London

Murder Before Evensong – Watermill Theatre

There is something particularly satisfying about watching a production that understands exactly how to use the theatre it inhabits, and…

2 weeks ago

Dear Joanna, My Favourite Animals Are Scorpions – Bread and Roses Theatre

Dear Joanna, My Favourite Animals Are Scorpions is an unsettling exploration of childhood friendship, adolescent obsession and the ways in…

3 weeks ago

The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media) – New Diorama

There is something inherently difficult about making theatre about an event that is still unfolding, particularly one as politically charged…

3 weeks ago

Three Men in a Boat – Rose Theatre

Three Men in a Boat, plus a dog, is a spectacular feat of musical comedy directed by Christopher Haydon. Based…

3 weeks ago

The Last Ship – Theatre Royal Drury Lane

There is a compelling musical somewhere inside ‘The Last Ship’. Its story of a Wallsend shipbuilding community facing the closure…

3 weeks ago

The Urmetazoan – Hampstead Theatre

There is something genuinely refreshing about The Urmetazoan. At a time when theatre can sometimes feel like it needs to…

3 weeks ago

FLOP! – Wilton’s Music Hall

A musical can close early, lose money and still leave behind a song worth hearing.  That is the appealing idea…

3 weeks ago

F*ck You Claire – Etcetera Theatre

F*ck You Claire is an ambitious one-act play written and performed by Rosie Hollingworth. It follows Penelope, a woman in…

3 weeks ago

Causa: The Trial of the Illegal Potato – Lower Marsh Arts Club

A small basement room in Waterloo, with bare brick walls and a simple lighting rig was the venue for Causa:…

3 weeks ago

Present Laughter – Richmond Theatre

There is something wonderfully appropriate about a comedy concerned with theatrical excess being given a production that barely seems willing…

3 weeks ago