302 stories by "Louise Penn"
Echo/Chamber is a clever, creative and thought-provoking work with high production values and strong performances from Oliver McFadden and Isaac Hesketh.
Audio drama small acts is part of 45North's Written on the Waves series, and the first of the two You Plays.
45North's first series of audio dramas, collated as Written on the Waves, ends with Marika McKennell's Cunch, a story of two teenage girls who get themselves involved in drug pushing and gan…
Showstoppers, the most recent episode of the Theatre Channel's web series is a lovely, lively celebration of the reopening of the West End this week.
The unstoppable Creation Theatre has been one of the highlights of digital theatre production during this 14 months of uncertainty, and for their new show they return to the works of William…
Free to view on YouTube, this edition of The Showstoppers' Alternative Eurovision for 2021, a week in advance of the main event, proves to be a dramatic sequel to last year's shenanigans, bu…
A pheromone is a chemical reaction affecting behaviour, which appears in LipZinc's Pheromone in the person of a woman who causes a revolution at number 19, the home of David and Eva.
Currently available to rent on Sweetstream, Different Theatre's Unquiet Slumbers: The Haunting of Emily Brontë returns to the topic of women of literature in this meeting of minds between…
An Acorn by Caridad Svich is a cross-channel co-production between Impel Theatre and the Oldham Coliseum; first performed in 2017 in North America and now reimagined for the digital space.
Very end of Blackpool Pier or Phoenix Nights, and if you appreciate either you'll love Lip Service's clever characterisations, sly digs at the supernatural, and the way Château Ghoul is d…
North West, created by Anna Morrissey and Tristan Kajanus, is available in two versions; one online and one a self-guided audio tour with which you can wander the former North Westminster Sc…
Directed by Adam Lenson, with Molly Lynch as The Woman and Stefan Bednarczyk as the mute accompanist, The Sorrows of Satan takes inspiration from Marie Corelli's 1895 novel, but moves the ac…
New Perspectives and Tim Crouch have transformed novel House Mother Normal into a digital installation for the Brighton Festival which you can explore either in person or on your screens.
A tense, psychological thriller, Shaun McKenna's new play Rocky Road is a two-hander set across a couple of flats where new tenant Kirsten Foster meets building manager Tyger Drew-Honey. The…
The digital revival of The F*ck Am I Doing marks the inaugural production of new writing initiative, The COW Community, founded by recent graduates of the Royal Central School of Speech and …
It's the merry month of May, which means it is… Eurovision! To celebrate, stream.theatre is hosting a virtual revival of Craig Christie's witty parody of our country cousins across Europe,…
Being Mr Wickham is a lovely idea: we are not just seeing the change in Wickham, but in Adrian Lukis portrayal. He clearly has a close affinity with the character and fits back into it perfe…
Barry McStay's play Vespertilio, first staged at the Vault Festival in 2019, is a two-hander about bats, vampires, gay life, lies, and displacement.
We are back on the dark side with the latest production from Chronic Insanity's 12×12 project " There's Something Among Us starts with the premise of five YouTubers who died in a fire. T…
Writer/director P Burton-Morgan and composer Ben Glasstone have developed a pair of characters in Cells who build their stories in song as they see the reflection of self in each other.
Following successful runs at The Theatre Upstairs in Dublin and The Vault Festival, Sacrament now comes to the King's Head Theatre's Plays on Film season.
King's Head Theatre and Spectacular Music present Alexander S. Bermange's sparkling musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical, which heads into London from the Edinburgh Fringe with a…
The idea behind YouTube's series of Soft Sessions, launched last year, is "it's time to ask the artist what art they want to create". All six of the performers in this concert have explored …
A co-production from BoxLess Theatre and the Barn Theatre, and adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful is the story of Private Thomas Peaceful (Emily Costello, the first…
Safe is a verbatim play created and directed by Alexis Gregory (I reviewed his work previously in Sex/Crime). Previously performed at the Soho Theatre, this is now reimagined for the digital…
