The Ungodly. Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Though set fifty years apart, it is hard to escape the shadow of Arthur Miller’s masterwork The Crucible when watching Joanna [...]
The Chemistry Test. Stage Door Theatre.
Jack Cray and Hannah Adams’ Sci-Fi comedy The Chemistry Test sees Artificial Intelligence androids Steve and Evie tasked with falling in [...]
Autumn. Park Theatre.
“The world exists, stories get made up,” says Elisabeth Demand, the protagonist of Ali Smith’s Booker-prize shortlisted novel Autumn, adapted for [...]
¡Viva!. Peacock Theatre.
Manuel Liñán is a celebrated figure in Spain for reasons beyond his astonishing technical mastery of dance and choreography. His popularity [...]
Statues. Bush Theatre.
The Bush Theatre has a rich history of programming new works by British Black and Asian writers, including a recent hit [...]
The King of Hollywood. White Bear Theatre.
Douglas Fairbanks was a groundbreaking figure in early American cinema. Celebrated for his larger-than-life screen presence and athletic prowess, he became [...]
Gay Pride and No Prejudice. Union Theatre
Queer-inspired reimaginations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice are a more common species than one might initially imagine. Hollywood romcom Fire [...]
Knife on the Table. Cockpit Theatre.
Knife on the Table, Jonathan Brown’s sober ensemble piece about power struggles, knife violence, and relationships in and around a gang [...]
Gigi & Dar. Arcola Theatre.
Writer Josh Azouz’s work Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, which had a well-received run at the Almeida Theatre [...]
The Dedication. White Bear Theatre.
The relationship between composer Gustav Mahler and his much younger wife Alma is complex and turbulent. She wants to write music [...]
Roots. Almeida Theatre.
Before the ‘angry young men’ of the 1950s, so we are often told, British theatre was dominated by well-crafted drawing-room comedies, [...]
Look Back in Anger. Almeida Theatre.
Accusations of misogyny dog John Osborne’s 1956 masterpiece Look Back In Anger. The work bleeds toxic male despair. To a modern [...]
The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker. Omnibus Theatre.
The show blurb for Tobi Poster-Su’s The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker describes the piece as a “gothic horror about the [...]
Waiting For Godot. Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Plot summaries rarely come as easy to pen as is the case with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece Waiting For Godot. Querulous, [...]
G. Royal Court Theatre.
G, Tife Kusoro’s dense, ambitious, multi-layered work about British black boyhood and urban surveillance won the 2023 George Devine Award, garnering [...]
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. White Bear Theatre.
It is 6pm again. Time has stopped, so trapping the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, a farting Dormouse, and the audience [...]
The Unlikely Secret Agent. Marylebone Theatre.
Thirty years on from the arrival of true democracy in South Africa Paul du Toit’s bioplay The Unlikely Secret Agent, adapted [...]
Lima. Etcetera Theatre.
Paris-based writer and performer Julian Azad Bonnet offers up a “Solo Comedy Drama about Life, Love and Loss” in his 50-minute [...]
Lips. Etcetera Theatre.
Alex is the original hot mess. We first meet her drinking tequila and lime, snorting coke, gagging as if to puke, [...]
Lost & Found. Etcetera Theatre.
Lost & Found comprises two short plays created by a company of recent London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art graduates. [...]
And I’ll Blow Your House Down. Camden People’s Theatre.
Georgie Steele’s two sons Nye and Laurie were diagnosed at an early age with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a life limiting genetic [...]
Shifters. Duke Of York’s Theatre.
Benedict Lombe’s tremendous could-have-been, should-have-been, rom-com Shifters enjoyed a sell-out run at the Bush Theatre earlier in the year and earns [...]
SpaceEater. Courtyard Theatre.
Sci Fi plays are something of a rarity. Perhaps the genre’s niche appeal and expectations around production costs discourage creators. So, [...]
Tales from the Wasteland. Etcetera Theatre.
If the world was ending what would be the one thing you’d want to survive? Perhaps the obvious answer might be [...]