When the Clarion Came to Call. Cockpit Theatre.
STAR RATING: 2 stars When, upon entering an auditorium, you are told, ‘Take as many pictures as you like, but mind [...]
Daddy’s First Gay Date. Seven Dials Playhouse.
STAR RATING: 3 stars Writer Sam Danson’s well-received, semi-autobiographical debut single-hander BI-TOPIA explored the experience of coming out and living as [...]
KISS WITNESS: Prayers for a Hungry Ghost. Barbican Theatre.
STAR RATING: 3 stars In Chinese mythology and Buddhist beliefs, the hungry ghost symbolises the dangers of human excess. A lifetime [...]
This Little Earth. Arcola Theatre.
Honey pushes her boyfriend, Christopher, over the edge of a frozen crevasse in Antarctica. Unfortunately, Christopher grabs hold of her, and [...]
The Wanderers. Marylebone Theatre.
The show blurb for director Igor Golyak’s production of The Wanderers quotes a review from The Wall Street Journal describing the [...]
The Unbelievers. Royal Court.
Nick Payne’s first new theatre work in 6 years, The Unbelievers, explores a woman’s determined, near psychotic inability to move on [...]
F*ggotjacket. Canal Café Theatre.
Aversion therapy, once used in mid-century Britain to ‘cure homosexuality’, reached its height in the 1950s and 60s. In psychiatric wards, [...]
Never Fully Here. Seven Dials Playhouse.
Writer and performer Moana Doll’s 40-minute, single-hander, Never Fully Here, blends physical theatre, clowning, and third-person storytelling to explore the experience [...]
MUSIK. Wilton’s Music Hall.
Billie Trix is still standing, just. Dishevelled, intoxicated, unrepentant, snorting large quantities of coke washed down with neat Jack Daniels, yet [...]
One Day When We Were Young. Hen & Chickens Theatre.
Nick Payne’s romantic two-handers usually feature a third character loitering in the background: the passage of time and the looming presence [...]
They Weave With String That Suffocates. The Glitch.
Creator and director Zazi the Artist takes us on a whistle-stop tour of 20 years of Greek mythology in her 60-minute [...]
Anirban Dasgupta: Cry Daddy. Soho Theatre.
A year on from his well-received show, Polite Provocation, Kolkata-born, Mumbai-based stand-up comedian Anirban Dasgupta returns to the Soho Theatre. The [...]
Petit Léopard. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Capucine Earle’s fascinating and elaborate slice of poetry theatre, Petit Léopard, presents a non-linear, stream-of-consciousness portrayal of a day in the [...]
Reasonable Crash Out. The Glitch.
There is a classic fairy-tale atmosphere to Ern Linn Chong’s delayed coming-of-age story, Reasonable Crash Out. Our twenty-something protagonist Ling, played [...]
The Billionaire Inside Your Head. Hampstead Theatre.
Will Lord’s assured debut play, The Billionaire Inside Your Head, affords one of the most uncomfortable opening monologues you are likely [...]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Golden Goose Theatre.
Formed by a cohort of Italia Conti graduates, The New Rep Theatre Company’s diverse range of recent productions has included offerings [...]
English Kings Killing Foreigners. Soho Theatre.
In their intriguing comic two-hander, English Kings Killing Foreigners, Nina Bowers and Philip Arditti see Shakespeare’s Henry V as a bloody, [...]
lenny. Omnibus Theatre.
Writer and performer Alfie Webster uses only lower case for the eponymous protagonist of his striking, emotionally resonant and beautifully layered [...]
The Lady From The Sea. Bridge Theatre.
Simon Stone’s modern-day reinventions of classic works can be polarising – loved for their star casts, stylish dialogue, comic daring, and [...]
Brown Girl Noise. Riverside Studios.
Writer Kaya Uppal’s Brown Girl Noise mash-up of comedy sketches, polemic, verse, and spoken word explores the attitudes and experiences of [...]
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler. Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Several popular mid-20th-century biographies of Hitler suggest his mother took young Adolf to her Jewish GP to treat his nightmares and [...]
Vermin. Park Theatre.
First seen at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Benny Ainsworth’s mordant modern gothic horror story Vermin had a well-received 2024 run [...]
(God Save My) Northern Soul. Park Theatre.
Set in 2010, Natasha Cottriall’s well-observed and immensely likeable single-hander, (God Save My) Northern Soul, covers familiar territory: shock, loss, and [...]
Sirena. The Glitch.
In Homer’s Odyssey, the Sirens sing a song so exquisite and irresistible that any sailor who hears it is overcome with [...]