Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the start, it needs to be said: Tilda Swinton is impeccable. In Man to Man at the Royal Court, she gives a performance so absorbing that even when the text becomes difficult to follow, the person standing before the audience remains impossible to look away from.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Glenn Miller Orchestra brought the unmistakable sound of the swing era to the Oxford Playhouse for one night only, offering an evening of nostalgia, accomplished musicianship and feel-good entertainment. With an auditorium filled with enthusiastic Glenn Miller fans, there was a real sense of shared affection for the music, with audiences clapping along and, during the Frank Sinatra section of the evening, even joining in with the singing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA play about climate change that feels like a play about climate change We need plays about climate change. John Webber valiantly rises to the challenge with Fire Fire but gives us a rather predictable premise: the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes50 years after it’s debut, Ntozake Shange’s seminal play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, finds a home in the UK at the Yard Theatre.
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: 2 minutesA darkly delightful double bill of dance
Reading Time: 2 minutesMolière’s Tartuffe, adapted and directed by Darren Raymond in Tartuffe (Remixed), brings the classic comedy into a vibrant Nigerian household in the lead-up to a wedding.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA modern English-language take on the classic Italian opera, premiering at Wilton's Music Hall
Reading Time: 2 minutesAbir Mohammad’s piece sheds a nuanced light on queer Muslim identity at Brixton House
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Bigfoot’ feels like Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland’s biggest show yet.