Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Elizabeth Huskisson being the first playwright to be commissioned by the police, I was interested to see the kind of work she might create for an institution which has historically—and recently—been criticised as one riddled with systemic misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKindling, written by Sarah Rickman (who also stars) and directed by Emma Gersch, is a warm and frequently charming production that brings together five perimenopausal women on a mandatory camping trip.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre You There, Nancy Reagan?. A play from the collective Poisoned Well Productions, made up of East 15 graduates and North American theatrical creatives based in London. Written by Emma Freund and directed by Catherine Meiss, the play is a comical analysis of womanhood and female friendship in the 21st century.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirdwatching’ is a three-woman show set in the Northumbrian forests, which follows a group of girls in their late teens attempting a camping trip. It explores themes including folklore, neurodivergence and friendship dynamics between young women.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with producer and actor, Sarita Plowman. YOU is based on writer Mark Wilson's own adoption story - A mother waits to meet the adult son she was forced to give up for adoption when she was fifteen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Christian Dart, performer and writer of Gumshoe! Christian Dart returns with his acclaimed, smash hit, sell-out EdFringe 2025 show GUMSHOE! to SOHO Theatre. About a New York Detective embarking on his final and most ridiculous case, you can join Gumshoe as he attempts to solve the unsolvable case. Who did the whodunnit?!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence.
We need to talk about the truth
Acclaimed stage and screen actor Richard Coyle (Heads of State, Fantastic Beasts and Player Kings) returns to this iconic production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as Atticus Finch, reprising the role he played to great critical acclaim in the 2022 West End Production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis autumn, we celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary with a sparkling new stage adaptation of Emma. This witty and beloved comedy of manners is produced by the Theatre Royal Bath - the city synonymous with so many of Austen’s stories. Oxford Playhouse.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor your child to go missing - and then stay missing - is every parent’s worst nightmare. Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers tackles this knotty issue head-on, capturing a family trying to survive in the shadow of such a gaping loss. Scenes ricochet through a non-linear timeline, and occasionally bleed into one another, capturing moments from the week of Oscar’s disappearance, its one-year anniversary, and then seven years since going missing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a truly buzzing atmosphere at Soho Theatre’s Walthamstow venue on Tuesday night, ahead of Bryony Kimmings’ performance of Bog Witch.