Kunstler. White Bear Theatre.
“I’m aware I’ve offended people” says the eponymous protagonist William Kunstler in an uncharacteristic moment of reflective understatement. There is a [...]
Multiple Casualty Incident. The Yard Theatre.
Much admired British Palestinian writer Sami Ibrahim likes to mix up his genres if not necessarily his subject matter. His Olivier-nominated [...]
Love, Edith. Golden Goose Theatre.
Giulia Asquino and Delia Morea’s one-woman bioplay Love, Edith aims, so the show blurb tells us, to “retrace the decisive moments [...]
Robin Hood (that sick f**k). Bread and Roses Theatre.
The show blurb for Robin Hood (that sick f**k) describes the piece as pantomime-noir, by which one supposes we should have [...]
Black Swans. Omnibus Theatre.
Mum has always been strange. She is the kind of person who walks to the supermarket for milk rather than shop [...]
Gritty Police Drama A One-Man Musical. Soho Theatre.
Writer and Director: Luke Kempner Comedian, actor, and impressionist Luke Kempner’s furiously paced Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical sold out [...]
In Everglade Studio. Hope Theatre.
It is a sultry evening in August 1974. We are in Everglade Studio, a dingy and down-at-heels recording venue deep in [...]
F**king Men. Waterloo East Theatre.
Can it really be 16 years since Joe DiPietro’s fringe favourite F**king Men had its first outing at west London’s Finborough [...]
Black Velvet. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Llew, who is 22 and already a dad, arrives at his mum’s grave at a churchyard in Shooters Hill. He does [...]
Artificially Yours. Riverside Studios.
Twenty-one year old Aaron Thakar’s immensely promising debut comedy Artificially Yours suggests he has read a fair few Alan Ayckbourn plays [...]
Honey Badger. The Cockpit Theatre.
Theatre being what it is, when the stage lights flicker on to reveal a solitary character leaning against a large suitcase [...]
Tides. Hope Theatre.
“My name is Dylan Ward and I have autism” writer and performer Joe Dennis tells us shortly after the beginning of [...]
Odd Jobs. Hope Theatre.
In Odd Jobs, writer and director Madison Gerringer offers up a short series of absurdist comic vignettes about some of the [...]
Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Wyndham’s Theatre.
Set in Connecticut in the summer of 1912, written in 1941, and premiered in 1956, Eugene O’Neill’s bleak magnum opus Long [...]
Maybe Dick. White Bear Theatre.
Writer and performer John Hewer’s one-man comedy Maybe Dick is a twin love letter. To Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's 1851 novel of [...]
In and Out Of Chekhov’s Shorts. Southwark Playhouse Borough.
Chekhov's short stories have much in common with his plays. Unhappy characters live mundane lives enveloped in a kind of laconic [...]
Harry Clarke. Ambassadors Theatre.
David Cale’s deliciously malign noirish comedy Harry Clarke, with an absolutely stunning turn by Billy Crudup as the eponymous Harry, was [...]
Macbeth (An Undoing). Rose Theatre Kingston.
Writer and director Zinnie Harris has, she tells us in the show blurb for Macbeth (An Undoing), “a lifelong curiosity about [...]
No More Mr Nice Guy. Catford Broadway Theatre.
At 24 Keloughn gave up his dreams of being a big star to become a music teacher. “Music was my woman” [...]
Romeo and Juliet. The Globe Theatre.
Playing Shakespeare is Shakespeare’s Globe’s flagship partnership for secondary schools, offering up an action-packed, paired down 90-minute version of a key [...]
The Lonely Londoners. Jermyn Street Theatre.
Leading dramatist Roy Williams has a consistent fascination with Black British identity, most recently explored in the National Theatre’s inspiring Death [...]
Scarlet Sunday. Omnibus Theatre.
“Art is what you can get away with,” intones a cynical Andy Warhol. But what can an artist get away with [...]
A Song For Ella Grey. Theatre Peckham.
There are tangibles and intangibles in Zoe Cooper’s enjoyable adaptation of prominent young adult writer David Almond’s mystical and dreamlike coming [...]
Blonde Poison. Playground Theatre.
Playground Theatre’s five-week season celebrating the work of much admired and prestigiously productive writer Gail Louw, kicks off with a production [...]