Miss Myrtle’s Garden. Bush Theatre.
The Bush Theatre’s new artistic director, Taio Lawson, launches the venue's latest season of productions with a confident, warm-hearted, slow-burning reflection [...]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bridge Theatre.
Nicholas Hytner’s much-anticipated immersive revival of his hit 2019 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream makes a deliriously witty return to [...]
Red Peppers / Aged in Wood. Tabard Theatre.
Director Jason Moore’s double bill at the Tabard Theatre pairs Noel Coward's 30-minute theatrical amuse-bouche, Red Peppers, more a sketch than [...]
Pop Off, Michelangelo! Underbelly Boulevard Soho.
Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, the two towering figures of the Italian Renaissance, certainly met. Sources record at least one verbal [...]
Faygele. Marylebone Theatre.
Shimmy Braun’s bleak drama, Faygele – the word means ‘faggot’ in Yiddish – covers familiar territory: teenage suicide in the face [...]
Mermaids Have No Tears. Barons Court Theatre.
“Mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more”, Hans Christian Anderson says in The Little Mermaid. The sea creature’s invisible [...]
Swing! Swing! Admiral Byng! Playground Theatre.
The notorious trial of Admiral John Byng in 1757 promises rich source material for a bioplay. It blends personal tragedy, political [...]
We Aren’t Kids Anymore. Savoy Theatre.
“We should get all our dirty laundry out and see how far it goes”, the ensemble croons in the penultimate song [...]
Ben and Imo. Orange Tree Theatre.
Mark Ravenhill’s character-driven two-hander Ben and Imo, subtly directed by Erica Whyman, garnered solid praise in its Royal Shakespeare Company production [...]
Ordinary Days. Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Adam Gwon’s shortish, sung-through musical Ordinary Days first appeared in London at the Finborough Theatre in 2008. Since then, it has [...]
Dick. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Dick, Writer and Director Adam Kinneen’s ensemble take on alienated, nihilistic, sexually ambiguous twenty-somethings covers familiar territory. The lineage goes back [...]
James Rowland: Learning to Fly & Piece of Work. Stratford East.
Writer-performer and fringe favourite James Rowland’s nationwide tour of his Songs of the Heart trilogy of storytelling pieces concludes next month. [...]
What Fresh Hell Is It? – The Libra Theatre Cafe
In Glenn T. Griffin’s engaging and insightful one-woman bioplay What Fresh Hell Is It?, the poet, short story writer, critic, and [...]
Playfight. Soho Theatre.
Writer Julia Grogan’s breathtakingly assured debut play arrives at Soho Theatre following stellar reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe and a detour [...]
All The Happy Things. Soho Theatre.
Naomi Denny’s three-hander comedy-drama All The Happy Things covers familiar themes within a recognisable premise. A grieving protagonist comes to terms [...]
Telly. Bread and Roses Theatre.
The challenge with absurdist comedy is that many people do not find it funny. Laughing at the sheer weirdness of a [...]
The Women of Llarumney. Stratford East.
Playwright and screenwriter Azuka Oforka’s notable debut play, The Women of Llarumney, transfers to Theatre Royal Stratford East following a sold-out [...]
Kitty Dollparts. Camden People’s Theatre.
Rhiannon Lucy Bird's short one-woman performance piece, Kitty Dollparts & Other Performing Objects, mashes up verse, monologue, original song, and extensive [...]
Sisyphean Quick Fix. Riverside Studios.
Sisyphean Quick Fix, performer Bettina Paris’ debut work as a writer, premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe to a solid response. [...]
Tell Me You’ll Think About It. Hen & Chickens Theatre.
Mid-twenties theatre reviewer Phoebe is not impressed. The radical reworking of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata that she is asked to review proves to [...]
Weather Girl. Soho Theatre.
Brian Watkins’s adeptly crafted, California-set tragicomedy Weather Girl enjoyed a sold-out run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, garnering a clutch of [...]
Dear Martin. Arcola Theatre.
Martin is a murderous psychopath locked away in a high-security hospital that, he says, “is like the school in Harry Potter [...]
The Seagull. Barbican Theatre.
Even good productions of The Seagull—and, yes, Thomas Ostermeier’s bold, much anticipated, modern-day take is immensely entertaining—can struggle with the tonal [...]
Too Many Books. Upstairs At The Gatehouse.
Renowned writer-director Mike Leigh, whose works are often rooted in the intricacies of social rank and identity, once proposed that British [...]