Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an era when West End productions increasingly rely on film and TV stars to guarantee ticket sales, Sing Street—a beloved film adaptation and Broadway transfer—sounds like another safe bet. Yet, the Lyric Hammersmith’s production crackles with such vitality that it doesn’t just entertain; it ignites. This is theatre at its most alive.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe First Night of the BBC Proms was suitably majestic. The room pulsated with respect and anticipation; as the orchestra prepared to strum and string (and all the other things they do), the reverential silence was palpable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Beyond Broadway Experience’s Footloose bursts onto the Festival Theatre stage with youthful energy and striking polish. With performers aged 8 to 25, this ambitious production showcases the next generation of musical theatre talent under the expert guidance of a professional creative team.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis three-part play encapsulating the events surrounding a one-woman show at a pub theatre is not only self-aware of its setting in the most delightful of ways; it also becomes a sort of love letter to pub theatre generally that speaks directly and intelligently from a heart that both knows and wishes it well.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a beautiful, warm evening, there’s really no better setting for Shakespeare than at the Oxford Castle.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Possibility is a bold new work for the theatre by Dutch artist Germaine Kruip that explores the possibilities—and limitations—of perception, sound, and performance. This is not a play in the traditional sense; rather, it is a sculptural and sonic experience that challenges how we see, hear, and feel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThough Songs of the Bulbul is primarily inspired by Sufic art, particularly its music and poetry, it is also a deeply personal work created in memory of Odedra’s late mother.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs far as accessible and outdoorsy Early Modern comedies go, As You Like It is a pretty intuitive candidate. A split setting between town and woods allows East London Shakespeare Festival to make clever use of not only their parkland surroundings, but also the facade of Clissold House in Stoke Newington – a building whose period brickwork and Victorian austerity all but meld into the show’s own set-pieces.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor nearly two hours, with no set and no props, Masterson paints an entire Welsh village into existence.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis show is a 1 hour love letter to Europe without sycophancy. It explores the notion, so familiar to a lot of us, that we can often feel culturally within and without. What does it mean to be “from” somewhere anyway? It’s like if Agnѐs Varda poppedinto the passport office: bureaucracy, but make it art.