Review: The Toll, The Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Slick, insightful, and exceptionally funny: critically acclaimed poet Luke Wright's The Toll is a powerful reading of selected poems from his second collection. Following the success of the …
Slick, insightful, and exceptionally funny: critically acclaimed poet Luke Wright's The Toll is a powerful reading of selected poems from his second collection. Following the success of the …
A sumptuous exploration of modern tango, Milonga (m¡longa) first premiered in London in 2013 and has now returned for its first UK tour. Choreographed and directed by highly acclaimed cho…
Charlotte Josephine meets me at Old Street station, before taking us to a nearby café that has the murmur of Beyonce over our heads. The writer and performer looks slightly dazed and …
Emma Rice's "Summer of Love" at Shakespeare's Globe proves to be her farewell season as Artistic Director. And what a farewell her Twelfth Night has turned out to be. Rice invites you all ab…
Inspired by the scientific and spiritual concepts of Zero Point energy, Zero Point is the most recent work by Array, the company of multi-award winning choreographer Darren Johnston. The gro…
I've never been to Margate, Kent, let alone its theme park Dreamland. This had me concerned as I entered Margate/Dreamland at Shoreditch Town Hall's ditch theatre. Yet somehow during the hou…
A chill-out that summarises the current state of Britain's chemsex scene " drugs, sex parties and damaged backstories are all part of the package. 5 Guys Chillin' is a verbatim consolidation…
May, the random 5th month in the year where Mother Nature is undecided, and New Years resolutions have been long abandoned. However uneventful May might be, it is full of bank holidays and o…
If you worry that cruel life has scuppered your dreams of becoming an investigative journalist, fear not: Death of the King at the CoLab Factory offers an opportunity to live those yet unrea…
Director Richard Twyman makes a stirring case for setting his touring production of Othello, now playing in-the-round at Wilton's Music Hall, in modern dress. In one scene early on, when Oth…
Get £10 tickets to see Light at Battersea Arts Centre Light | Battersea Arts Centre | 31 May " 17 June Set atmospherically in darkness with physical theatre, torchlight and puls…
£8 tickets to see Nora Invites Aggiss, Burrows, Fargion and Tanguy at Lilian Baylis Studio (Sadler's Wells) Nora Invites Aggiss, Burrows, Fargion and Tanguy | Lilian Baylis Studio …
Upon entering the black box studio at The Bunker Theatre, house music is pumping and in the bar, club lights are flashing. This is not your average theatre visit. Adam Scott-Rowley presents …
The first 45 minutes or so of Trevor Nunn's production of Lettice and Lovage at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre are an utter delight. Peter Shaffer's three-act play, originally written …
Gomez and Morticia might be hoping for an unhappily ever after, but the UK tour of The Addams Family, now stopping off at the New Wimbledon Theatre, offers only unabashedly cheery, good-natu…
Adapted by Lee Hall, the creator of Billy Elliot, and based on the novel The Sopranos by Alan Warner, comes the new musical Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. It follows the story of six Catho…
The Young Vic's versatile main space has been transformed yet again; this time we are sitting under designer Lizzie Clachan's huge white disk, a canvas for projection stretching over the aud…
Several audience members are cradling their knees as they sit on the bed of soil. Two or three lucky ones have managed to nab a log to perch on. I collapse onto an elusive tree stump and pra…
The opening is punchy; the dialogue sharp. Charlotte Josephine and Daniel Foxsmith jump right in " tales of revenge porn and teenage sex education fly out the gates. Josephine's writing is q…
There are many things you might associate with the Queen Mother. Her favourite tipple, The Belgian; organ music; group sex? Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer immerses you in the surreal world o…
The Act 1 set for Nicholas Hytner's stellar production of Don Carlo, now in its third revival at the Royal Opera House, looks a bit like a dollhouse designer's rendering of a wintry forest: …
Noël Coward's 1926 This Was A Man had the good fortune to be banned before its London premiere for its casual depiction of adultery. That scandalous history has leant the play one of the …
Under 25s get £5 tickets to The Treatment at the Almeida Theatre. The Treatment | Almeida Theatre | Runs until 10 June ★★★★ The Guardian, Time Out, The T…
Produced by Moya Productions, Dyl chronicles Mark Weinman's playwriting debut at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington. With a variety of previous acting credits, Weinman follows in the foot…
Who knew Harry Potter had such vocal, enthusiastic fans? A unanimous me? Fair enough. J.K Rowling's phenomenally successful series turns 20 this year and with repeat visits and continued exp…