20 stories by "Ed Theakston"
Dubbed 'New York's finest chanteuse', Lady Rizo is well on her way to becoming cabaret royalty in London as well. She has stormed consecutive Edinburgh Fringe festivals and is now back at th…
Australian circus company Circa has revolutionised the way audiences perceive circus all over the world with its unique contemporary circus shows. Its latest work, Opus, a collaboration with…
The Bodyguard has just undergone its biggest cast change since opening on the West End last year, and the creative team certainly took a few risks. Every single one of them has paid off. The…
Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro is a perennial favourite among opera fans, and David McVicar's acclaimed 2006 production has returned to the Royal Opera House for its fourth revival. It is a …
Simon Callow's one-man play Inside Wagner’s Head is an enthralling, dense and unpredictable attempt to examine the inner workings of the mind of divisive German composer Richard Wagner…
Kicking off the National Youth Theatre's autumn season with style, Pope Joan is the debut play by Louise Brealey about the famed cross-dressing pope. Known, perhaps, for her television role …
Glasshouse is unorthodox to the extreme, and is (perhaps deliberately) not an easy piece to watch. There is no distinction between audience and actor, beyond the lights that pick out the per…
New musical entertainment Gabriel will provide you with some of the most magical hours you will spend in a London theatre this summer. It is a new and joyously unclassifiable show, written b…
Have you ever been to a séance? Have you ever been tempted to try to contact the other side? Have you ever felt the presence of some ethereal being? Or have you always been the sensible, cy…
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northern Spain; its capital city is Barcelona and it has a population of just over 7.5 million. Now, thanks to Bots & Barrals Theatre Company, Lon…
Streets, the newest production from the youthful Interval Productions, makes the bold claim to be “a new kind of musical”. That sets up a huge amount of expectation in an audienc…
Sarah Kosar's new play Hot Dog is an intriguing, conceptual piece that immediately gets the audience asking loads of questions. Transporting us to small town America, Maryanne, her husband, …
Written by Adam Usden, a member of the Royal Court Studio Group and a newly selected member of the Traverse 50, Steve and Then It Ended is set on the day of the apocalypse. This is a popular…
Matt Thomas, in his one-man show, attempts to end the religion vs. science debate once and for all. Written with and directed by Sarah Elaine Stewart, the show is billed as a “comedic …
Opera In Space's production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is not your traditional opera. In the same vein as companies such as Punchdrunk (famed for, amongst others, its productions of Faust …
It is rare in Britain to see superb ensemble work, or to find a theatre company working in the almost extinct rep model. It is doubly rare that an audience gets the opportunity to see one…
Although the feeling is suggested in many plays, it is rare that one truly feels like a fly-on-the-wall when at the theatre. BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne's new play takes its name from a…
The eponymous 'Blackta' is a black actor, one who is often there to fill a quota of non-white performers. This crackling satire from Nathaniel Martello-White paints a picture of a world wher…
Thom Sutherland's new production of the gender-bending, joyously camp Victor/Victoria is not to be missed. While it must be said that the score is not entirely consistent, the lyrics teeter …
Shakespeare's Othello is without a doubt a masterwork. Many of the themes " xenophobia, the place of women, jealousy, love, ambition " are certainly just as relevant to today's London as whe…
