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This year's Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights concludes in Week Three, featuring three new plays that shine a light on challenges in modern Britain care of ETPEP Award winner Ab…
Elementary? The cast who will solve the cast of Sherlock Holmes and The Invisible Thing has been revealed! We can't wait to see this brilliant restaging that will bring London's most famous …
Husband and wife Feargus Woods Dunlop and Heather Westwell co-founded New Old Friends and have discovered a knack - and award-winning success - bringing detective stories to family audiences…
The classic advice for writers is to 'write what you know'. That's exactly what journalist and playwright Tony Leliw has done in creating his new comedy Sushi Girls. Find out how playing ho…
It's not every day that you're taught to deliver a knockout blow with the butt of a gun, or, at least, appear to convincingly do so, but that's what's been happening in rehearsals for the wo…
"What if I could go back and make a different decision?" It's a sentiment we much all have felt, and it's at the centre of new piece The Chaos Theory, in which three women are given just tha…
Are you ready to get angry? Are you ready to demand change? What are you going to do about it? Watch this extended trailer for a thrilling new version of An Enemy of the People staged next m…
Nearly 40 years after it premiered at the then-new Old Red Lion Theatre before transferring to the West End, Phil Young's devised three-hander about one couple's experience with blindness, C…
How much will Ibsen's 1892 classic An Enemy of the People resonate in 2019 post-Grenfell, Brexit Britain? How does it play out with younger, politically switched-on protagonists? We caught u…
"Sharply observed", "electric", and "brilliant drama" - Take a look at what Twitter users are saying about the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Bridge Company's productions of The Sandman and …
Take a look at the creative process of a play about artist Lucas Cranach and events that interrupt the painter's own process with rehearsal images from James Martin Charlton's new play Refor…
"Powerful and sensational", "engrossing", "definitely one to see" - the critics and bloggers have aired their views on Original Theatre's production of Meghan Kennedy's drama, Napoli, Brookl…
What happens after the #ToryLeadershipContest? Tom Salinksy and Robert Khan's Brexit [the play] has some hysterical - and worryingly plausible - predictions. What have celebrity guests and a…
This year the Magnificent Bastards have given the shit-faced treatment to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and, opening tonight (21 June 2019), Hamlet onstage. And here are a few more t…
Week Two of this year's Vibrant - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, features new plays set in Quebec, New Zealand and the bedroom, care of Colleen Murphy, Albert Belz and Sharmila Chauha…
How did an Adele song and a playwright's own mental health experiences come together to inspire Fast Love, a new piece of writing about a 25-year-old struggling to cope? Jack Albert Cook exp…
Tents, pajamas and a lot of anger - that's what we can see in these production images from Annie Jenkins' trio of female monologues A Tinder Trilogy, which runs at Theatre503 later this mont…
How did real life tragedy spark a new 21st century, social media-embracing adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, now with added brackets, Much Ado About Not(h)ing? Creator Kelly Wilson tells u…
As they open at Southwark Playhouse check out these production images from Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Bridge Company's new drama What Was Left and watch the cast of new musical The Sandm…
How did a chance meeting on a plane lead to a new production about a female astronaut writing to her daughter from space? Director Karena Johnson tells us about the inspiration behind Chasin…
What reasons might there be for a perfectly sane and strong woman to take her children's lives? That's the question, that grew out of studying Medea, that sparked Fall Prettier, the glittery…
ZooCo's Sirens are ready to raise their voices at Greenwich Theatre this week, challenging long-held myths and rewriting history. Leave your gender expectations at the door and check out our…
How many Shit-faced shows have you seen? 2019 marks the biggest-ever Shit-faced season at their London home base at Leicester Square Theatre. This week, Shit-faced Shakespeare: Hamlet follow…
"Hedgehog is exquisitely written, viscerally performed, and splendidly staged." Critics and audience have fallen for BoxLess Theatre's coming-of-age tale and its central character Manda. Fin…
The Shitfaced-Shakespeare® crew are finally ready to tackle the greatest dramatic work ever committed to the page in the English language: Hamlet. The latest in their internationally succ…