BWW Review: RINGMASTER, VAULT Festival
Part of VAULT Festival and performed at the Network Theatre, Ringmaster is introduced as being vaguely based on La Ronde. Schintzler's subversive 1900 play, banned and censored by his contem…
Part of VAULT Festival and performed at the Network Theatre, Ringmaster is introduced as being vaguely based on La Ronde. Schintzler's subversive 1900 play, banned and censored by his contem…
Tom dreams of being a famous actor. But it's hard to break into the industry and a day-job waiting tables takes its toll. Then, while cast in a fringe play he's met with a huge opportunity t…
Sally Madeleine MacMahon is celebrating her 16th birthday seeing her favourite band playing live. Everything seems to be going well in her life and she looks happy as she can be, especially …
Mark and Marichka Marczyk fought in the Kiev Uprising in 2014. They witnessed life and death, injustice and dictatorship first hand before they decided to tell their story.
Christopher Adams and Timothy Allsop draw on their real-life experience to paint a vivid picture of an open couple. They tell their tale aided by the audience, who are called on multiple tim…
A man and his daughter move into Ann's block of flats, except that he says there's no little girl with him. The woman, addicted to watching people's lives through her window, grows an obsess…
Written by David Thame, Kompromat was inspired by the still-unsolved murder of a GCHQ agent and sees young Zac Max Rinehart coming to terms with his action. Arriving to London from a sex-tra…
Anima Theatre Company present Blue Departed, a show marketed as a re-imagination of Dante's Inferno. On paper, it sounds interesting but on stage it becomes a vague exploration of love and d…
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two of America's most brilliant poets, wrote over 800 pages of letters to each other. They were best friends, platonic soulmates who rarely met but exchan…
Following Macbeth in 2016 and The Tempest in 2017, Southwark Playhouse presents Twelfth Night as part of their Shakespeare For Schools programme. The aim of their annual project is to bring …
Jermyn Street Theatre opens 2019 with a bang dressing the mental health discourse in a pink fluffy bunny suit. Original Death Rabbit is Rose Heiney's new play which details the downfall and …
Written between The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love belongs to the pool of Andrew Lloyd Webber's neglected musical. Back in 1989 it launched the career of none oth…
Dusty Hughes' new play sees Hampstead Theatre putting together veterans of the venue. From Alice Hamilton at the direction previously at the helm of Every Day I Make Greatness Happen earlier…
Theatre producer Katy Lipson - who was recently appointed as co-artistic director of the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester and who has recently taken on the road shows such as The Addams Famil…
Adam Spreadbury-Maher - artistic director of the King's Head Theatre and director of theatre and opera - is transferring his critically acclaimed production of Kevin Elyot's Coming Clean to …
The Royal Albert Hall rang in the festive season with a screening of one of the most-beloved Christmas classics from the 90s. The venue, appropriately decked in fairy lights and Christmas tr…
Natalie Ibu, artistic director of Tiata Fahodzi, is taking Arinze Kene's good dog back on the road after a stellar success in 2017. Here, she discusses her journey into theatre, directing th…
After starting out Off-Broadway in 2011 and collecting nominations from the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards, Kellen Blair and Joe Kinosian's Murder for Two landed i…
As we're ready to draw the curtain on a busy 2018, it's time to look back on my eclectic year of theatre in a consciously unmethodical collection of highlights.
Brand new arts organisation AILA debuts Aisha, written and directed by the founder, AJ. A harrowing story about child marriage, the play follows a 17-year-old's struggle as she endures the l…
Hampstead Theatre presents Uncle Vanya in a new translation by Terry Johnson, who also directs. Chekhov's well-known piece follows Sonia and her uncle Vanya as they receive a visit from her …
It's 1828 in Edinburgh and medical advances are running as fast as the number of cadavers are low. Spurred by their stack of debts and with a penchant for enterprise, William Burke Hayden Wo…
It's December 1991 and in a 'special hospital' Ruth Emily Tucker, Claudia Evlyne Oyedokun, and Dee Amy McAllister are gearing up to celebrate the holidays by demonstrating how well-adjusted …
After a sold-out run at Oxford University, composer Maria Shepard took her musical based on Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina for a one-night engagement at The Actors' Church in London as part of …
After The Murder Express and Journey To The Underworld, Funicular invite their audience to Pedley Street Station to embark on a silly Christmas journey whilst savouring a sublime feast. When…