Reading Time: 3 minutesZach Zucker performs under the alias Jack Tucker and is perhaps best known for emceeing Stamptown, the comedy-cabaret-vaudeville-circus-musical-armageddon revue that rocks the Fringe every year and tours the world to great acclaim.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhilst taking her mother to cancer treatment, Katie meets an older gent, George, who she watches shuffle around the hospital ward for hours on end. A cardio zombie George is not; instead he’s training to run the London Marathon in memory of his dead husband, and enlists Katie as his coach. What unfurls is a gleeful and heart-warming quest for self-improvement and activism in the face of impossible grief.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe greatest thespian of a generation and the most famous film star in the world meet in a rehearsal room. Both need each other deeply. Neither is willing to admit it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA charismatic crowd-pleaser with sparks of magic Nathan Queeley-Dennis’ autobiographical one-man show comes to the Jerwold Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court after a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, with direction from Dermot…
Reading Time: 2 minutesRobert Bathurst is magnificent in this Izzard-esque lock-in with a woozy, boozy journalist Jeffrey Bernard is unwell. He’s also a journalist for The Spectator. He’s also locked in a pub at 4am after passing out in the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt's impossible not to think of current political turmoil when these words are sung around you and, as always, Orwell's 1984 remains a sharp needle to dissect modern issues with.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is a clever time to re-stage the titanic fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf there was ever a show to make the case that ring lights have a direct correlation with the worsening of our generation’s mental health – this is it. Eleanor Hill’s one-woman show Sad-Vents, directed by Annie McKenzie, comes to Greenwich Theatre after pit-stops at the White Bear, VAULT and Edinburgh Fringe festivals.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is subtle cunning in Strategic Love Play, not least in its title. This is no by-the-numbers meet-cute – instead, writer Miriam Battye gives us a Play in every sense, and a razor-sharp meditation on the fuzzy gender politics of modern dating.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Disruption’ seems to be the hot-button word when depicting tech geniuses battling the establishment...