Love London Love Culture offers a guide to some of the shows set to open in London next month.
NEWS: National Theatre will stage The Normal Heart starring Ben Daniels as part of Olivier in-the-round season
The National Theatre has announced that a production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, directed by Dominic Cooke, will be presented as part of the Olivier in-the-round season in February 2021 in a co-production with Fictionhouse.
‘There’s few better ways to spend a Sunday evening’: AUSTENTATIOUS – Savoy Theatre
The first of three opportunities to see Austentatious at the Savoy Theatre in December in a hilariously scandalous affair indeed.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: Dick Whittington at the Lyric Hammersmith
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for the Lyric Hammersmith’s 10th-anniversary pantomime Dick Whittington.
‘A very dark but very funny play’: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City – Finborough Theatre ★★★★
With a title like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Halley Feiffer’s play definitely attracts your attention.
‘An extremely good piece’: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City – Finborough Theatre ★★★★
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is an extremely good piece, but its failure to be even edgier and dangerous lies in the fact you can spot both these coming too early in the proceedings.
‘Dark, even for a black comedy’: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City – Finborough Theatre
Written by Halley Feiffer and directed by Bethany Pitts, it’s fair to say that A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City is dark, even for a black comedy.
AUSTENTATIOUS – West End
I could try and describe a plot that included strict fathers, thought-dead mothers, butterfly collecting, mannequin construction, and cat murder but it’s impossible to convey how sublimely silly it all gets.
AUSTENTATIOUS – Leicester Square Theatre
A monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
AUSTENTATIOUS – Leicester Square
A monthly micro-review from There Ought to be Clowns.
THE GLENDA J COLLECTIVE – Soho Theatre
“Who needs men?”… In advance of the return of the real Glenda J (Miss Jackson if you’re nasty…) in Deborah Warner’s King Lear for the Old Vic, The Glenda J Collective proved to be most entertaining.