After a surprisingly (to them) successful stint at this year's Vault Festival, disability-led FlawBored Theatre returns with It's a Motherf**king Pleasure at the Soho Theatre, their razor-sh…
It doesn't take long to understand why Rafaella Marcus' debut play Sap garnered so many rave reviews at last year's Edinburgh Fringe. The quality of the writing and its exceptional delivery …
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 it…
Back in 2009, when The Great British Bake Off first appeared on our TV screens, nobody could have predicted that a show about people making cakes in a tent would even get a second series, le…
"Complicated, isn't it?" says one of the characters early on in James Woolf's The Play With Speeches " and they're not wrong. As writer Anthony (Matthew Parker) sits down with director Penny…
As adaptations go, they don't come a lot more ambitious than Simon Reade's reimagining of David Copperfield at Riverside Studios. The semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens is known …
The subject of Aoife Kennan's Scratches is a tough one for many reasons " one of which is that, for very good reasons, she can't actually talk openly about it. And so a sort of code develops…
Though it's considered to be a Canadian classic, it's somehow taken nearly 40 years for David French's Salt-Water Moon to reach the UK, directed by Peter Kavanagh at the Finborough. Part of …
This is far from the only option for anyone wanting to see A Christmas Carol in London this year " but if you're looking for a performance that's intimate, funny, inventive and a little bit …
It's the festive season, and of all the Christmas shows on offer this year, I'm not sure they could possibly come much bigger than Chickenshed's Jack! Playing is believing… As ever, the No…
La Maupin is a folk punk musical celebrating this queer icon, written by Olivia Thompson and performed by a small cast of actor-musicians from female-led theatre company Fantastic Garlands. …
Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and adapted by Simon Reade, A Single Man follows a day in the life of George (Theo Fraser Steele), a middle-aged British professor living in Los A…
All I can really say about Apples in Winter at the Playground Theatre is that it's really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave yo…
There's a lot to appreciate in Guinea Pigs at The Space. The central inspiration is a topic that's been deliberately covered up and will therefore be news to many audience members, and Elin …
Theatre doesn't get much more personal than this. The Quality of Mercy is the story of serial killer Harold Shipman, written and performed by Edwin Flay " a patient of Shipman's as a child, …
Landscape with Weapon asks some interesting and uncomfortable questions, and ultimately proves that when it comes to morality, right and wrong are not always as clear-cut as we might like th…
You'll like Blue at the White Bear Theatre if… The play is a dark comedy. You will laugh. You will think about the 'human condition'. You will find some of it absurd because life is a litt…
Inspired by the moment in April 1987 when the princess opened Britain's first HIV/AIDS unit at London's Middlesex Hospital and challenged public perceptions of the disease by shaking hands w…
Going in, it's hard to know if the technical aspects of Douglas Baker's production of Ten Days In A Madhouse at Jack Studio Theatre will feel gimmicky, but it quickly becomes evident that th…
Bill Rosenfield's Another America is not quite what I expected " which, it turns out, is the whole point. Inspired by the 1999 documentary film True Fans by Dan Austin, it's not explicitly b…
Returning to live performance for the first time in two years, Arrows & Traps prove they've lost none of their ambition as they bring to the stage not one but two inspiring real-life sto…
Female-led theatre company Plain Heroines "make funny plays about difficult subjects". That's an apt description of Kate Reid's The 4th Country.
What if you fancy a festive show but you're not in the mood for Dickensian drama? Shitfaced Showtime is the answer.
How many of us theatre lovers, hand on heart, could name the wig designer working on our favourite productions?
Rose is a career woman who wants a baby but not a relationship. Adam's a deadbeat musician who had a bad childhood and has zero interest in procreating.