Reading Time: 3 minutesBerlin is billed as a “dark comedy […] that explores grief, toxic masculinity and betrayal.” The story, inspired in part by the suicide of Ian Curtis, is the reuniting of a once-prominent britpop band after the death of their lead singer three years earlier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 18-25 Bush Young Company promises an explosive debut, and certainly delivers. It had been a while since I’d been to such an electric piece of theatre, to a show provoking riotous laughter, pensive nods and even cheers of recognition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis performance of Puccini’s La Boheme by the English National Opera is a stunning rendition of an operatic classic.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe premise is simple, an exploration of love between a man and his best friend's alter ego, Candy the drag queen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCamden Fringe is such a great opportunity to see promising new writing talent, and Blue Balloons Pink fits the bill.
Reading Time: 4 minutesGet Up, Stand Up! is a bold musical with an extraordinarily talented cast and crew, but it is disappointingly hampered by fatal flaws in its script.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMediocre White Male is an hour-long one-man show written and directed by Will Close and Joe Von Malachowski, as part of the Boys! Boys! Boys! season at the King’s Head after runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Park Theatre.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBi Bi Baileigh is a 1 man show depicting a young veterinary student living in London. Baileigh identifies as a gay man “and proud of it” but he finds himself lonely and longing for a boyfriend.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMelissa Stephens opens with a 'borrowed' joke about being Southern Trash which immediately sets the tone of this stand up show.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the heart of The Trials, Dawn King’s urgent new play, running at the Donmar Warehouse after its 2021 premiere in Dusseldorf. The best way I can describe it is if Gen-Z did 12 Angry Men. In a future where climate change has rendered much of the world uninhabitable, children adjudicate on their parents and debate whether the self-interest of older generations led them to doom future ones.