REVIEW: Harmony
Reading Time: 2 minutesHarmony is the debut play by Grub Street Theatre Company, a brand-new production company committed to bold new storytelling.
Month May 2025
REVIEW: Taming of the “Shrew”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Taming of the Shrew is a widely polarising play, with Shakespeare’s original text often criticised for its overt misogyny.
REVIEW: Chop Chop
Reading Time: 2 minutesChop Chop, created, performed and written by Andrea Holland, uses the cooking materials as an accurate representation of who these two characters are: silly stereotypes of both the British and Spanish cultures.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Fiona Wade
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuperintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead. Fiona Wade who, following 11 years in Emmerdale, took to the stage earlier this year in the hit 2:22 A Ghost Story joins the cast as Freya Kipling. We sat down with her to discuss Picture You Dead.
REVIEW: Little Women
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night, I caught Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women at the Oxford Playhouse (running Tuesday 27 – Saturday 31 May), and overall, it was a really enjoyable night at the theatre
REVIEW: House of Life
Reading Time: 2 minutesHitting the Soho Theatre with the confidence of a street preacher and the colour scheme of a drag queen, House of Life gets the clergy on their feet with their joyful brand of uplifting entertainment.
REVIEW: Love to Love
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Love to Love’, written by Flo Petrie and directed by Oli Bates, having just finished its run at the Golden Goose Theater, is a deep and vulnerable examination of love and relationships.
REVIEW: Outer Waves Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesOUTER WAVES is a new alternative arts festival designed to fill a cultural gap in Liverpool’s existing festival landscape. Inspired by the city’s rich underground music and art history, our aim is to celebrate and strengthen Liverpool’s grassroots creative communities.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jason Moore
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnBook Theatre presents “Red Peppers” by Noel Coward and “Aged in Wood” by Cian Griffin.
Set in a theatre dressing room in 1935, “Red Peppers” is one of Noel Coward’s most celebrated comic one act plays.
The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues.
IN CONVERSATION WITH:Toby Gordon
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Toby who directs a new production of Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare in the Squares, opening 4th June at Leinster Square.