302 stories by "Louise Penn"
We are now into a third lockdown, but the Theatre Cafe and Adam Blanshay Productions continue undeterred with the Theatre Channel's musical theatre spectaculars.
Twelve minutes is the average lifespan of a plastic bag, we are told at the start of Mark Conway and Alex Packer's hard-hitting fusion of text, images and sound, And Breathe.
All On Her Own is an unusual monologue which holds the attention throughout; although perhaps the borderline hysterics of the original version are ultimately truer to the play as written.
The material in Valentine's Sketch Show feels a little rough at times, but when things click and the company runs with it, you do have a giggle.
However, Northern Comedy Theatre (base…
Michelle Hudson's love life is the anchor on which this "NSFW" Zoom show and online app is tethered. Manimals is an interactive show/online game presented as a workshop launch for a new dati…
This Romeo and Juliet is an inclusive and diverse production which should please those who wish to see something taking technological risks with a classic piece.
Streaming as part of the Living Record Festival, this audio play by Bernadett Szabo, for Peripeteia Theatre Company takes inspiration from the recent people trafficking scandal resulting in …
Streaming as part of the Living Record Festival, This Noisy Isle is an audio drama for children based on The Tempest with stories and activities, a prologue, four tracks and story packs.
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This 20-minute audio play is written, performed and sound-designed by Ella Dorman-Gajic. A Bloody Shambles shares a day in the life of Jess, who suffers from both heavy flow and period pover…
Welcome to our first 2021 round-up of digital shows available for you to watch in the next few weeks.
From large-scale musicals to Zoom experiences, student showcases to the Bard, fi…
Falling Stars, a loving musical tribute to the great songwriters of the first three decades of the 20th century, is now streaming for a second time on stream.theatre.
With the current pandemic crisis facing the NHS, it is timely for Écoute Theatre to revive Take Care, its verbatim piece on informal carers and social care funding.
Produced by HERA, We Ask These Questions of Everybody uses text drawn from real conversations; samples, soundscapes and singing. It is performed by a cross-genre, all-disabled ensemble, plac…
Rampant Collective's latest show GirlPlay is a wickedly funny exploration of teenage sexuality and female curiosity.
The latest digital show from Lambert Jackson Productions and the London Coliseum is the Off-Broadway hit, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
A vicious satire on the beauty industry as depicted in the media, The Meat Cabaret is Slap 'n' Tickle's new show. An abrasive musical which makes up in innovative ideas for any lack of subtl…
New musicals like the award-winning Islander continue to challenge the status quo of what the genre can offer.
The two-hander cast of Kirsty Findlay and Bethany Tennick p...
A six-part web series about social influencers, Controversy is filmed entirely on Zoom. It is written by Maya Katherine, who stars as Hayley, a student who aims to hit the big time and becom…
Scott McQuaid's short play premiered on the virtual Thornhill Theatre Space. At just 14 minutes, I Stole Satan's Girlfriend feels more like a television comedy sketch than a fully-fledged pl…
What starts as a glimpse into a private chat between friends becomes something much more complicated and dark as Broken Link progresses.
New play Overflow by Travis Alabanza returns as a digital stream and proves to be an intriguing hour about the politics of women's bathrooms and who is allowed in them.
Alive feels a very sensitive exploration of close companionship despite clear differences, and the discussion around "letting go" were starkly presented, slickly directed by Penny Cole.
The beauty of Avalanche is not just in the poetry of its words, but also the honesty it displays on tough subjects within scene changes and forbidding musical motifs.
A double whammy of festive musical frolics for the festive season reached us with the launch of Thespie's All I Want For Christmas Is Theatre and The Theatre Channel's fourth episode Hopeful…
The wide range of characters, sound and visual effects, and pithy commentary make for excellent entertainment in Creation Theatre's The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.