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Featured shows
NEWS: Test your nerve in the thrilling site-responsive experience Facts not Opinions’: Stretched to the Limit
20th March 2023Step back in time and enter the world’s first Victorian Testing and Experimenting Works on London’s Bankside for an evocative and surreal new site-responsive performance. Expect to be tested to your limits during Illuminate Productions’ ‘Facts not Opinions’: Stretched to the… .. Read more
NEWS: Attic Theatre’s premiere production of Roy Williams’ play All Roads tours London venues
4th March 2023Exploring what it means to love, grieve and build your own future, being young and Black British today, Attic Theatre Company’s production of Roy Williams’ new play All Roads receives its world premiere in March 2023, touring four London venues with a press night… .. Read more
Recent articles
‘Captivated from beginning to end’: AFTER THE ACT: A SECTION 28 MUSICAL – New Diorama Theatre ★★★★
19th March 2023New Diorama Theatre – until 1st April 2023 Guest reviewer: Ben Jolly Section 28… a musical? Not something that first comes to mind in this, the “golden age” of the Hollywood/jukebox musical. This piece, produced by Breach and commissioned by… .. Read more
‘Powerful & thought-provoking’: FOX – Touring
19th March 2023Touring – reviewed at Greenwich Theatre * Content warning* FOX explores sensitive themes of postnatal depression and includes mentions of baby loss. Following a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, and a Covid-induced hiatus, Katie Guicciardi’s FOX is… .. Read more
‘Tip your hat & get down there’: GUYS & DOLLS – Bridge Theatre ★★★★★
18th March 2023Bridge Theatre, London – until 2 September 2023 Daniel Mays has played a lot of tough-guy roles but has by nature a rather innocent and worried-looking face. It is this quality that Nicholas Hytner spotted as perfect for his Nathan… .. Read more
REVIEW ROUND-Up: Marjorie Prime at the Menier Chocolate Factory
18th March 2023We round up the reviews for the revival of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play. Evening Standard: ★★★ “Though talky and static as a piece of drama, Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer-nominated 2014 play is an intriguing meditation on ageing, death and Artificial Intelligence.”… .. Read more
‘The changing tone is very engaging’: FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING – Young Vic Theatre
17th March 2023Young Vic Theatre, London – until 29 April 2023 Malevolent forces shaping small communities is a strong premise for all kinds of drama, from the arrival of outsiders that tend to be the focus of horror to the power shifts… .. Read more
‘Feels depressingly timely’: RUSH – Chickenshed Theatre
15th March 2023Chickenshed – until 25 March 2023 In a week when the UK government doubled down on its harmful and divisive rhetoric with regard to refugees and immigrants, Chickenshed’s new spring show Rush feels depressingly timely. At its core the story… .. Read more
‘When it fully works, it’s wonderful’: GUYS & DOLLS – Bridge Theatre ★★★★
15th March 2023Bridge Theatre, London – until 2 September 2023 I can’t imagine it ever not being a pleasure to encounter Damon Runyon’s gallery of petty criminals, gamblers, loafers, cops, sweethearts and showgirls, especially when filtered through Swerling and Burrows beautifully crafted… .. Read more
VIDEOS & PHOTOS: From Feydeau & farce to internationalism and inclusivity, there’s lots to discuss in the A Tailor for Ladies post-show Q&A
14th March 2023If you think the life of a jobbing actor is hard and full of rejection – and it is – spare a thought for non-British actors trying to make their way in London theatre who may not even make it… .. Read more
‘Clever, funny & frustratingly relevant’: BRILLIANT JERKS – Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
14th March 2023Southwark Playhouse, London – until 25 March 2023 Guest reviewer: Claire Roderick Joseph Charlton’s witty and incisive play portrays the evolution of a brilliant idea into a multi-billion-dollar ride-hailing app, laying bare the cut-throat and toxic workplaces and casualties as… .. Read more
‘Absorbing audio drama’: BENNY & HITCH – BBC Sounds (Online show)
13th March 2023Over the last few months I’ve been steadily working my way through the Sky Arts TV reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. This is an anthology series of half hour “plays” created in the late 1950s/early 1960s fronted and sardonically introduced by the… .. Read more