Brown Girl Noise – Riverside Studios

4 months ago

Brightly coloured curtains hang behind painted step-stools, Hindi film songs play from the speakers. An apt stage setting for a…

Romans: A Novel – Almeida Theatre

4 months ago

Three brothers are born to daughterless parents sometime in the eighteenth century. Each is uniquely traumatised by his upbringing: the…

Calendar Girls – Blackburn Empire Theatre

4 months ago

What an absolute privilege and pleasure to return to beautiful, Blackburn Empire Theatre, for Blackburn Drama Club’s first play of…

Far Gone – The Crucible Playhouse

4 months ago

Roots Mbili Theatre brought their epic, devastating show ‘Far Gone’ to the Crucible Playhouse this week, and demonstrated the excellence…

Reunion – Kiln Theatre

4 months ago

This is a tough one. A storm-weathered family convenes on “an island off the west coast of Ireland,” and all…

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – Liverpool Empire

4 months ago

The worldwide phenomena Percy Jackson (Joe Tracz) has hit the stage with a loud and rapturous bang. Enter monsters, a…

The Talented Mr Ripley – Festival Theatre

4 months ago

I remember first reading Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley as a teenager and being completely hooked by Tom Ripley’s…

Rambert x (LA) Horde: Bring Your Own – The Lowry

4 months ago

(LA) Horde’s collaboration with Rambert, Bring Your Own, is an ambitious attempt to bottle the unruly energy of nightlife and…

The Last Laugh – Alhambra Bradford

4 months ago

Sad clown paradox is actually a syndrome where comedians with early life feelings of deprivation and isolation use an audience…

Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell – Liverpool Playhouse

4 months ago

T.S. Eliot said that poetry can communicate before it is understood. The Midnight Bell is poetry in motion – not…