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Featured shows
New post-show Q&A: Terri Paddock invites you on an explosive & gut-punching rollercoaster ride with Proforca’s Flashbang
15th August 2022After fascinating discussions around Feel, At Last and Lately, I’m back with Proforca Theatre to discuss Flashbang, the company’s fifth new play by James Lewis, as well as exciting new work by associate artists also programmed during the autumn season… .. Read more
NEWS: Gear up for the world premiere of new British musical RIDE at the Charing Cross Theatre
15th August 2022Award-winning new musical RIDE, charting one woman’s radical act and exploring the lies we tell to escape ourselves, gears up for its first full production at London’s Charing Cross Theatre from 25 August to 17 September 2022 (press night is… .. Read more
Other recent articles
’An absolute gem of a solo show’: AGE IS A FEELING – Edinburgh Festival Fringe ★★★★★
15th August 2022Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh – until 28 August 2022 Guest reviewer: Rachel Farrier Hayley McGhee has created an absolute gem of a solo show in Age is a Feeling. A day after seeing it, some of the lines (and… .. Read more
New post-show Q&A: Terri Paddock invites you on an explosive & gut-punching rollercoaster ride with Proforca’s Flashbang
15th August 2022After fascinating discussions around Feel, At Last and Lately, I’m back with Proforca Theatre to discuss Flashbang, the company’s fifth new play by James Lewis, as well as exciting new work by associate artists also programmed during the autumn season… .. Read more
‘Captures the heart’: FINDING MAGIC – Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Online Show)
14th August 2022A Zoom performance by Beverley Bishop, directed by Peter Beck, Finding Magic includes an audience recorded at the time of the livestream, to give a sense of interactivity. A magic show on the surface, this is a personal journey of… .. Read more
‘It’s writing from the heart’: ALL OF US – National Theatre ★★★★
14th August 2022National Theatre, Dorfman – until 24 September 2022 It would be unsurprising, indeed completely understandable, for a new state-of-the-nation play focusing on the treatment of, and opportunities for, disabled people in present-day UK, to fetch up on stage as a furious,… .. Read more
‘Truly a thing of beauty’: Rob Madge: My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) – Edinburgh Festival Fringe ★★★★★
13th August 2022Underbelly George Square, Edinburgh – until 29 August 2022 When you enter the Udderbelly, it feels like you are suddenly back in your Nan’s best room, there is a chair, a cabinet (my Nan called her’s a sideboard) and a chest… .. Read more
‘Timely, enterprising, emotionally shattering, politically shaming’: TWO UKRAINIAN PLAYS – Finborough Theatre
13th August 2022Finborough Theatre, London – until 3 September 2022 Timely, enterprising, emotionally shattering, politically shaming. These two plays were both both first born at the time of the 2014 conflict in Ukraine, the second particularly in the Donbas where ugly divisions erupted… .. Read more
‘Reclamation of trans people’s othering is joyful & fun’: SOMETHING IN THE WATER – Edinburgh Festival Fringe
12th August 2022Summerhall, Edinburgh – until 28 August 2022 In transphobic discourse, trans people are feared and consequently monstered. In these bigots’ brains, they are positioned outside the gender binary and labelled ‘not normal’. Canadian trans nonbinary theatremaker SE Grummett (they/them) first… .. Read more
‘Elements of the story connect in ways that surprise’: PATRIOTS – Almeida Theatre
12th August 2022Almeida Theatre, London – until 20 August 2022 Peter Morgan’s new play is a history lesson, filling in the gaps in our understanding of how we ended up where we are now. Specifically, it connects events in Russia after the… .. Read more
‘Highlights the heartwarming & empowering messages’: Kinky Boots the Musical in Concert – Theatre Royal Drury Lane ★★★★
11th August 2022Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London After the success of last week’s Chess in Concert, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane has once again opened their doors, this time for a concert version of the acclaimed Kinky Boots, starring an all-star cast.… .. Read more
‘Informs, educates & entertains’: ALL OF US – National Theatre
11th August 2022National Theatre, Dorfman – until 24 September 2022 Has the pandemic made us more angry? Although Francesca Martinez’s debut play, which opened last week at the National Theatre, was programmed before Covid, its belated arrival has not dampened the playwright’s fiery… .. Read more