Reading Time: 3 minutesFor kids, this is a wonderful celebration of the enduring absurdity of human nature, especially when it comes to the so-called British sensibility. It is necessary to preface that I am not the intended demographic for this…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommissioned by the Lowry as part of their Developed With programme, ‘How’s Your Head’ is the debut stand-up show from Aarian Mehrabani, performed in the Lowry’s studio ahead of his upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirkby strides on in full 90s guru dressed in a blazer and equipped with a remote cocked like a weapon, fully ready to teach the room how to dominate its destiny, or at least asking the audience, do we ever have control?
Reading Time: 2 minutesA modern take on a cult classic. This cult classic comes to stage at the Brockley Jack Theatre and is presented by the Bromley Musical Theatre Company. The theatre companies’ approach to this cult classic is essentially more meaningful than just putting…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn improvised musical by a Game Called Chat Improv, Smile It Might Never Happen is a hilarious musical show based on a particular anxiety of an audience member, which is quickly spun into a traditional musical theatre style story: A plucky character pursues their dream, and along the faces hurdles and to their happily ever after.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you read Jennette McCurdy’s acclaimed memoir I’m Glad My Mum Died and think hmm, I wish this was more unhinged? Then boy, do I have a show for you.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHoward Brenton's script, first commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, refuses the traditional biography to adapt to a ghost story.
Reading Time: 3 minutes"For You Blue: Celebrating The Beatles Greatest Hits 1967–1970" at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall was a lively, affectionate evening celebratng one of the greatest songbooks in popular music.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unapologetically traditional production that celebrates skill, discipline and beauty. Few ballets carry the weight of expectation quite like Swan Lake. More than 145 years after its premiere, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece remains the benchmark against which classical companies…
Reading Time: 3 minutesSimon Stone’s The Oresteia lays bare the trouble with dismembering – the remembering. Hell hath no fury like a mother betrayed. The Greeks understood the power of maternal lovelike no one else – not as a fuzzy,…