This show is a bawsack of haggis with an offal lot of filler, boiled up in a plastic bag – and that’s exactly what I wanted to do with my head after this seeing the first half of this production of Brigadoon at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Brigadoon the musical, is an original work […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Review: Paper Swans at Soho Theatre London
April 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
***** Five star – unmissable! MANinLONDON In a closed park at night, Peter, a security guard (Daniel Chrisostomou) on his patrol finds Anna, a young woman (Vyte Garriga) dressed in a pristine white ballet dress sitting on a bench making paper swans. As Peter tries to find out what she is doing and importantly for […]
May 2025 New Theatre Shows London
April 27, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Q the Music – The James Bond Spectacular Fairfield Hall, Croydon 4th May, 7:30pm The critically acclaimed James Bond concert has returned with a license to thrill in Croydon and across the UK. This dedicated tribute band is known for its adrenaline-fueled and stirring concerts and will be hosted by Miss Moneypenny herself – actress […]
Pride Theatre London
March 31, 2025 by Leave a Comment
A brand-new Pride Season is launching this June at Seven Dials Playhouse; a curated programme of shows led by LGBTQIA+ artists, taking place in the heart of London’s West End. Running from 3rd to 22nd June across both of the venue’s spaces, The House and The Pen, the season features a bold mix of returning […]
The Hunger Games on Stage at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre
February 28, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Raising the curtain on a new era of entertainment with Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre. The 1,200-capacity venue is scheduled to open in Autumn 2025, launching with the first-ever live stage adaption of Suzanne Collins’ internationally acclaimed book The Hunger Games and Lionsgate’s blockbuster film. Complementing the theatre will be two stylish bars, a 100-cover restaurant, […]
