"They Call Me, "Woman!'' (written by Ayo Jaiyesimi and presented by Thespian Family Theatre & Productions, Nigeria) is a set of five monologues spotlighting some of the issues confrontin…
"It's not a f***ing musical. it's an opera you c**t!" This statement, from the lips of Silvio Berlusconi as imagined in this uneven but technically inventive show packed with pulsating rock …
Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, just off the Hammersmith Bridge, Pooh Bear goes on search of some 'hunny' and has a host of adventures with his friends in Winnie the Pooh: The Musical at Rive…
This lively and vital new play, Sleepova, by Matilda Feyiá¹£ayá» Ibini, focuses on four Black teens as they approach their 16th birthdays. It balances the pull of parental pressure an…
Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image Saves the World at Birmingham Rep may lack the satirical bite of the original series, but that could be because everyone is so unredeemingly awful without hav…
A quartet of performers brings to life the new song cycle by Sam Thomas, No Limits at the Turbine Theatre, which looks at friends, families, and relationships within a group of younger mille…
The question All By Myself at the Vault Festival leaves you asking is would you still be curating your personal life for just one online click if it was the end of the world? Co-writers Char…
Based loosely on the Kafka play The Trial, the Unicorn Theatre's production of The Trial of Josie K " now a 12-year-old girl played by Nkhanise Phiri " retains the surrealism of the original…
One of the London stage hits of the immediate post-pandemic period, 2.22 A Ghost Story opened with a big gala night in its new home. The big attraction on this occasion is the West End debut…
Nellie Bly (1864-1922, played by writer/performer Katie Overstall) is set for an adventure, and she doesn't want to be stuck writing on her newspaper's gossip column. Inspired by the …
This vibrant, vicious, violent, and vivacious two-hour adaptation by Scott Graham and Simon Hoggett for Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith places Othello in a land of gangs, drugs, an…
Ultimately, Iphigenia at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating piece which has lots of ideas about how women are treated, and where their choices lie, but it stops just short of being as emotion…
In Dots and Dashes: A Bletchley Park Musical, which comes to London from the Edinburgh Fringe, the women of Bletchley Park are centre stage, clever mathematicians, linguists, and navigators …
Wreckage, Tom Ratcliffe's latest play to reach London (he also performs as Sam) is an ambitious and emotional powerhouse about love, loss, and regret at the Turbine Theatre.
With a setlist that covers different moods, a striptease, some audience participation, a fair sprinkling of upstaging, and a large dollop of nostalgia through a prism of parody, A Night At T…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Deafinitely Theatre, Talking Hands has been created in partnership with Paines Plough, allowing five deaf writers to share their stories of lockdown.
It's misty and cold in the Park Theatre's main auditorium. An oppressive half-light frames the stage where the tale of the lost lighthouse keepers (the 'wickies') of Eilean Mor will soon unf…
Mother Goose at the Hackney Empire moves along at a cracking pace. Even with a short salute to the 120 years of the Hackney(wood) Empire, Mother Goose is one of the best options available th…
The Rocky Horror Show started as a tiny fringe production upstairs at the Royal Court, nearly 50 years ago. Over time it has grown and developed, but still retains the connection with fans w…
What happens when you cross A Christmas Carol with Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and add a murder mystery and a love interest (Rosie Armstrong) from the past? It's A…
Now with the addition of a further four cast members, Love Goddess at The Cockpit has become a full-length musical, in which the events in the former Margarita Carmen Cansino's life play out…
In David Ireland's charming two-hander Not Now at the Finborough Theatre his usual concern about the British-Irish question of identity remains, but without the explosions of violence charac…
Daddy Issues at the Seven Dials Playhouse a play which definitely adds to the conversation about mental health and what our parents pass on to us, but it didn't quite get there in my opinion…
A day in the life of George, an Englishman living in America, in his fifties " a man alone following the death of his younger partner, Jim. A man of routine habits, but this is no routine da…
I shed a tear or two at the end of the symbolic and powerful tale that is Life is Pi at the Wyndham's Theatre, which leaves the West End on 15 January 2023. If you can, take yourself along t…