Reading Time: 2 minutesThe heart and humour of Michael Wynne’s dark comedy about a multi-generational Scouse family tearing at the seams is undeniable, which makes it all the most frustrating when its ending leaves the family’s unresolved issues scattered across the stage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRebecca Watson's debut novel-turned-spoken word quadrologue little scratch comes to the New Diorama Theatre from Hampstead Theatre with direction from Katie Mitchell, after adaption from Miriam Battye.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAhlam’s Women’s Prize-winning debut play You Bury Me comes to the Orange Tree after a run at Bristol Old Vic, directed by Katie Posner. It
Reading Time: 2 minutesRelationships are hard. Relationships where your partner can turn into an aviary superbeing with the ability to make you climax at will are harder.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrantic Assembly have staged this production before, in 2008 and 2014, but they bring it to the Lyric Hammersmith after a smash-hit national tour at a time when masculinity feels at its most pressured and volatile.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBarker's band is kookier than one might expect in a building as prestigious as the Royal Albert Hall. Guy Barker MBE is one of our foremost trumpet players (he backed up Wham!) and returns to RAH with his yearly festive concert, bringing an enormous band as well as a whole host of guests.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the Lyric Hammersmith's offering to the panto gods, a revamped Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly with direction from Nicholai La Barrie and choreography from Arielle Smith.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBaghdaddy is the debut play of Jasmine Naziha Jones, also playing its lead Darlee, with direction from Royal Court stalwart Millie Bhatia. It centres on British-Iraqi Darlee, piecing back fragments of her relationship with her father throughout the lead up to Britain's invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnthony Gabriele (the most conductor-looking conductor ever) leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra through Thomas Newman's score, as a part of a series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall celebrating 60 years of Bond.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPark Theatre's fledgling programme Make Mine A Double is a nifty idea, offering a double-bill of one-act shows and showing off twice the talent. Its first combo of Eliana Ostro's Anything With A Pulse and Deli Segal's Pickle is an attractive, if slightly lopsided, look into modern romance: Hinge fails, splitting the bill and unsatisfactory sex abound.