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 [...]
Stale Cake. Libra Theatre Café.
It is difficult to decipher the tone that writer and director Gabrielle Hofmann aims for in her 45-minute ensemble piece, Stale [...]
Net Café Refugee. Camden People’s Theatre.
Yuya Sato’s Net Café Refugee centres around three oddball misfits living a precarious life in adjacent cubicles in an internet café [...]
Godot’s To-Do List. Libra Theatre Café.
Young writer and student Leo Simpe-Asante’s clever and confident slice of absurdist comedy, Godot’s To-Do List, won the inaugural Royal Court [...]
ADHD WTF is ADHD? Playground Theatre.
Gail Louw’s involving and intimate single-hander bioplay, ADHD WTF is ADHD? recounts her long-time friend Louise Comb’s experiences of a lifetime [...]
Brigadoon. Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Is there a reason why Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s Scottish-set 1947 musical Brigadoon has not been staged in London [...]
Around the World in 72 Days. Barons Court Theatre.
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist who gained fame in the late [...]
Hamlet & Co. Barons Court Theatre.
Anais Marchand’s immersive modern language adaptation of Hamlet sets the action in the cut and thrust of a struggling big business. [...]
The Tempestuous: A Shrew’d New Comedy. Old Red Lion Theatre.
New Zealander Penny Ashton has carved out a niche with her bawdy one-woman musical comedies that skilfully pastiche the style, characters, [...]
Good Night, Oscar. Barbican Theatre.
Doug Wright’s dramedy bioplay Good Night, Oscar arrives from Broadway, burnishing rave reviews for Sean Hayes’s Tony Award-winning turn as the [...]
None of Them Will Get Out Alive. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
Writer and director Samuel Winner delivers a version of TV’s The Traitors set within the familiar realm of detective fiction parody. [...]
Relative Sonics. Etcetera Theatre.
STAR RATING: 2.5 stars A lot, perhaps too much, is going on in Chinese writer and Director Mingming Liu’s two-hander Relative [...]
Defiling Gravity. Libra Theatre Café.
Defiling Gravity features likeable Irish comedian and musician Dan Leith delivering an engaging hour of adult stand-up and original songs. Set [...]
Macbeth. Wilton’s Music Hall.
The Duke’s Theatre Company’s seven-actor touring production of Macbeth, directed by Robert Shaw Cameron, is The Scottish Play in big, broad, [...]
Eclipse Ballroom. The Courtyard Theatre.
Unusually for a fringe production, writer and Director Tatjana Yike Yao’s Eclipse Ballroom boasts a roster of six Chinese-origin performers, a [...]
Jonty O’Callaghan’s Got Some Notes. Etcetera Theatre.
Talented and likeable comedian Jonty O'Callaghan delivers a pleasing 50 minutes of above-par sketch comedy in Jonty O'Callaghan's Got Some Notes. [...]
Fly Trap. Barons Court Theatre.
Maria Mainelli’s kind, engaging 40-minute biographical comic monologue takes us on a journey from high school angst to gloomy mid-20s body [...]
Brixton Calling. Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Alex Urwin's two-hander Brixton Calling adapts Simon Parkes’s bestselling 2014 memoir about creating the iconic South London music venue, ‘Live at [...]
Go With The Flow. Riverside Studios.
Anna Toogood takes the role of the “Gynae Guru” in Go With The Flow, a short slice of semi-improv comedy cabaret [...]
Kill Drill. Barons Court Theatre.
Luke Ofield’s genial eco-comedy Kill Drill covers familiar territory: the costs and consequences of taking ‘direct action’ in the fight against [...]
Four Play. Kings Head Theatre.
Jack Brunger’s comedy drama about the pitfalls of open relationships, Four Play, emerged over a decade ago as part of the [...]
Maureen Lipman and Friends. Charing Cross Theatre.
Broadly themed around “explorations of our natural world”, Janie Dee’s eclectic series of Beautiful World Cabaret shows at the Charing Cross [...]