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 [...]
Tinderella – Two Balls One Happy Ending. Union Theatre.
For some the thought of pantomime with no children in the audience has manifest attractions. It is certainly an idea that [...]
KLAZO. Theatre Deli.
Klazo in ancient Greek means ‘to scream’. Klazomania describes a compulsion towards repetitive shouting, grunting, and barking, a mental state with [...]
Ghosts. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
In his diaries pre-war socialite, politician, and serial philanderer Duff Cooper describes a difficult evening visiting a 1920s production of Henrik [...]
Havisham. Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Does Miss Havisham really need more of a backstory than Dickens gives her in Great Expectations? The crazy, revenge-seeking, one-shoed, harridan [...]
Venom. Golden Goose Theatre.
“Whatever happened to Medusa?” introspects the central character in Emma Burnell’s underworked modern take on Greek myth. In the original version [...]
Tiger. Omnibus Theatre.
Joe Eyre’s slice of comic magical realism Tiger, currently at Clapham’s Omnibus theatre, sees a fluffy wise-cracking tiger with a talent [...]
Breaking The Castle. The Old Red Lion Theatre.
Peter Cook’s one-man comedy-drama about addiction and rehabilitation, Breaking The Castle, covers much familiar territory. Think Trainspotting set down-under. The protagonist [...]
Nail Polish. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Composed of current and recent University Of Greenwich drama undergraduates, collaborative theatre company Fruity Theatre aims to devise shows that “celebrate [...]
We Are Monsters x Glass. Barons Court Theatre.
Writers and performers Joseph Ryan-Hughes and Connor McCrory seem to have a taste for works imbued with murderous intent and haunting [...]
Boy Parts. Soho Theatre.
Eliza Clark’s darkly twisted debut novel Boy Parts is certainly ripe for theatrical reinvention. Written entirely in first person by the [...]
London – A Bloom Of Consciousness. Bloomsbury Festival.
Bloomsbury is an unusually heterogenous district, even for London. The eastern segment has dense social housing inhabited by a long-standing ethnically [...]
The Island. Cervantes Theatre.
Spaniard Juan Carlos Rubio is something of a polymath. In addition to working as an actor and TV presenter, he is [...]
Breast-Baring. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
The backstory of Jacob Newton’s entertaining if flawed debut play Breast-Baring concerns itself with the 17th century Irish pirate Anne Bonny, [...]
Thought Virus. Drayton Arms Theatre.
China’s government is currently engaged in a battle against what it labels separatism, terrorism, and extremism in the nation’s far-northwest autonomous [...]
Sunsets. Seven Dials Playhouse.
A viral hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Georgie Grier’s uneven but mostly enjoyable one-woman show about love, self-deception, and the mechanics [...]
The White Factory. Marylebone Theatre.
“What do you think? Do I look smart?” is the question Holocaust survivor Yosef Kaufman poses us at the close of [...]
Operation Epsilon. Southwark Playhouse.
In July 1945, after VE day and shortly before the United States detonates atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima [...]
A Double Bill Of Forbidden Love. Playground Theatre.
“There’s a monster under the bed” yells US first lady Betty Ford, protagonist of Artefact, the initial and much the more [...]
The Ugly One. Hope Theatre.
Renowned German writer Marius Von Mayenburg’s latest work Nachtland receives its UK premier at the Young Vic early next year, so [...]
Myra Dubois Be Well. Peacock Theatre.
Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, writer, actor, and stand-up performer Gareth Joyner brings his two gloriously fashioned [...]
God Of Carnage. Lyric Hammersmith.
Writer: Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton Director: Nicholai La Barrie Fresh from a huge hit with their revival of The [...]
You Are African First Before Anything. Omnibus Theatre.
Ophelia Charlesworth’s semi-autobiographical one-woman show You Are African First Before Anything explores the intricacies of the difficult bond between a deeply [...]
Maenad. Camden People’s Theatre.
Part gig, part performance art, part poetry reading, Elena Sirett’s Maenad, is a bleak, brutal, and brilliant third-person meditation on a [...]