A peculiar sort of show, The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall concerns the story of (one) Hans Pfaall and his endeavour to reach the moon in a hot air balloon. This production is ch…
In the wake of Brexit, we hear the rise of racism and exclusion to points that we simply cannot fathom. It seems commonplace now to hear of murmurs in the street of hating refugee scroungers…
Celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary, Jesus Christ Superstar protests once again, as Timothy Sheader adds modern spice to Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock phenomenon with not just heaven …
I don’t know what I did to deserve almost being set on fire but to see The Bodyguard‘s fully charged, pyrotechnic laden opening number thrown at the audience with such glorious f…
Walking out of Camden People's Theatre into the frenzy that is London after spending almost 2 hours in Bridgend leaves you feeling displaced. Capturing the authenticity of this place in Wale…
It was a packed auditorium, and a very warm evening: the perfect excuse for spectators to grumble about shared body heat and the scent of one or two undeodourised armpits. But there was no g…
High As Sugar was a play of many parts. There were musical numbers, scenes of reminiscent story-telling, conversations with unseen strangers and audience interaction. There was also parts de…
To a soundtrack of mid-2000s classics, Some Girl(s) sees groom-to-be 'Guy' (is it a name or a moniker for all of the male sex?) on a trip across the USA to see a selection of his ex-girlfrie…
There are many interesting angles or routes a play on internet grooming and protecting teens from explicit online content could take. Why writer Nathan Lucky Wood chose to turn what could ha…
Ahead of Wac Art's aerial production, InFlight From Home, their Head of Drama recalls how the centre for performing arts helped him turn around his own life " and reminds us why inclusivity …
“The Game's Afoot!” shouts a police detective, in Sherlock Holmes-esque fashion. Armed with a pen, a map and an initial clue, we separate ourselves from the other 40-odd audience…
Following the night of Maria's big house party, she is tidying up and Andy pops round to pick up his sunglasses. They laugh and talk about what's going on with each other at the moment, Andy…
The King's Head Theatre on Upper Street is one of a series of venues which are playing host to Festival 46, a showcase of the best of new British writing. This week is the turn of Don't Look…
What an exciting prospect this play looked at first glance. Twelth Night, Shakespeare's comedy classic, performed solely by a team of London's most exciting comedians. Oh dear, what a terrif…
It's hard to define experimental theatre in a world where everything has been done before. Like an over-used Rubik's cube where most combinations have been explored, and still we have no fin…
From the creators of LIMBO " seen last year at Wonderground's Spiegeltent " and some of the minds behind Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour, Blanc de Blanc arrives at the atmospheric Hippodrome Casi…
"Nothing happens when there's a crisis except for work on that crisis; you're a politician now, figure out what your beliefs are and get back to me." Proud " Michael Healey's play, revived b…
"The Academy Awards [Oscars] have a race problem. It's big. But the four black actors in Room 4 aren't particularly concerned with that. They have a much bigger problem at hand. They've just…
The sun went down on another year of theatre, music, arts and literature as Latitude wrapped itself up on Sunday. On the last day of the Suffolk festival, I wound my own experience up with t…
Despite children learning it from a young age, tap has never quite had the platform as a style of dance that ballet has managed to achieve. It lacks the perceived grace and style of its big …
The year is 1988, the setting Waterbury, Connecticut. Ronald Reagan is president and Jane Fonda, by then a double Oscar winner, was shooting Stanley and Iris opposite Robert de Niro. Her hig…
Fiasco Theater Company’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine's musical Into The Woods is a creative staging of a musical theatre classic. The musical weaves seve…
As a director, Emily Louizou's take on Hamletmachine is an interesting one. A stripped back, choral version of Heiner Muller’s experimental text is certainly not what I was expecting, …
One of the best things about Latitude is the chance to see new pieces of writing, choreography and performance. Pieces that have never been performed in front of an audience before, pieces t…
Latitude. The festival we'd all like to be when we grow up. Relaxed, stylishly decked out, and a line up that sees you darting between the theatre tent, the main stage and a million tucked a…