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What does it really mean to be British and Chinese in contemporary England? That's the question posed by Ghost Girl // Gwei Mui 鬼妹, Jennifer Tang's devised theatre piece which runs…
Heading to VAULT Festival with kids? In which case, we recommend you put Alf The Highwayman on your family's must-see list. This award-winning show, bringing an 18th-century adventure story …
'I was quite ignorant about WW1's history.' It's a big admission to make from Michelle Yim, who directs Ross Ericson's hit one-man drama The Unknown Soldier, which is set in the aftermath of…
Come the revolution, there will be lots of boxes and tiny toy soldier... certainly if rehearsals for new dystopian comedy The Empire Has Fallen is anything to go by. Check out these candid b…
Charlie Brooks and Simon Lipkin star as parents to an autistic child in Alex Oates' new play All in Row, which receives its world premiere next month at London's Southwark Playhouse. Gen up …
Oscar Wilde's best-known comedy of Victorian London manners receives a modern makeover via a modern Yorkshire council estate. Th'Importance of Bein' Earnest premieres next month for a limite…
Esme Lonsdale, co-founder of UnTied Productions, is one of a growing breed of performers who don't want to wait around for the chance to work so create the work themselves. As UnTied Produc…
Paulette Tajah is best known as one of the Queen's of Lover's Rock. She has been a reggae recording star since the late 1980s. But this month she ventures onto a different type of stage to s…
"Brilliant", "Moving and engaging", "Ingenius" - audiences of Tiny Room's drama Loop have taken to Twitter to sing the praises of Peter Mulligan's drama about a barman considering his life. …
Sheila Atim has 'aced' another performance and made her musical mark at the Finborough. Reviews are in for her and the European premiere of writer-director Ché Walker's Time Is Love / Tiemp…
Call Me Vicky, charting a transwoman's challenges in 1980s London, is written by sisters and debut playwrights Nicola and Stacey Victoria Bland, inspired by their true-life godmother's exper…
What do our contemporary British culture and philosophy owe to Europe? As the unravelling Brexit chaos begins to bite, a new British play celebrates the great sixteenth-century European who …
Never underestimate the importance of coincidence in life. If Michael Gove hadn't made a comment about the First World War, acclaimed drama The Unknown Soldier may never have been written.
Wrapping up their first tour of the UK, and after a second sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, sonic specialists Darkfield bring their two hit container shows Séance and Flight to London for a two-m…
We're counting down to the premiere of Max Wilkinson's absurdist, time-romping comedy Ghost Fruit, opening next week at Camden People's Theatre. The four-strong cast play 18 roles between th…
Paulette Tajah is best known as one of the Queen's of Lover's Rock. She has been a reggae recording star since the late 1980s. But this month she ventures onto a different type of stage to s…
How many writers and actors will it take to make you to FEEL... and then Feel More again? Proforça Theatre Company has pulled together a sensational line-up for its expanded "All the Feel…
What do Franz Kafka, Truman Capote, Elizabeth Taylor, Billie Holiday and a sheepdog have in common? Ghost Fruit, a new absurdist comedy written and directed by Max Wilkinson, gets its world …
Jermyn Street Theatre's 2019 PORTRAIT season opens this month with the stage premiere of Rose Heiney's one-woman play for our internet age, Original Death Rabbit. Less than a week until tele…
Inspired by true events, Ian Buckley's latest play, The Project, tells the story of an unusual World War Two transit camp where tragedy and cutting-edge entertainment meet. It receives its w…
How do you prepare to play Martin Luther King Jr? We have a hint at the answer, as writer/performer Christopher Tajah gave us candid images of rehearsals for Dream of a King, which runs at t…
At the start of the year we're all looking for inspiration. Director Bernie C Byrnes has already found hers working with writer/performer Christopher Tajah on Martin Luther King Jr play Drea…
New theatre company UnTied Productions will launch itself into the world with the premiere production of Eddie Palmer's comedy about a stepfamily, Out of Step. The debut production, directed…
The European premiere of writer-director Ché Walker's Time Is Love / Tiempo es Amor officially opens tonight at London's Finborough Theatre, where it's running for a strictly limited season…
Jermyn Street Theatre's 2019 PORTRAIT season opens this month with the stage premiere of Rose Heiney's one-woman play for our internet age, Original Death Rabbit. Less than a week until tele…