Theatre Channel’s upcoming original docu-series, In The Wings is a celebration of the extraordinary individuals whose work brings theatre to life from behind the scenes. Produced by theatre critic and influencer Mickey Jo Boucher, best known as MickeyJoTheatre whose YouTube channel has attained upwards of 18 million views and his audience of more than 80,000 subscribers has seen […]
Preview: The Statesman by Joel Marlin at Theatro Technis London
July 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The Statesman is an absurdist comedy by New York-based writer Joel Marlin opening this September at Theatro Technis in London. Directed by Quentin Beroud, The Statesman follows a village where laughter is outlawed and the reluctant official charged with teaching people how to be funny after a forbidden giggle draws the attention of the Queen. The […]
Theatre Preview: Daniel’s Husband from Plastered Productions at Marylebone Theatre
June 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Hit Off-Broadway play Daniel’s Husband to make its UK premiere at Marylebone Theatre for a limited season from 4 December 2025 to 10 January 2026. Michael McKeever’s play Daniel’s Husband, directed by Alan Souza is an unflinching look at the nature of love. Daniel’s Husband asks us – among other things – to consider where […]
Preview: Seagull: True Story at Marylebone Theatre London
June 26, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This inventive, darkly comic and politically charged remix of Chekhov’s classic blends autobiographical drama, Chekhovian themes and biting satire. When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine casts a shadow of censorship over Kon’s free-spirited reimagining of Chekhov’s The Seagull, the production is stripped down to a state-approved shell of its former self. Desperate to save his vision […]
Review: This Bitter Earth directed by Billy Porter at Soho Theatre London
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A thrilling, intimate production instantly and winningly breaking the fourth wall, and then delivering a shattering, fragmentary, non-linear portrait of a passionate but troubled relationship of a gay, interracial couple, Neil and Jesse – against a US backdrop of race, inequality, and police brutality. The play, This Bitter Earth‘s timeline is marked by the deaths […]
Dance: Fragments of Us at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2025
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The UK’s leading Black British theatre company, Talawa will premiere an uplifting new outdoor work, “Fragments of Us” as part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival’s 30th anniversary. In collaboration with London-based Black British contemporary dance company FUBUNATION, and theatre and live art practitioner Sonia Hughes, this captivating outdoor work uses movement and spoken word to platform […]
Raindance Icon Award to late, great Dame Joan Plowright for Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
June 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This year’s Raindance Film Festival presents an additional Icon Award posthumously honouring the late, great Dame Joan Plowright in the year of her passing – presented for her final major screen role in Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (dir: Dan Ireland, UK/USA). Raindance’s 33rd edition (18-27 June) includes a special 20th Anniversary tribute screening of […]
Theatre: Salomé by Gesher Theatre in London
June 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In a co-production with Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Gesher Theatre presents Maxim Didenko’s highly stylised production of Oscar Wilde’s intoxicating world, in which beauty becomes a weapon and a kiss can mean death. Written by Wilde in 1891, this lyrical one-act play, banned in Britain at the time, tells the biblical tale of Salomé, the […]
Immersive Theatre Preview: STOREHOUSE from Sage and Jester
June 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
It’s quite a journey from truth to disinformation and you’ll need to take the bus from Canada Water station to Deptford, South East London to get there. Among a mix of local authority and new builds you’ll see a big old rusty gate through which, up a long path through weeds (the real thing, not […]
Theatre Review: Cul-de-sac by David Shopland at Omnibus Theatre
May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Fake Escape in association with Omnibus Theatre present the world premiere of Cul-de-sac by David Shopland from 27th May to Saturday 14th June 2025 at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham London. Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf meets Abigail’s Party and you are beginning to scratch this surface of this confident if too lengthy play. Alan […]
