Twelfth Night. National Youth Theatre.
Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's tale of love, mistaken identity, ambition, and revelry, gets a decidedly Christmassy take in the National Youth Theatre’s [...]
Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper. Charing Cross Theatre.
Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper’s annual adult celebration of all things crude, spectacularly rude, and cosily camp returns in top-notch form [...]
Expendable. Royal Court Theatre.
Between the 1990s and 2010s, cases of organised child sexual exploitation came to light in several northern towns. Long overdue investigations [...]
Napoleon: Un Petit Pantomime. Jermyn Street Theatre.
The highly regarded chamber opera company Charles Court Opera's 17th annual production of what it describes as ‘boutique pantomime’ lands this [...]
Chop-chop. Barons Court Theatre.
Born and bred in Asturias to a Spanish mother and English father, bi-lingual performer and writer Andrea Holland devises and delivers [...]
Spent. Barons Court Theatre.
Nikoletta Soumelidis’ two-hander Spent runs the same story of a failing relationship over two evenings but alternates the gender of the [...]
Going For Gold. Park Theatre.
Lisa Lintott’s debut bioplay Going For Gold won three Black British Theatre Awards last year following a short run at the [...]
Phone. Courtyard Theatre.
Sam Taylor’s delightful ensemble comedy-drama Phone takes an extended excursion into Gen Z preoccupations and explores how smartphones can interfere with [...]
Sweetmeat. Old Red Lion Theatre.
Ivo de Jager’s gruesome and explicit two-hander Sweetmeat is one of those shows where you probably better pay attention to the [...]
For Three Refrigerators and One Washing Machine. Greenwood Theatre.
Based on real-life events, Kyriaki Mitsou's shocking slice of verbatim theatre For Three Refrigerators and One Washing Machine explores events that [...]
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, [...]