61 stories by "Laura Peatman"
Emteaz Hussain's Blood stops off at the Soho Theatre on its UK tour, after its premiere in Coventry last month. A kind of Romeo and Juliet for the modern age (but so much more than a reworki…
Grab your flares and your disco balls, because Saturday Night Fever is back in the UK six years after it last toured the country. This new production aims to maximise both the grit and joy o…
In the first act of Taken At Midnight, Irmgard Litten (Penelope Wilton) looks ahead to a time when "all memory is forgotten and only history remains". On Holocaust Memorial Day, and the 70th…
Orfeo is widely considered to be the first master work of opera ever written, and is certainly the oldest surviving opera that is still regularly performed today. Pair that heritage with dir…
BalletBoyz's The Talent company kick off the Sadler's Wells 2015 season with a brand new work that draws on the anniversary of World War I as inspiration, and displays the company's combi…
The Jermyn Street Theatre is a hidden gem: just seconds from the big, brash lights of Piccadilly Circus, this neat little venue is tucked between the shops and restaurants of Jermyn Street, …
The Charles Court Opera company has built a reputation over the last few years for creating one of the funniest pantomimes in London, and their eighth 'boutique panto' comes to the Rosemary …
Many of us in the arts will bemoan an unpaid internship with the prospect of a low-paid job at the end of it, if at all. But what's it like at the other end of the scale, where the stakes ar…
In a small flurry of transatlantic transfers " hot on the heels of Here Lies Love and The Scottsboro Boys " Tony-award winning Memphis the Musical is the latest show to test whether the West…
Of all the weird and wonderful guises under which improv comedy can be presented, a murder mystery sounds like a brilliant idea " we all love a game of Cluedo, and with the unpredictability …
Controversial South African director Brett Bailey and his company clash cultures together at the Barbican this month as they present Verdi's Macbeth, reimagined in the troubled region of Eas…
After the "delightfully dishevelled" and "remarkably raw" The Ugly Sisters in January, RashDash Productions is returning to the Soho Theatre with Oh, I Can't Be Bothered, an experimental and…
Since its opening in May 2013, the Park Theatre has garnered a reputation for high quality, affordable theatre, with new works, rediscovered theatrical gems and a host of big names and emerg…
It just wouldn't be summer without an alfresco Shakespearean performance. Settling down for a picnic, a tipple and the words of the Bard has become a staple of the theatrical calendar, and t…
Say the name Tony Krushner, and most will think of his award-winning epic, Angels in America. Yet this earlier and lesser-known work demonstrates Krushner's politically urgent writing applie…
Gulf marks the début performance of new company Pivot Theatre, whose mission is to create theatre that is "urgent and thrilling", that "subverts expectations and shifts perspectives". In te…
It's incredible that this is the first play adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster (discounting Lloyd Webber's musical By Jeeves) ever to reach the West End. A night at the theatre to watch these …
As this play and its publicity reminds us, "the truth is rarely pure and never simple" " one of the many literary quips that, it seems, came to haunt Oscar Wilde after his fall from grace. P…
The first in Talawa Theatre Company's annual season dedicated to new writers, actors and directors " Talawa Firsts " Normal packs a lot into its 90 minutes. From suicide to drugs, immigratio…
Here Lies Henry boldly, and rather riskily, claims to: "challenge the conventional relationship between actor and audience and spins it completely on its head". I wouldn't go that far, but i…
Lorca's final work is set against a Spanish heatwave, with Bernarda Alba's domineering matriarchal regime and the pent-up sexual desire of her daughters reflected in the oppressively hot …
The Merchant of Venice is not only one of Shakespeare's most popular works, but also one of the most problematic and fiercely-debated by modern audiences. It may have been labelled a comedy …
Last year, Jethro Compton's critically-acclaimed Bunker Trilogy took us deep into the atmospheric trenches of World War I to experience some classic tales as never before. Now Compton transp…
Suicide attempts may not be the most obvious material for a comedy, but that's exactly what daring play Way Back explores as it comes to the Brighton Fringe this month " just a few miles dow…
What does a present-day drama graduate searching for her first job have in common with an 18th century fictional prostitute? Nothing, you say? Well not according to TheatreState, who sets ou…
