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Review: Escape From Planet Trash, Pleasance Theatre5.0starsEscape From Planet Trash is like the long lost millennial child of the Rocky Horror Show and Samuel Beckett's Endgame and if that d…
Despite daily adversity, disabled artists are challenging and changing the industry. Lindsey Huebner talks to Matilda Ibini about her new play, Little Miss Burden. I settle in my favourite c…
Review: La Clique, Leicester Square Spiegeltent3.0starsThe theme of the night, I'm guessing, must be domesticity. I've come to this conclusion after a man juggles champagne flutes and lemons…
Review: Stray Dogs, Park Theatre2.0starsIt's 1940 in Russia, in the midst of Stalin's rule. Anna Akhmatova, one of Russia's greatest modern poets, has lost her husband, and is at risk of los…
In the second of multi-talented AYT writer Emma Bentley's series of very personal articles, she talks about feeling overwhelmingly jealous of her peers and whether it actually matters if you…
Review: A Letter to a Friend in Gaza, The Coronet Theatre3.0starsThere is an unmistakable air of uneasiness in The Coronet Theatre as I take my seat; something taut and sinister that waits, …
Review: Black Men Walking, Stephen Joseph Theatre 5.0stars What do you think of when you think of walking? Most commonly you might picture white people. These tend to be the people on the Mo…
Review: Jack and the Beanstalk, Oldham Coliseum Theatre 3.0stars There's a tangible feeling of jovial warmth in the Oldham Coliseum for their Christmas pantomime, proudly described as "renow…
Review: Wild Card: Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Sadler's Wells 3.0stars Dancing between hard and soft; audience and performer; noise and words; lovers and strangers; consenting and preventing;…
Review: I Wanna Be Yours, East Riding Theatre5.0starsAt first glance, the set up for I Wanna Be Yours seems remarkably simple. Here is a boy and a girl, they want to love each other but thin…
Review: Medusa, The Pleasance Theatre3.0starsWe are in the midst of a cultural phenomenon with contemporary British theatre. From Six, to Emilia and most recently & Juliet, many creative…
Review: Touching The Void, Duke of York's Theatre 4.0stars Touching The Void, based on the best selling book, is a real life epic that whisks us to the dizzying summit of the Siula Grande mo…
Review: Red Palace, The Vaults2.0starsBeing but an 'umble despot trying to scratch out a living in my modest smallholding in the hinterlands (aka anywhere beyond Zone 1) at the outskirts of …
Review: Out of Order, Home Manchester4.0starsForced Entertainment's Out of Order marks a return of the Sheffield-based theatre company to HOME, following on from their last performance of Re…
Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Wilton's Music Hall 4.0stars "The wonderful thing about the music hall", Wilton's Music Hall board member Dr. John Gayner told me as we took neighbouring seat…
Review: I Will Still Be Whole (When You Rip Me In Half), The Bunker3.0stars22 years on since Joy walked out on her baby EJ, this mother and daughter reunite in Ava Wong Davies' play I Will S…
Bush Theatre's Baby Reindeer certainly courted controversy with its depiction of a man dealing with a stalker, pushed to the limit. After friends, Lou and Toby saw the production they were l…
Review: Works, Sadler's Wells4.0starsI find it really interesting when shows allow you to imagine who the characters may be, what their relationships are like, and what is happening to them.…
Review: A Haunted Existence, Battersea Arts Centre4.0stars  "You may find these things morally wrong. I do not." That is the ringing clarion call extending from the Somerset town of Taunt…
Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Barbican 3.0stars Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a play well-loved; it has brought us 10 Things I Hate About You and numerous other stage and scree…
Review: Excluded, St. Saviour's Church 5.0stars Shakespeare has found a way into most of our lives, whether at school unwillingly, at the theatre gladly or in our daily language unnoticed. W…
Review: Nosedive, Barbican5.0starsEverything is vibrant and exciting about this show. It is a journey shared between the audience and the performers, a collaborative hope that everything wil…
The Bunker Theatre's General Manager, Lee A. Whitelock writes an honest and equally heartbreaking and optimistic piece on what its closure means to him, the team and to the Arts. The outpour…
Review: Souvenir, Secret Location4.0starsArriving at a Fitzrovia flat whose rent I'd be scared to speculate, I am welcomed to Anna's thirtieth birthday party. Looking around at the immaculat…
Review: One Under, Leeds Playhouse3.0starsThis revival of Winsome Pinnock's One Under (first presented at the Kiln Theatre in 2005), has been commissioned by Ramps on the Moon, and co-produc…
