Reading Time: 2 minutesA global best-seller for over six decades, the 1963 Cold War spy novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold has finally made it to the West End. Written by ex-spy John le Carré, this novel has been adapted for stage by David Eldridge and follows a sold out premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWriter Gayathiri Kamalakanthan's personal exploration of period parties as a queer, Tamil person is beautiful, revolutionary and joyful. First presented by Kali Theatre as a short play in 2022, this 1-hour 25-minute iteration is a triumph of heart, education, cultural appreciation and intersectionality.
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: 4 minutesInspired by Aidan Hehir’s illustrated novel, drawing on his experience of travelling from Sarajevo to Srebrenica, the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide is marked by a new theatre production that asks ‘can remembering be an act of resistance’ We sat down with Director Lara Parmiani to discuss their upcoming production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter what author Michael Morpurgo aptly termed a “pandemic pause,” War Horse has returned to the UK stage with renewed urgency and emotional relevance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the Oxford Playhouse for The Party Girls, I had no prior knowledge of the Mitford sisters, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I found was a piece of theatre that was visually slick, tightly performed, and thematically challenging in all the right ways.
Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…
Reading Time: 2 minutesa wonderful showcase of talent, both known and emerging
Reading Time: 3 minutesWandering about between Moscow and New York
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe brand-new tour of the National Theatre’s War Horse is coming to Newcastle Theatre Royal for the first time later this month (Wed 10 – Sat 20 Sep 2025). Sir Michael Morpurgo, whose acclaimed novel inspired the smash-hit production, is in the hot seat.