The Shape Of Things. Park Theatre.
“It isn’t art if you don’t have something to say” yells writer Neil LaBute’s justifiably irate protagonist Adam towards the end [...]
Rose. Ambassadors Theatre.
Rose, the eponymous protagonist of Martin Sherman’s haunting, epoch-spanning monologue is sitting shiva. It is not clear until the play closes [...]
Love and Hate in Stoke On Trent. White Bear Theatre.
Ian Dixon Potter’s dire musical comedy Love and Hate in Stoke on Trent has been through several iterations in its brief [...]
Build A Rocket. Wonderville.
It is the night before high school GCSEs kick off. Instead of revising, gusty sixteen year-old Yasmin is on a booze-fuelled [...]
Venus. Wiltons Music Hall.
“Contemporary dance and narrative not always the best of friends” one of the characters tells us at the outset of Venus, [...]
The Big O. Kings Head Theatre.
Lucy, the early 30s protagonist of Kim Cormack’s sincere, thought-provoking comedy drama The Big O, has anorgasmia. The term refers to [...]
Text And Delete. Etcetera Theatre.
Jess and Maudie, the early 20s protagonists of Ellie Gallimore and Kat Stidston’s thin comedy drama Text and Delete, are poles apart. [...]
Kitty In The Lane. Jack Studio Theatre.
Kitty lives with her dying father in a run-down house two miles from the nearest road. She has baked him a [...]
Bakkhai. National Youth Theatre.
The National Youth Theatre’s REP Company delivered a solid revival of Bola Agbaje’s south London-set comedy Gone Too Far! in March. [...]
Pepper and Honey. Greenwich Theatre.
Croatian migrant Ana, played with restrained charm by a silken-voiced Tina Hofman, has been in the UK for 12 years. She [...]
Unnatural Cycles A Ghost Story. Camden People’s Theatre.
At the outset of her trancelike single-hander Unnatural Cycles: A Ghost Story, writer and performer Avital Raz crafts a large circle [...]
Dead Outdoorsy. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Polly, the gregarious but dim hero of Molly Barton’s offbeat one woman coming-of-age comedy Dead Outdoorsy, faces two main challenges. The [...]
The Secret Life Of Bees. Almeida Theatre.
There is not a duff song in the entire, magnificently sung, immaculately staged, two-and-a half hours of bliss that comprise the [...]
Village Idiot. Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Cher’s late ‘80s anthem If I Could Turn Back Time has a couple of outings in Samson Hawkins’ debut play Village [...]
little scratch. New Diorama Theatre.
Director Katie Mitchell’s little scratch is a vital, astonishing, and unmissable piece of theatre. Adapted from Rebecca Watson’s debut novel by [...]
Decommissioned. Pleasance Theatre.
Sometime in the next 100 years the Welsh seaside village of Fairbourne will be submerged underwater, a victim of the rising [...]
Worth. Arcola Theatre.
The severe, hard-drinking matriarch of the immigrant Yeung family has recently passed away from what grandson Anthony breezily labels “diabetes-related shit”. [...]
Wherever She Is There Is Eden. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden” is the final line from Mark Twain’s comic short story, Eve’s Diary. Twain’s tale is [...]
The Dry House. Marylebone Theatre.
Grieving, alcoholic, fifty-something Chrissy is a shivering, sweating mess who can just about shuffle from the sofa she sleeps on to [...]
Betty Blue Eyes. Union Theatre.
When it premiered 2011, Cameron Mackintosh’s big bucks West End production of Betty Blue Eyes garnered rave reviews and three Olivier [...]
Trolls Online. The Cockpit Theatre.
“But why the trolls?” refugee Gaia enquires of software engineer boyfriend Frank, late on in Tim Thomas’ new musical TROLLS OnLINE. [...]
Gone Too Far! Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs back in 2007, gaining praise and earning the British [...]
Attempts on her Life. Silk Street Theatre.
Martin Crimp's influential postmodernist piece Attempts on Her Life was first seen at the Royal Court back in 1997 and had [...]
The Midnight Snack. Drayton Arms Theatre.
True Crime podcasts are quite the rage nowadays. BBC Sounds carries over 50 of them with dozens more on Apple, Google, [...]