of The Frogs, the [...]
Two Rounds. Jermyn Street Theatre.
If there is a central theme to the work of the hugely successful Italian director, screenwriter, and novelist Cristina Comencini it [...]
The Good John Proctor. Jermyn Street Theatre.
Towards the end of The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s master work about the 1690s Salam Witch trials, his protagonist asks rhetorically of [...]
One Year Itch. Barons Court Theatre.
Tania is horny as hell but has still just bailed from a blind date on the pretence that her father is [...]
Drop Dead. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Will Bebach is stinking rich, the fortuitous result of some dodgy “pump-and-dump” stock market shenanigans. He has an “ego big enough [...]
The Motive And The Cue. Noël Coward Theatre.
“The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King” says the Price Of Denmark early in act two [...]
Christmas Is Cancelled. Etcetera Theatre.
Kate Ghotti is one of the most successful TV personalities in the UK. She is also one of the most odious [...]
Pandemonium. Soho Theatre.
Forged and blessed by the immortals Zeus, Achilles, and Jehovah, Orbis Rex declares, as the “lifeforce” that is his blond wig [...]
Puss In Boots. Wonderville.
Above The Stag, the UK’s only exclusively LGBT+ theatre production company, is still without a permanent home more than a year [...]
A They in the Manger. Camden People’s Theatre.
Trans performance artist and playwright Danielle James writes in the show blurb “I want audiences to come away from A They [...]
The Time Machine. Park Theatre.
Dave, the self-satisfied, pompous, and misogynistic creator of The Time Machine: A Comedy, currently at the Park Theatre, promises the show [...]
The Moonwalkers. Lightroom.
The Lightroom, the cube-like, subterranean, four-storey show-space in King’s Cross designed by award-winning production company 59 Productions, had a hit with [...]
Dreaming and Drowning. Bush Theatre.
Every night for the last 4 weeks first-year English Lit student and supernatural fiction fan Malachi has had the same terrible [...]
A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story. Alexandra Palace Theatre.
Mark Gatiss’s faithful, indeed reverential adaptation of Dicken’s classic, first seen in 2021, gets a welcome revival at the gloriously gothic [...]