Review: Pippin, Southwark Playhouse
Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's hit 1970's musical Pippin, now showing at the Southwark Playhouse after a successful run at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre, is guaranteed to raise temp…
Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson's hit 1970's musical Pippin, now showing at the Southwark Playhouse after a successful run at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre, is guaranteed to raise temp…
This March, Austrian illusionist and performer Philipp Oberlohr returns to the Vault Festival 2018 with Das Fest, the sequel to his award-winning interactive show Das Spiel. With an academic…
In February, yet again, innocent people in America were murdered during a normal day at school. A student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, brought a semi-automat…
A messy council flat. That is the only description needed for the couple Jade (Charlotte Jane Higgins) and Liam (Arthur McBain). It is their sanctuary, their nest. The specific atmosphere of…
Take one disaffected young man. Add a spirited woman who challenges his views and forces him to try new things. The result: a manic pixie dream girl film which leaves the audience with a who…
"I used to want to change the world" Written by the German writer Falk Richter, Jude Christian directs a satirical production of the Trust at the Gate. The theatre is transported into a long…
It's bitterly cold outside and the ice settling on my skin doesn't abate as I take my seat in Wilton's Music Hall. It's dark, cold and perfectly eerie. Fog snakes across the room and a quiet…
Rafaela Carrasco's CompañÃa Rafaela Carrasco – Born a Shadow is a compelling celebration of all things feminine. The ensemble, led by Carrasco, is a mesmerising, almost warrior-l…
Anton Chekov's The Lady with a Dog, dubbed by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the greatest short stories ever written, is the seaside tale of an affair between a married Moscow banker and a much …
Frankenstein's monster is recreated through a feminist perspective of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein to celebrate its two-hundredth anniversary. The predominantly female creative …
In 1985, a fissure formed at England’s centre and split the north from the south. In the North, cut off, things began to stir. After some shocking news, a young man embarks on an extra…
Milly Thomas' Dust follows the story of Alice, as she wrestles with her recent death. Looking on as a paranormal observer, she graphically takes the audience around the people her suicide ha…
Under the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square, there is a humanoid standing in a Perspex box with her back to the audience, stood still whilst we take our seats and wait for the play to be…
Alice Barber (Creative Producer) and I (Artistic Director) run a Leeds based theatre company, Front Room Productions. The company was started and exists to create theatre in unconven…
Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust's Young Playwriting Scheme 'Pitch Your Play' Returns for 2018 Over the last twenty years, the Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust (Masterclass…
Losing a child, surely, must be any parent's worst nightmare. I've thankfully never had to endure the worry this possibility must cultivate, as I don't have any children yet, and so can't im…
Adapted by Chris Goode, Jubilee transports the original screenplay by Derek Jarman and James Whaley to the stage of the Lyric Hammersmith. Released the year after the Silver Jubilee in 1977,…
As this year's Flamenco Festival, director Angel Rojas brings us an evening at Sadler's Wells filled with rhythmic passion that evolves into a magical liturgy of fiery flamenco dancers and t…
The Quantum Physics of my Heart is playing as part of the Vaults Festival. The festival is a big operation, with over 300 shows playing across three months. The Vaults is a great location; i…
Vault Festival's array of new productions continues with another solo show: Stardust, performed and devised by Miguel Hernando Torres Umbra and his company, Blackboard Theatre, with writing …
In the current climate of cracking down on sexual predators in every industry, Conquest is an intricate tale that discusses the topics of consent and male entitlement. A timely, humorous loo…
Tracing Grace follows the true story of Grace Eves, a young girl who suffers from an illness known as encephalitis, which makes everyday a struggle. Encephalitis is an inflammation of the br…
On entering the theatre, one is led to worry for a few minutes that one has entered the wrong play: Jeremy Paxman has arrived (wig n all) to conduct the latest episode of university challeng…
THE ZOMBIE COMEDY MUSICAL WITH A LIVE FOLK SOUNDTRACK. OMNIBUS THEATRE | 7-9 MARCH. As 2018 falls to a zombie apocalypse, Tom and Bunny begin their perilous journey to Yorkshire in ques…
Stratford in its multicultural essence is a brilliant place for voices to be heard and stories to be shared. The Stronger than Fear festival is being appropriately hosted here, with Beyon…