Reading Time: 3 minutesPrepped with a pink treadmill, and a running vest, ready to tell a story based upon her own life, Harriet Madeley and Crowded Room bring their brand new production Outpatient to Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre. Harriet takes a magnifying glass to our society’s obsession with death, or obsession with avoiding it - from the rise of the zombie genre to the inevitability of demise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLondon’s longest running theatre magic show is heading on tour in 2024, preparing to dazzle and astonish audiences across the country. Hosted by multi-award-winning member of the Magic Circle Oliver Tabor, each West End Magic show will continue to present a mystical line-up of phenomenal acts selected from the most exciting names in magic and variety in the UK. From daring escapes to entrancing illusions and comedy, West End Magic promises captivating performances that will have audiences questioning reality. Check out Oliver's next show here.
Reading Time: 4 minutesBased on years of meticulous research, actress and writer Vicki McKellar and Olivier Award-winning director Guy Masterson’s thriller reconstructs the last four days and immediate aftermath of the death of Marilyn Monroe. In the official version of events, she was found nude in her bed holding a telephone, but before the police were called, her doctor, psychiatrist, publicist, housekeeper, and some close friends gathered to decide how to break the news. But what led to this tragic event? A tangled web of misinformation and lies unfold and the facts and myths of the case are exposed to reveal what really happened that fateful night and why.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrought to life by Splitlip, this slick satire follows the true story of how the British MI5 tricked Hitler by using a corpse, some fake documents and lot of faith… a lot of it.
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 1997, a group of young Argentians calling themselves De La Guarda were touring an exhilarating but almost totally unclassifiable theatre show called Villa Villa throughout North America. Twenty-seven-years later, company co-founder Diqui James recalls that they were in Montreal when they discovered that they were on the front cover of Time Out London.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAcclaimed playwright and theatremaker Nick Cassenbaum and Plotnek Productions presents REVENGE: After the Levoyah - a brand new two-hander comedy-heist that romps through Jewish Essex. After the Levoyah will be showing at Summerhall during Edinburgh Fringe from 1-26 August.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDanusia Samal’s smash gig theatre hit Bangers is back with a brand new look, following five star runs at Soho Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023. Coming to London’s Arcola Theatre for three weeks this summer, Bangers is bringing the party to Dalston.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEast London Shakespeare Festival was founded by Ursula Early and Rosie Ward. They met while doing outdoor Shakespeare and now 'the wheel is come full circle' ... it is their shared enthusiasm for creating fun, accessible events in beautiful local spaces, which sparked the idea behind the birth of the East London Shakespeare Festival.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA brand-new production from Hull-based Silent Uproar, Dead Girls Rising is an angry, joyous, punk protest that doesn’t pull any punches. Written by Maureen Lennon, with music and lyrics from Anya Pearson (international punk artist featured on BBC Radio 6 Introducing ), Dead Girls Rising is an explosive exploration of what it takes to live and survive within a violent patriarchy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh presents Scotland with a brand-new feminist, queer re-examining of the epic Greek tragedy, on the Òran Mór stage from Monday 10th - Saturday 15th Jun. The world famous A Play, A Pie and A Pint presents MEDEA ON THE MIC - Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh after Euripedes, but funnier.