Reading Time: 4 minutesViolinist Stella Chen joins ASMF to open the new season with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, following her widely acclaimed recent recording of the work with the orchestra. The programme includes Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, which draws on…
Reading Time: 2 minutesa play asking urgent questions about generational responsibility and the right to not feel old Originally written and performed at the Royal Court in 2016, The Children may still remain one of the best, if not the best, post-apocalypse…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhaedra Ensemble brings Meredith Monk’s instrumental world to Kings Place with the launch of Realms, a new album five years in the making that traces a journey from strings to winds to the human voice. 1. What first…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHaving won a Binge Fringe Queer Performers Award and received a dozen four and five-star reviews, Goblin is a “seriously impressive” darkly comic solo performance about growing up, obsession and the transformative power of being seen. The show has…
Reading Time: 6 minutesGlobal reggae icon Shaggy is set to co-star with Sting in the reimagined 2026 adaptation of Sting’s musical The Last Ship for just two nights at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Shaggy plays the role of the Wallsend Ferryman. The…
Reading Time: 5 minutesDisguised as a Turkish migrant worker in West Germany during the 1980s, Wallraff entered the hidden world of migrant labour for two years, experiencing and exposing the exploitation, racism and the harsh conditions faced by migrant workers.…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis high-octane new comedy from the multi-award-winning physical theatre company Voloz Collective is a irreverent, revisionist approach to one of America’s most mythologised conspiracies . Set in Roswell, New Mexico – long associated with UFO folklore –…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs someone who has lived in the UK for more than ten years but is still unable to obtain her permanent residence, I have complex feelings about Transit. On one hand, I do resonate with its painful stories of trying to ‘settle down in the UK’, and the enormous cost and devotion it demands. On the other hand however, precisely because of that resonation, this theatrical performance leaves me an impression of simply being grumpy and sulky.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDan Bishop (Brainsluts) returns with a dark comedy set in the near future, exploring the increasingly complex relationship between media, government and technology. When a hot shot new writer is pressured to write a ‘pro-weapons sitcom’, he…
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the team behind Fringe hit SPY MOVIE: The Play! comes a fast-paced state-of-the-nation farce about a crumbling library, a disgraced civil servant and an inspector nobody can identify. Clinging to tradition, strangled by red tape, and desperately…