With his death earlier this year, there's no question that the spectre of David Bowie has been looming large, but in From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, it seems to loom larger for no one more…
Playwright and actor Jay Taylor describes making the shift from acting to writing – and how his career onstage helped him shape his identity in his new offstage role. Afte…
As a student, I often hear complaints, mainly from the older generation, about how little we contribute to society. During this period of time, when older people look at students they see a …
From Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott's debut piece, Rubber Ring: Â a one man show about growing up gay in a rural Norfolk village. McDermott writes and performs in this open account o…
One of the reasons we go to the theatre is to see creatives try new ways of doing things; to witness innovation through experimentation. Setting Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, then, in a non-t…
From the man who brought us An Audience With Jimmy Savile, possibly London's most talked about play of 2015, Jonathan Maitland returns to the Park Theatre with Deny, Deny, Deny, another curr…
Imagine for a moment, that you are ill. You experience muscle weakness, seizures, paralysis, blackouts and other symptoms. You know you are ill, but you're continuously told there's nothing …
Intermission Youth Theatre is, by its own admission, no ordinary theatre company. Originally founded by an actor-turned-minister in 2001, its mission is to bring young people from disadvanta…
With so many arts graduates female, but so few women at the top of some of our creative industries, Jennifer Tuckett, Course Leader on the MA Dramatic Writing at Drama Centre London, Cent…
International Youth Arts Festival 2017 will take place in Kingston this summer from 7-16 July. Now in its 9th year, the festival, run by Creative Youth Charity, showcases the very best of yo…
It is irrefutable that choreographer, Charlotte Vincent, is passionate about her subject. The Place's bar is filled with pre-show information and activities that encourage the audience to en…
It's been a long time coming, but finally the West End premiere of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, which set the US alight in 2001, has arrived. The structure of this music…
Often romanticised for their gangster lifestyle, the East London Kray twins hold an iconic status, further pronounced by the 2015 film Legend featuring Tom Hardy playing both Ron and Reggie.…
It's been just about a year since I got to review Kneehigh Theatre's thrilling Dead Dog in a Suitcase at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. When I heard they were coming back to my home theatre, …
The Island Nation raises awareness of the longest war in Asian history- the Sri Lankan civil war. Playwright Christine Bacon (Artistic Director of Iceandfire theatre company) describes this …
Waiting in the lobby to see Merryville we are offered the option of ear plugs, in case the music is too loud. I take a pair, just in case, and ten minutes in am glad I did. Its creators desc…
Silence Faces bring something completely different to the London scene. Follow Suit is an unusual mash-up of absurdist theatre combining elements of mine and clowning. Four characters (or pe…
Writer Sir Ronald Harwood has had to state that, although having served as a dresser to the great Sir Donald Wolfit between the years 1953 and 1958, neither of the characters of Sir or Norma…
The Keller House is one with white picket fencing, an immaculately kept house, with smiles, laughter and kisses. With a broken tree at the forefront of the garden, it gives a glimpse into wh…
Joshua McTaggart describes the inspiration behind a brand new theatre space in London. American director Anne Bogart has a beautiful quote about what the experience of going to the theatre s…
"I always love it when you hear a siren go by" says father-to-be Kurt as he lies in bed with his pregnant wife, "You always think, 'it's not me'". Yet in this perfectly-pitched domestic dram…
If you are not familiar with the story of Dracula by Bram Stoker, it would be easy to misinterpret this detailed account between a doctor and his patient as baffling. What seems to be a rath…
The story of Anastasia and her presumed flight from the slaughtering of the Tsar family is a modern fairy-tale that has stayed with me since childhood. I grew up on the hope she made it out …
It's not difficult to see why the Finborough has programmed a revival of Howard Brenton's Magnificence. Written in 1973 during a time of financial crisis, IRA terrorism, and an emergent far-…
Bill Russell and Henry Krieger's Side Show has had two Broadway outings, neither lasting long on the Great White Way; this Southwark Playhouse production marks the show's UK premiere and bri…