Universal. Omnibus Theatre.
Theatre company Unshaded Arts make a welcome return to Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre for a solid and likeable second series of 15-minute [...]
Sima. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Anxious, depressed, and isolated university student Jess lives alone in her mum’s plush flat overlooking the Firth of Forth. There is [...]
GuyMart. Kings Head Theatre.
George Lacey’s spoof comedy musical GuyMart, currently running as part of the MT Pride Lab at the King’s Head Theatre, relocates [...]
Duck. Arcola Theatre.
Duck, playwright and producer maatin’s coming-of-age comedy-drama about the burgeoning cultural consciousness of a cricket-crazy British Indian adolescent, arrives with serendipitous [...]
Spy For Spy. Riverside Studios.
Kieron Barry’s two-hander comedy romance Spy For Spy is, the show blurb tells us, “an attempt to create a play which [...]
Shakesqueer. Etcetera Theatre.
In the Elizabethan period queer sex was mostly taboo. Close and intense friendships on the other hand were highly valued. It [...]
Blueprints. The Pleasance Theatre.
“This feels like an episode of Black Mirror” says Faith, the co-protagonist of Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo’s reflective two-hander, Blueprints. She is right. [...]
Twelfth Night. Shakespeare In The Squares.
Following last year’s well-received Tempest, touring theatre company Shakespeare In The Squares returns to London this summer, with an appealing production [...]
Curating. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Goofy twenty-something Freya sells insurance in a London call centre but has dreams of becoming a contemporary impressionist painter. Sadly, her [...]
Dedication. Marylebone Theatre.
Writer, actor, and film-maker Roger Peltzman describes his intensely moving piece of storytelling, Dedication, as a “one-person show”. In fact, aside [...]
Groundhog Day. The Old Vic.
It is Groundhog Day at the Old Vic. No, not yet another revival of A Christmas Carol – that delight comes [...]
A Critical Stage. Tabard Theatre.
The opening of Gareth Armstrong’s A Critical Stage finds the show’s protagonist, theatre critic Jimmy, gagged, bound hand and foot, slumped [...]
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 [...]