Step 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…
After The Act, produced by Breach and commissioned by New Diorama, dares to go where not many shows do these days. Billed as a "documentary musical" and based around the controversial Sectio…
Following a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, and a Covid-induced hiatus, Katie Guicciardi's FOX is finally out on tour. Inspired by real-life events, this witty one-hander offer…
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for the revival of Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer Prize nominated play Marjorie Prime at London's Menier Chocolate Factory.
A blend of Orwell's 1984 and the American Horror Story TV series, The Messiah Complex is a dystopian thriller that explores the extremes of conflicting belief systems. It takes place in a so…
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 of Pinter plays …
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…
For any theatre enthusiast who has been living under a rock, Nicholas Hytner's new production of Guys & Dolls at the Bridge Theatre is unique because it is immersive, in the manner of th…
Joseph Charlton's witty and incisive play Brilliant Jerks at the Southwark Playhouse portrays the evolution of a brilliant idea into a multi-billion-dollar ride-hailing app, laying bare the …
Benny And Hitch concentrates on the turbulent relationship between the director and his often first choice composer, Bernard Herrmann. They worked together on an unbroken stretch of eight fi…
The memory play is a theatrical genre which allows the playwright to locate their characters in the here and now while at the same time travelling back in time. It is the form adopted by Bj…
Sam Steiner's play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Harold Pinter Theatre has followed a well-documented path from student drama to West End, thanks partly to the simplicity of its …
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon rounds up the reviews for Tim Edge's play Under the Black Rock, starring Evanna Lynch, at London's Arcola Theatre.
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…
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…
London's most-wanted musical Bonnie & Clyde returns to the West End to raise a little hell, and it's bigger and better than ever. With memorable songs and some truly impressive performan…
Bjorg Vik's play The Journey to Venice at the Finborough Theatre invites you into the world of Edith and Oscar, and it is a world full of literature, poetry, imagination, and pretend travels.
The Way Old Friends Do is a brand new play written by Ian Hallard and directed by Mark Gatiss. It tells the story of two Birmingham school friends who meet up 30 years later and, after some …
Following the 5.30pm performance on Sunday 12 March 2023 at London's Cockpit Theatre, Terri Paddock talks to cast and creatives of A Tailor for Ladies. Georges Feydeau's early 1886 comedy A …
Playing for a few nights at Wilton's Music Hall as part of a nationwide tour, Anders Lustgarten's new play The City and the Town is about the confrontation between past and present, about th…
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon discovers what critics have been saying about Brigid Larmour and Tracy-Ann Oberman's new production of The Merchant of Venice 1936, currently on tou…
A British institution, Bake Off is may not seem like the most likely source for a musical but thankfully, its musical adaptation, The Great British Bake Off Musical at the Noel Coward Theatr…
Women, Beware The Devil at the Almeida Theatre is a difficult play to pin down. It starts in the modern day with the 'literal' devil (Nathan Armarkwei-Laryea) breaking the fourth wall to lam…
Using examples from the past 180 years, Four Poems From Ukraine oscillates between poems performed in English (by actors in London and Toronto), and Ukrainian actors performing in their nati…
In the week which saw the Bush Theatre pick up two out of a possible five nominations in the Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre award category in this year's Oliviers, the excel…