Oh, to be young and on the run from the Corporation. That's the plight of Moonshine, the thirteen-year-old heroine of Magic Maverick's half term show for kids, Moonshine's Entirely Necessary…
Win two tickets to see Spillikin at Pleasance Theatre. Spillikin by Pipeline Theatre Company | 7 – 19 March | Pleasance Theatre How often do you get a fully functioning, c…
Just moments after stepping out of Bunker Theatre, it was obvious this venue will keep drawing me back. Underground, raw and quirky, tailoring its space to each show coming in, making theatr…
On a bare stage, filled only with four chairs and an incongruous looking cello, a man hesitantly appears, looks cautiously around him, picks up the cello, and begins to play. He produces a c…
Luke Courtier's latest show, The Texas Tax Man, is a meta-theatrical comedy about freelancers and the shame of missing the self-assessment tax deadline. Two shy, thoughtful cowboys set out t…
Tackling a topic like death, or perhaps the topic of death, it would have be easy for this production to slip into whimsical comments on wasted youth, dusty wrinkles, and morbid clichés. Bu…
My heart is bursting with the wordless song that filled a dark and cavernous brick vault, with such warmth and such friendship that I conclude must be unique to the art of modern opera. A hy…
Pulling off a play about emotional abuse in one single, hour-long act, with minimal props and limited space is no small task. Walk The Dog Productions does not shy away from the challenge: W…
The stage is dressed with a plethora of brown. From brown leather sofas to brown wooden wall cladding, the colour scheme sets an expectation of a warm, cosy, and intimate setting. This expec…
If you are looking for spiritual enlightenment from your cultural excursions then please do look a little further; Three Unrelated Short Plays is light hearted and fun, but not a lot else &#…
Lightbox Theatre have breathed life into The Blue Bird, which was written in the early 20th century by Maurice Maeterlinck. The Albany was filled with eager children full of high energy who …
"I was very active, I was sporty and fit. I was working as a freelancer in the midlands. I just didn't expect it to happen…" Getting better slowly is the story of one man's life changing s…
Under 26’s get £5 tickets to see Fire In The Machine Fire In The Machine | 22 February " 4 March | Battersea Arts Centre Sounds Like Chaos know how to use your time. Fire …
London is, and has always been my home. My urban playground and my cultural melting pot of professional development and personal frivolity. The capital of the United Kingdom, London hosts th…
The Union Theatre's decision to put on a rendition of Anyone Can Whistle is exciting: it is a lesser known Sondheim musical which has never enjoyed much fame or success. Â It is a strangel…
Rachel (Maddie Rice) is grounded, bubbly and immediately likeable. She is simultaneously nervous, terrified and anxious with every breath. As she narrates her story, she jumps between these …
Two men eat lit candles. A live chicken in paraded around the stage and is left to feed off a smashed watermelon. A vase of flowers is emptied into the skirt of one performer's gown. A woman…
Win a pair of tickets to see Low Level Panic at Orange Tree Theatre. Low Level Panc by Clare McIntyre | 16 February – 19 March | Orange Tree Theatre Three flatmates. A sin…
Rosa Maggiora's block set, while crisp and clean, seems altogether out of place for this production " too futuristic and alternative compared with the more traditional story of a girl that s…
The truth as we know it has become subjective and individual. Facts that may be true to you and I may be complete falsehoods to another. The story of real life writer Miguel de Cervantes, as…
There is no shortage of pillars around the perimeter of the London Coliseum, but two more appeared onstage at the opening night of the English National Opera's The Pirates of Penzance: a col…
School Play, by Alex Mackeith, is at its best when the dialogue is quick, elegant, and very funny. It begins with the start of a school day. Lara (Fola Evans-Akingbola), a headteacher's admi…
If you were to be told you were going to see a comedy, this is the last subject you would think of – brain tumours. The topic of illnesses, particularly cancer, is a sore and sensitive…
One would not normally compare the plights of the British Army in the Battle of Agincourt and WWI. Yet despite the obvious contrasting features " the former casting the English as aggressors…
A flick of a wrist, the extension of a finger, a fist beating twice upon a chest. These are the gestures that propel Orla Sanders' searing one-woman performance in purged " the unsettling bu…